YONIP Sovereignty & Peace Articles Archive

The truth about US basing and involvement in combat is emerging; the time to act is now.

(posted Mar. 03rd 2008)

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Mindanao Peoples’ Manifesto Against U.S. Intervention 2008 (posted Mar. 02nd 2008)

US Troops, Out Now! Oust Gloria Arroyo! (posted Mar. 02nd 2008)

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STATEMENT AGAINST BALIKATAN EXERCISES IN MINDANAO (posted Mar. 02nd 2008)

Alumni, Congressional Internship Program for Young Muslim Leaders –
Advocacy for the Advancement and Development of Mindanao (posted Feb. 19th 2008)

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RANAW CRESCENT AGAINST BALIKATAN EXCERCISES (RACABE) (posted Feb. 19th 2008)

SOCSKSARGEN UNDER SIEGE!

A hundred years after the heinous massacre of thousands of Moros in the battles of Bud Dahu and Bud Bagsak by invading American colonial forces, the people of Socsksargen now face a similarly ominous situation. (Feb 19th 2008)

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Special Report by Focus on the Global South - on US Troops in the Philippines.

The regular Balikatan exercises for the first quarter of 2008 will start on February 18 (posted Oct. 19th 2007)

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The New US Basing Structure in the Philippines - By Herbert Docena (posted Oct. 19th 2007)

Anti-War Coalition Demands Independent Investigation, Constant Monitoring: US AMBASSADOR'S LIES ABOUT US BASES IN MINDA MERIT PROBE (posted Sept. 17th 2007)

ARROYO GOV'T URGED TO VERIFY ALLEGED CONSTRUCTION OF US MILITARY
FACILITIES IN MINDANAO (posted Sept. 17th 2007)

US Military Bases in Mindanao Unconstitutional, Dangerous (posted Sept. 17th 2007)

In reaction to VFA Commission’s statement, international think-tank
asks: WHY IS THE PHILIPPINES LISTED AS DEVELOPING US BASES IN OFFICIAL US
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS? (posted Sept. 17th 2007)

US troops have set up a new kind of US base in Mindanao? (posted Sept. 11th 2007)

Secret Australia-Philippines Visiting Forces Agreement (2007) (posted June 13th 2007)

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PHILIPPINE FOREIGN POLICY AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST: CONTEXTUALIZING THE SUBIC RAPE CASE AND THE VISITING FORCES AGREEMENT (VFA) by Roland G. Simbulan, Professor and Faculty Regent, U.P. System (posted Jan 24th 2007)

PAGSUSURI NG MGA KRITIKAL NA ISYU SA PATAKARANG PANLABAS AT PANSEGURIDAD NG PILIPINAS:TUNGO SA PAGHUSGA SA VISITING FORCES AGREEMENT - ni Roland G. Simbulan Propesor sa Development Studies at Public Managementat Faculty Regent, University of the Philippines (posted Apr 10th 2006)

STATEMENT BY THE PHILIPPINE WORKING GROUP AGAINST MILITARISM
on the reported rape of Filipino women by US military personnel. (posted Nov. 15th 2005)

ARREST Gloria Condemns U.S. Marines' Rape of Filipina in Subic. (posted Nov. 15th 2005)

CODAL Counsels for the Defense of Liberties . (posted Nov. 15th 2005)

New Zealand Should Have Nothing To Do With Philippine Military . (posted Nov. 10th 2005)

REARRANGING THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION IN THE PHILIPPINES AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC: RESISTANCE AND SOLIDARITY . (posted Nov. 10th 2005)

STATEMENT OF WOMEN’S GROUPS ON THE RAPE COMMITTED BY SIX U.S. SERVICEMEN . (posted Nov. 10th 2005)

[nousbases] Websites of FORMER US bases in the Philippines . (posted Apr. 28th 2004)

"The Philippine SOFA and the State of the Philippine-US security relations” . (posted Feb 3 2004)

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON USA MILITARY BASES PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS AND MAKING A PEACEFUL URBAN LIFE . (posted Feb 3 2004)

A Letter of Subservience and Surrender of Philippine Sovereignty to Foreign Military Forces. (posted 1o July 2003)

THE UNITED STATES IN THE PHILIPPINES by Larry Chin. A six-part series
The United States in the Philippines: post-9/11 imperatives by Larry Chin. (posted 13 April 2003)

YANKEE DOODLE GOES TO WAR by Joi Barrios, Member, Congress of Teachers for Nationalism and Democracy, Philippines. (posted Feb 25th 2003)

EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN FORMER SENATE PRESIDENT JOVITO SALONGA AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS SECRETARY BLAS OPLE ON THE ISSUE OF MLSA - As the U.S. stands ready to wage war against Iraq, Filipino leaders can no longer ignore the need to define and clarify the role that the Philippines ought to play in that event. Last Dec. 2002, former Senate President Jovito Salonga, who in 1991 led the Senate in rejecting the continued stay of the US military bases in the country, wrote Foreign Affairs Secretary Blas Ople. Salonga proposed that US Ambassador Francis Ricciardone put down in writing, through a formal exchange of notes, his statement that the US does not want or need to have bases in the Philippines. What follows is the exchange of communication between Salonga and Ople. (posted Feb 11th 2003)

UNDERSTANDING SOME ASPECTS OF PHILIPPINE-U.S. RELATIONS IN THIS SEASON OF PEACE AND GOODWILL by Jovito R. Salonga, Former Senate President and Former President, Liberal Party. (posted Jan 26th 2003)

NO MORE LIES: ON THE CONTINUED PRESENCE OF U.S. TROOPS IN THE PHILIPPINES - Privilege Speech by Rep. Satur C. Ocampo, Bayan Muna, Party List, House of Representatives, Congress of the Philippines, August 5, 2002.

DISSENTING OPINION OF PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, REYNALDO PUNO, ON VISITING FORCES AGREEMENT.

BASILAN PROVINCIAL BOARD RESOLUTION OPPOSING BALIKATAN EXERCISES. Excerpt from the minutes of the Regular Session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng Basilan, held at the Session Hall of the Honorable Body, Capitol Building, Isabela, Basilan on February 6, 2002.

THE RETURN OF G.I. JOE by Dr. Francisco Nemenzo, Jr., President, University of the Philippines. This article was originally published in the Sept. 28. 2002 issue of FORUM, the official community newspaper of the University of the Philippines System.

FINAL RP-US-01 -- THE MUTUAL LOGISTICS SUPPORT AGREEMENT (MLSA) -- Between the Department of National Defense, Republic of the Philippines and the Department of Defense of the United States of America.

SUPREME COURT PETITION ON THE VISITING FORCES AGREEMENT (1999)

THE MUTUAL DEFENSE TREATY BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Signed 1951, this is considered the "mother treaty" of the VFA and the MLSA.

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO THE PHILIPPINES. Signed at Manila, March 21, 1947. The RP-US Military Assistance Agreement (1947) was the sister agreement to the RP-US Military Bases Agreement (1947). It created the Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group (JUSMAG), a contingent of US military advisers permanently deployed in the Philippines and whose work is focused facilitating the logistical & training requirements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines for counter-insurgency/internal warfare. JUSMAG and this Military Assistance Agreement are jointly responsible as to why after more than 40 years of special relations, the Philippines does not yet have an external defense capability. It may now be considered as the sister agreement to the 1999 Visiting Forces Agreement since the RP-US Military Bases Agreement is now defunct.

UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT, DR. FRANCISCO NEMENZO, JR. ON THE BALIKATAN EXERCISES -- Excerpts from his Commencement Address, titled "The World that Awaits the New Graduates" , U.P. Diliman, April 21, 2002.

U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION IN THE PHILIPPINES: A NEW PHASE by ROLAND G. SIMBULAN

WOMEN AND U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE. Briefing Paper prepared by the KAISA-KA or PAGKAISA NG KABABAIHAN PARA SA INANG BAYAN (Unity of Women for the Motherland), March 8, 2002.

THE PHILIPPINES AND THE U.S. HEGEMONIC THRUST AND WARS OF INTERVENTION AND AGGRESSION BY CONGRESSMAN CRISPIN BELTRAN. Keynote address before the Founding Assembly and Launching of (International League for People's Struggles) ILPS-Philippines, August 1, 2002, Miriam College, Q.C.

“ALL-OUT WAR,” “ALL-OUT RESISTANCE,” “ALL-OUT PEACE BY SOLIMAN M. SANTOS, JR.

THE PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE AGAINST FOREIGN MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE PHILIPPINES BY DANILO P. VIZMANOS. Speech delivered before the Conference on U.S. Military Bases hosted by Korean Anti-US Bases organizations. Vimanos, currently the military consultant of the Nuclear Free-Philippines Coalition, and Convenor of the Junk VFA Movement is a retired Philippine Navy Captain, former Chief of Staff of the Philippine Coast Guard and former Inspector General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

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