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17Jan

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Rise Up confronts Duterte’s war on the poor in the Philippines

NOVANEWS By Danny Shaw “My son Djastin Lopez didn’t deserve to die. He was twenty-five with two beautiful children, Jailo & Quiana. He was a basketball player and a craftsman. When the police ambushed him right over there by those train tracks, his hands were up. He surrendered but the police slapped him first before riddling his body with bullets. While he was still breathing, they fired the coup de grace. These alleyways where we live in Tondo are ground zero of the war on us poor Filipinos. The police ambushed my son, intent upon killing him. We were victims but today thanks to Rise Up we are advocates for life & organizers against Duterte’s extrajudicial killings (EJK’s).” –Normita, founding member of Rise Up Rise up for Life and for Rights is a coalition of families whos...

22Dec

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Duterte’s Scheme of Fascist Dictatorship

NOVANEWS By: Professor Jose Maria Sison Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte | Photo: Reuters. By his pseudo-independent foreign policy, Duterte is trying to turn the Philippines into a condominium of the imperialist powers. The Negotiating Panels of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) were poised to hold the fifth round of formal peace talks in Oslo when GRP President Duterte went into a daily series of anti-communist rants from November 18, 2017 onwards and subsequently issued Proclamation 360 to terminate the peace negotiations with the NDFP and Proclamation 374 to designate the Communist of the Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People´s Army (NPA), their suspected supporte...

28Oct

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Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s Embrace of Duterte’s Deadly War on Drugs in the Philippines

NOVANEWS Watch Full Show Listen Media Options GUESTS Jeremy Scahill co-founder of The Intercept and host of the new weekly podcast, Intercepted. LINKS "A Call With A Killer" (The Intercept) Read the Trump-Duterte Call Transcript In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has suggested he might impose martial law across the country, after declaring it this week in his native island of Mindanao. This comes as a transcript of the call of Trump praising Duterte for his controversial drug war was leaked and published by The Intercept. According to the leaked transcript, Trump said, “I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem. Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, bu...

9Aug

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Philippine President Wants North Korea to Become ASEAN Dialogue Partner

NOVANEWS Sputnik Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed on Tuesday his desire to invite North Korea to become a dialogue partner of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). “You know, I always wanted to invite you here,” Duterte, who is a also chairperson of ASEAN in 2017, told North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, as quoted by the SunStar media outlet. The Philippine president added that North Korea “would be a good dialogue partner.” Ri reportedly thanked Duterte for the initiative. The statement was made less than a week after Duterte criticized North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions. ASEAN has 10 dialogue partners, which are India, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Russia, the United States, the European Union, Australia, Canada...

8Aug

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Philippines DENIES reports that US may intervene in Marawi against ISIS

NOVANEWS By Adam Garrie Defence officials in Philippines deny reports from the United States that American military contingents are examining the possibility of a military intervention in the country due to the war with ISIS aligned terrorists and other insurgents on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and specifically the besieged city of Marawi. US based NBC news earlier reported that Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis stated that the US will shortly make an announcement on whether US bombers will commence military strikes in Philippines. This recent development would imply that the US is considering and indeed may be planning a strike on targets in Philippines that may be illegal according to international law. Sputnik reports, “According to Philippine Star media outlet, the...

26Jul

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Philippines urges US to return church bells

NOVANEWS Press TV Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has demanded the United States return church bells seized by American forces in a bloody campaign more than a century ago, in another blast at his country’s traditional ally. American forces took three bells from the Catholic church of Balangiga town on the eastern island of Samar in 1901 as war booty in what historians said was a particularly brutal military operation in the new US colony. “Give us back those Balangiga bells. They are not yours. They are ours. They belong to the Philippines. They are part of our national heritage,” Duterte said at his annual State of the Nation Address on Monday. “Those bells are reminders of the gallantry and heroism of our forebears who resisted the American colonizers and sacrificed their liv...

29May

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ISIS Touches Down in the Philippines

NOVANEWS By Tony Cartalucci | New Eastern Outlook Mayhem broke out across the southern Philippine city of Marawi where militants besieged it and hoisted flags of the so-called “Islamic State.” Located on the southern island of Mindanao, the city is only slightly removed from Al Qaeda affiliate Abu Sayaff’s primary area of operation on nearby Jolo and Basilan islands. The UK Independent in an article titled, “Isis-linked militants take priest and churchgoers hostage in Philippines,” would report: President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in the south because of the militants’ siege on the city on Tuesday and abandoned a trip to Russia to deal with the crisis. Mr Duterte vowed to place southern Mindanao island, where Marawi is situated, and its 22 million residents under military ru...

17Feb

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Philippine Environment Minister Continues Mining Crackdown

NOVANEWS Philippine Environment Secretary Regina Lopez during a press briefing in Manila, Philippines February 9, 2017. | Photo: Reuters Environment minister Lopez said it was within her discretion "to decide on the resources of the country." The Philippines' environment minister stepped up a crackdown on mining on Tuesday, cancelling almost a third of the country's contracts for undeveloped mines and rejecting any challenges to earlier orders to shut more than half of all operating pits. The move turns up the heat in her battle with the mining sector after she ordered the closure of 23 of the country's 41 mines earlier this month on environmental grounds, causing an outcry from the industry and threats of legal action. The latest 75 contracts, which cover project...

7Feb

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Philippines’ Duterte Ends Peace Talks with Maoist Rebels

NOVANEWS Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a late night news conference at the presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 29, 2017. | Photo: Reuters The move ends 27 years of peace negotiations that sought to end an armed conflict that has killed about 30,000 people. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte shut down peace talks with communist insurgents from the National Democratic Front of the Philippines after both the government and the rebels called off unilateral ceasefires aimed at ending a decades-long conflict. RELATED: The Incomplete ‘People Power’ Revolution Boosted Duterte's Rise The move ends 27 years of peace negotiations that sought to end an armed conflict that has killed about 30,000 people since a popular insurgency in the Philip...

17Jan

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Philippines’ Duterte Hints He May Impose Martial Law over Drugs

NOVANEWS President Rodrigo Duterte speaks at Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga, Philippines, Dec. 22, 2016. | Photo: Reuters. Last month, Duterte appeared to rule out any possibility he might declare martial law. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he would impose martial law if the drug problem became "very virulent," just a month after dismissing as "nonsense" any suggestion he might do so. Duterte has made a brutal war on drugs a central pillar of his administration since he took office in the middle of last year. Since July, more than 6,000 people have been killed in the anti-drug campaign, in both police operations and unexplained killings by suspected "vigilantes." More than 1 million drug peddlers and users have been arrested or have surrendered to a...