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Argentina Responds to Supreme Court with Debt Swap Plan: Global Consequences of Court Ruling Remain Intact

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:24:39 +0000

In reaction to an adverse Supreme Court ruling against Argentina, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that Argentina would offer new bonds to its creditors governed under Argentine law. The proposed debt swap would involve the 92% of the country's creditors that agreed to restructure in the wake of the country's 2001 default. While the debt swap proposes an alternative for the South American country to avoid paying hold-outs, it fails to reverse the global implications on debt markets, debt restructuring and financial stability.

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On the Status of Visiting Forces Agreement with Australia

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:34:40 +0000

The Philippine-Australia military agreement, known as the Status of the Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA), which was poised to be ratified by the Philippine senate on June 6, has now been postponed until late July for final ratification. The SOVFA will enable Australian troops to conduct military exercises and other related activities in the Philippines. The SOVFA, as with the US Visiting Forces Agreement, sets the guidelines for the treatment of visiting Australian troops. The SoVFA was signed in Canberra in May 2007.

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Spratly Islands dispute: Unity statement

Anonymous — Sun, 27 May 2012 11:00:29 +0000

UNITED VOICES OF CONCERN (Amidst the sounds of fury over the Southeast Asian Sea)

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Filipino women march against US military expansion in the Philippines and the Pacific

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:44:27 +0000

Unity Statement, March 8, 2012

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2012, we, Filipino women declare in strongest terms possible, our opposition not only to increased presence but to U.S. military presence per se on Philippine soil.

The United States is increasing its military presence in Asia-Pacific, in particular in the Philippines, and the Philippine government is showing no qualms in allowing this to happen.

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PLM statement on increased US military presence in the Philippines

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:33:39 +0000

PLM Calls for an Independent Foreign Policy and a Non-Aligned ASEAN

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Wall Street excess and Main Street distress: the Apple connection

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:53:44 +0000

By Walden Bello

Apple’s march to market supremacy has been accomplished at tremendous cost to both American and Chinese workers

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No to US and Chinese expansionism

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:55:36 +0000

PHILIPPINES: Akbayan Party condemns plans for increased United States military presence in the country amid burgeoning Chinese military expansionism. We believe these acts by the two superpowers will inevitably destabilize the West Philippine Sea and Southeast Asian region.

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Philippines Anti-Bases Movement: Time to Assert National Sovereignty Once Again

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:53:42 +0000

With pride as a people, we commemorate a historic national event this coming September 16, the rejection of the US military bases twenty years ago

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Wake Up - Uranium mining in Australia to increase

United Natures — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:34:52 +0000

Wake Up - Uranium mining in Australia to increase

Documentary filmmaker David Bradbury's Wake Up linked here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3shJ8I66Yyk

http://www.roxstop-action.org

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America’s unnerving celebrations post Bin Laden's death

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:47:55 +0000

"Rot in hell" screams the front page of the New York Post. “The Butcher of 9/11 is dead”, “We got him”, “US nails the bastard” as the United States of America basks in bloodthirsty revelry, tabloid antics went into over-drive. Spontaneous celebration filled Times Square, crowds gathered in front of the White House euphorically cheering “USA, USA, USA”. Mass hysteria broke out on the social networking scene with Twitter reporting 4000 tweets per second as news of Osama Bin Laden’s murder broke out.

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WikiLeaks cables cast fresh light on coup against former Australian PM Rudd and more "mirrors"

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:17:17 +0000

WikiLeaks cables cast fresh light on coup against former Australian PM Rudd
By Patrick O’Connor  8 December 2010

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US out of Latin America - Protest at US Consulate, Melbourne, 11 September

peter — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:14:14 +0000

While the US flag flew at half-mast in memory of the victims of 11 September 2001, representatives and supporters of the Latin-American communities in Melbourne held a small rally to remember the victims of the US-inspired coup in Chile on the same day in 1973, and to demand an end to US interference in the affairs of Latin America.

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Support for people of Honduras - 15 August

peter — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:12:16 +0000

While the repression following the coup d'etat continues in Honduras so too do the protests, both there and around the world: last Tuesday was a global day of action called by Via Campesina Honduras (http://www.viacampesina.org), and in Melbourne LASNET held a meeting that evening at Friends of the Earth in Collingwood, followed by a rally at Federation Square on Saturday August 15.

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Zelaya briefly returns to Honduras to combat history of US backed coups in Latin America.

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:24:54 +0000

On Friday July 24, ousted President Manuel Zelaya crossed into Honduras after coup president Roberto Micheletti refused the terms negotiated by Nobel Peace Prize winner Costa Rican President Oscar Arias this weekend which would have restored Zelaya to power under a reconciliation government. He crossed with hundreds of supporters forming a circle around him in as protection but he had to retreat to avoid bloodshed. The military had blocked many more supporters 10 kilometers before the border.

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