As usual, I am cyber-commuting. I am currently in Vegas, in the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino Hotel to be exact, to attend the 13th meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) study group on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Asia Pacific which starts tomorrow [...]
Archive for the ‘Arab people power’ Category
Our leader…Gaddafi…our killer!
Posted: February 21, 2011 in Arab people power, Benghazi, Gaddafi, Libya, Tripoli0
Where’s the Egyptian embassy in Makati?
Posted: February 12, 2011 in Arab people power, Egypt, Hosni MubarakLast 31 January, I, together with my graduate students in International Political Economy (IPE) at the University of the Philippines, tried to deliver a letter to the Egyptian Embassy in the Philippines. The letter expressed our solidarity with the Egyptians struggling for freedom and human dignity and our concern on the violent police crackdown on [...]
Viva Egypt! Viva Bouazizi! Viva the Egyptian 300+!
Posted: February 12, 2011 in April 6 Youth Movement, Arab people power, Barack Obama, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Jordan, Kefaya, Muslim Brotherhood, Non-violent politics, People power, Tahrir Square, Tunisia, YemenViva Egypt! After 18 days of non-stop, non-violent protests, marches, and general strikes, former air force general and supreme leader of Egypt for the last 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, skedaddles to a Sinai peninsula resort town while his designated VP Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak has resigned as Egypt’s president. The chairman of the Grand [...]
body politics, ver. 1.2
Posted: February 4, 2011 in Arab people power, Arlo Mendoza, Body politics, Corruption, Corruption in the military, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Jordan, Mocha Girls, Mocha Uson, Non-violent politics, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, People power, PETA, PPSA, Tweet, Twitter, Vene Rallonza, YemenIn December last year, a humiliated fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, burned himself and sparked what is now known as the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia that sent long-entrenched dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, his family and cronies packing their bags and ill-gotten loot and skedaddling to Saudi Arabia and to parts unknown after that. And Tunisia proved to be the [...]
