The Rise of Populist Authoritarianisms in Asia
In many countries in Asia, new forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In the Philippines,...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jan 24, 2018 | Asia/World, Power and Democracy, Publications, Social Movements
In many countries in Asia, new forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In the Philippines,...
Read MorePosted by admin | Dec 9, 2015 | Climate & Environment
By Herbert DocenaHerbert is a former staff member of Focus. He is in Paris monitoring the...
Read MorePosted by admin | Sep 16, 2011 | Power and Democracy, Publications
Five years after the initial deployment, this report gathers the available information and...
Read MorePosted by admin | Aug 5, 2009 | Philippines, Power and Democracy
by Herbert Docena* Funerals are not so much for the dead as for us who have to go on living. The dead have passed on; they can no longer hear us weeping. It is we—we who must scatter the flowers over their graves—who have to be...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jun 27, 2009 | Philippines, The Commons
by Jenina Joy Chavez, Julie delos Reyes, Herbert Docena, Aya Fabros, Mary Lou Malig, Mary Ann Manahan, Cathy Ordona, Qiqo Punzalan Simbol, Joseph Purugganan, Lourdes Torres and Walden Bello/ Focus on the Global South Philippines...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jan 14, 2009 | Philippines, Power and Democracy
By Herbert Docena In 1947, the future of the Middle East stood before a vote at the United Nations General Assembly. The British empire had earlier expressed support for a Jewish “national home” in colonized Palestine,...
Read MorePosted by admin | Nov 23, 2007 | 1Post Types, Español
[English ] por Herbert Docena * Hace dieciséis años, el Senado Filipino decidió en una votación histórica el cierre de las bases militares que los analistas describieron en algún momento como “el complejo de...
Read MorePosted by admin | Nov 22, 2007 | Power and Democracy, Publications
‘At the Door of all the East’: The Philippines in United States Military Strategy This...
Read MorePosted by admin | Mar 19, 2007 | Peace and Security, Power and Democracy
The consolidation of an international network for the abolition of foreign military bases marks an important advance for the global peace and justice movement BY Herbert Docena 14 March 2007 On the perimeter fence of the...
Read MorePosted by admin | Aug 31, 2006 | Power and Democracy
By Herbert Docena* Treated like modern-day slaves, Filipina domestic workers in Lebanon have jumped off buildings to escape from Israeli bombs and abusive Lebanese employers. BEIRUT, August 2006: Miramar Flores stood on the...
Read MorePosted by admin | Aug 15, 2006 | Power and Democracy
By Herbert Docena* BEIRUT (August 14) – Hussein Choumer hangs around one corner in the district of Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Around him are mountains of rubble, the remains of over 100 mostly...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jul 18, 2006 | Opinion/Analysis, Peace and Security, Power and Democracy
Filipino Workers in the Middle East:AT THE RECEIVING END OF ISRAEL’S ‘COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT’ The best evacuation plan for trapped Filipino workers in Lebanon is for the Philippine government to demand that...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jun 16, 2006 | Español, Opinion/Analysis
[English] Herbert Docena * MANILA, 1 de junio de 2006- La activista política Cathy Alcantara fue muerta a tiros por asaltantes no identificados el 5 de diciembre del año pasado, en las afueras del local donde había ayudado a...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jun 2, 2006 | Opinion/Analysis, Philippines
[Espanõl] By Herbert Docena MANILA – Political activist Cathy Alcantara was gunned down by unidentified assailants last December 5, outside the resort where she had helped to organize a conference on farmers’ rights....
Read MorePosted by admin | Mar 15, 2006 | Español, Opinion/Analysis
por Herbert Docena* Con apenas 700 metros de altura, la montaña llamada Bud Dahu se yergue amenazante en el interior de la isla como una memoria distante, visible desde prácticamente todo el territorio de la isla de Sulu en el...
Read MorePosted by admin | Mar 15, 2006 | Español, Opinion/Analysis
por Herbert Docena* El 23 de febrero, el mismo día en que los filipinos iban a conmemorar el 20 aniversario del levantamiento del “Poder Popular” que terminó con la dictadura de Ferdinand Marcos, se produjo el...
Read MorePosted by admin | Mar 9, 2006 | Peace and Security, Power and Democracy
By Herbert DocenaSULU, PHILIPPINES: Around 5,500 United States soldiers are coming to the Philippines this February, the latest and reportedly the largest batch in the continuing and uninterrupted deployment of US troops to the...
Read MorePosted by admin | Mar 6, 2006 | 1Post Types, Peace and Security
By Herbert Docena Rising just 700 meters high from the interior but visible from most parts of the island, the mountain called Bud Dahu looms like a distant memory over the island of Sulu in the southern Philippines. Once...
Read MorePosted by admin | Mar 3, 2006 | Opinion/Analysis, Philippines
By Herbert Docena MANILA – ON THE VERY DAY WHEN FILIPINOS were to mark the 20th anniversary of the ‘People Power’ uprising which ended Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship, Marcos-style dictatorship sprang a...
Read MorePosted by admin | Feb 25, 2006 | 1Post Types
Herbert Docena delivers the keynote address at the world Tribunal On Iraq.Watch it on freespeech.org >>>
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