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"Talk
about war being 'hell,' this war beats the hottest
estimate ever made of that locality. Caloocan was
supposed to contain seventeen thousand inhabitants. The
Twentieth Kansas swept through it, and now Caloocan
contains not one living native. Of the buildings, the
battered walls of the great church and dismal prison
alone remain. The village of Maypaja, where our first
fight occurred on the night of the fourth, had five
thousand people on that day, -- now not one stone
remains upon top of another. You can only faintly
imagine this terrible scene of desolation. War is worse
than hell." Captain Elliott, of the Kansas
Regiment, February 27th 1899
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Photos Section /
The Philippine-American War
To this day, the U.S.
Empire shows a complete disregard of
Philippine sovereignty and to its people and
its laws. The Philippines had just won its
independence from Spain and established its
constitutional government, when it was
invaded, colonized and occupied by almost
126,000 foreign troops -- the first U.S.
Visiting Forces. This act of aggression was
again repeated in Vietnam, Iraq and
Afghanistan, and the U.S. continues to
undermine other smaller nations to extend
its military power while expanding the
economic empire for EXXON.
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For the
Desaparecidos and the Victims of EJK
By Loujaye Sonido
(videos) 8:48 min.
This actually just
started out as a silent slideshow put together as a visual
backdrop for a medley that was performed in the COLAP
(Conference of Lawyers in the Asia Pacific) conducted last
September 19, 2010 in MOA SMX, to signify solidarity with the
lawyers and other freedom fighters who struggle against the many
forms of injustice, violence, and oppression in so many parts of
the world. This video is a visual disambiguation of the issues
on extra-judicial killings and desaparecidos so rampant and yet
so unknown to so many people in the Philippines. It is a tribute
to those who died in the pursuit for true freedom and democracy;
it is call to those who, until now, have been blind and deaf to
these realities -- to know and to act to end these kinds of
injustices. VOCALS: Roselle Pineda, Joel Garduce, Jasmine
Icasiano, Walkie Mirana, Karl Ramirez GUITARS: Karl Ramirez,
Tony Palis ELECTRIC DRUMS AND VIDEO EDITING: Loujaye Sonido The
audio is a rough recording of the medley stolen during the
rehearsals. Pardon the quality
(Note to Firefox users, if you do not have the flash video
plugin installed you will not see the video.)
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Latest Articles - New on Yonip
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IBON Infographic/ April 2012 US Military Operations in the
Philippines, 2001-2011 (posted
Apr 19th 2012) |
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Deadly drones come
to the Muslims of the Philippines (posted Apr. 9th 2012) |
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WHAT U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES ARE
DOING IN OUR COUNTRY IS ALREADY A MATTER OF GREAT CONCERN
by Roland Simbulan (Volume 79 2012) |
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Transparency
Must Extend to Foreign Affairs - Preliminary Statement of
Rep. Walden Bello (posted Mar 5th 2012) |
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Railroading a Rate Increase - by Daphne
Cardillo (posted Mar 5th 2012) |
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Scrap VFA! Movement's Statement on
Additional Troops and Expanded Use of Phil Territor
(posted Feb 21st 2012) |
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The US Already Has a Base in the
Philippines by Herbert Docena (posted Feb 14th 2012) |
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Declaration of
Social Movements Assembly Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
(posted Feb 9th 2012) |
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Ensure Philippine sovereignty,
investigate recent developments in US-RP relations Privilege
Speech of Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello (posted Feb 9th 2012) |
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U.S. deployment of nuclear weapons in the Philippines as
part of U.S. military presence (posted Feb 4th 2012) |
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US BASES FACTS AND ISSUES: C-C must
tackle issue and people told the facts. Prepared jointly by
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INSTITUTE OF THE PHILIPPINES,
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LAW COMPLEX, UP MANILA COLLEGE
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, DIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, THIRD
WORLD MOVEMENT AGAINTS THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN (Part
1) (Jan 28th 2012) |
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The American View on the bases in RP US
presence important BY UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE
(Jan 28th 2012) |
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Proposals for a Nationalist and
Democratic Constitution (Jan 28th 2012) |
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Assessing Tani in a frame of our struggles By PROFESSOR
RENATO CONSTANTINO (Jan 28th 2012) |
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Primary Resource Person is
Roland G. Simbulan, Full Professor
and former Vice Chancellor of the University of the Philippines. Roland
was elected Faculty Regent, U.P. System on November 2005. As Faculty
Regent, he represented the 3,600 faculty members of the University in
the U.P. Board of Regents, the highest policy making body of the
University of the Philippines System. He is a specialist on
Philippine-U.S. security relations, Philippine foreign policy, U.S.
bases and U.S. military intervention, and U.S. neo-colonial policies in
the Philippines. Simbulan is a 2008 University of the Philippines
Centennial Professorial Chair Awardee.
See Full
Profile
Professor Roland
Simbulan
launched a new book (December 5th 2009) that is directly related to the
subject matter of our website.
The book is called "Forging
a Nationalist Foreign Policy"
As webmaster of YONIP, I would highly recommend reading this book
as it will advance your knowledge in regards to sovereignty and
independence issues of the Philippines.
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Click to enlarge
U.S. tank intrudes into Philippine village
during Balikatan war exercises
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