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The horror of Haiti: What the press coverage tells US It is relentless, the pictures of terror-stricken people, broken limbs, and bloated dead, and many of us cannot stand to see or hear more. One has to ask: what are we to do with such information?

News

Media victims’ widows file complaint vs Cayton, Geslani at Ombudsman's office Davao City (MindaNews/Jan, 20) - The widows of media victims in the Ampatuan Massacre of Nov. 23 trooped to the Office of the Ombudsman Mindanao Tuesday to file charges against two top officers of the Philippine Army.

Features

Mind your tweets: CIA and European Union building social networking surveillance system That social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché.

Viewpoints

Misunderestimating the Philippine Left The Left is ridiculed for behaving like a religious cult. It’s not a new accusation. It’s often raised by writers and academics every time they want to attack the politics of the Left. The intention is to mock the “fanatical attitude” of leftists. But this reasoning has lost the power to insult.

Readings

Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable The problem newspapers face isn't that they didn't see the internet coming. They not only saw it miles off, they figured out early on that they needed a plan to deal with it, and during the early 90s they came up with not just one plan but several.

Mediawatch

Fort Hood & the perversion of language: 'The shooter was a soldier' It takes no leap of imagination to understand this act as a predictable outcome of criminal wars of aggression, torture, and indifference to the slaughter and displacement of foreign peoples under the guise of freedom, democracy, and the market.

Solidarity

Rebellion (Denmark) spokesman on trial for terror support Patrick Mac Manus took the stand in Copenhagen City Court, Dec. 3, charged with extending and encouraging economic support to “terrorist organizations” Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).

Nation

Arroyo regime crowns its rule of state terror with barbaric show Symptoms of a failed state? Or just ordinary election-related incidents in a US neocolony? Abuse of power by the Ampatuans cannot be checked by the Arroyo regime whose existence owes its illegitimacy to the electoral frauds in Maguindanao and ARRM territory of the Ampatuans.

Focus

CPA pioneer receives international recognition for protection of indigenous peoples' rights Baguio City - Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) founding member and pioneer Mother Petra Macliing, was chosen as one of the awardees of Women’s World Summit Foundation’s (WSSF) Laureate Prize for Rural Women.

Analysis

Signs of impunity and desperation Impunity and desperation in a murderous, corrupt, and undemocratic regime is a dangerous combination. It brings back memories of Martial Law. It would then not be surprising that if the Arroyo government fails in its Cha Cha bid, it would resort to massive cheating during the 2010 elections.

Opinion

Ampatuan Massacre raises level of barbarity in Philippine politics If the perpetrators of more than a thousand extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of political activists could walk scot-free, perhaps, the Ampatuan clan thought, they could get away with killing less than a hundred people.

Statements

The structure of reactionary violence and human rights violations in the Philippines The International Coordinating Committee and all member-organizations of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) condemn with all their moral conviction and strength the monstrous massacre of at least 57 people.

World

Italy/US: Ruling expected in historic CIA rendition case Milan - The verdict expected Wednesday in a landmark case may present a historic legal challenge to the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) rendition program, Human Rights Watch said today.

Human Rights

US Congress withholds military aid to the Philippines due to human rights abuses The US House resolution also states that the Armed Forces of the Philippines must not have ‘a policy of, and are not engaging in, acts of intimidation or violence against members of legal organizations who advocate for human rights.’

Antonio Zumel

Stop killing journalists! Justice for the victims of the Maguindanao massacre! The Antonio Zumel Center for Press Freedom joins the families and colleagues of the victims of the 23rd November Maguindanao massacre in mourning their senseless and violent deaths, and in condemning in the strongest terms the masterminds and perpetrators of this demonic act.

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'State of denial'

"State of denial" is Australian Broadcasting Corporation's video report on the political killings in the Philippines. Bangkok-based correspondent Karen Percy highlights the story of two University of the Philippines students - Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan - who on June 26 last year were abducted by armed men believed to be under the command of recently retired Major-General Jovito "The Butcher" Palparan. ABC aired this feature last May 15.

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