The Rise of Populist Authoritarianisms in Asia
In many countries in Asia, new forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In the Philippines,...
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Author (Category): Herbert Docena
The Real Divisions Over Climate Change
By Herbert DocenaHerbert is a former staff member of Focus. He is in Paris monitoring the...
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Unconventional Warfare: Are US Special Forces Engaged in an ‘Offensive War’ in the Philippines?
Five years after the initial deployment, this report gathers the available information and...
Read MoreCory after death
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 MorePolitics failed our constitution
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 MoreThe Philippines and Israel : a history of complicity, an imperative for action
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 More“UNA PRESENCIA ACEPTABLE”: LA NUEVA ESTRUCTURA DE BASES MILITARES ESTADOUNIDENSES EN FILIPINAS
[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...
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At the door to all the East
‘At the Door of all the East’: The Philippines in United States Military Strategy This...
Read MoreAn Anti-Bases Network Finds its Base
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 MoreThe jumpy ladies of Lebanon
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 MoreIn Beirut, jubilation and trepidation
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 MoreAT THE RECEIVING END OF ISRAEL’S ‘COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT’
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 MoreTEMPORADA DE EXTERMINIO EN FILIPINAS
[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 MoreKilling season in the 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 MoreLAS TROPAS ESTADOUNIDENSES EN SULU: ¿VOLVIÓ LA BRIGADA WOOD?
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...
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