From more than 7,000 kilometers away, Filipino peace advocates expressed solidarity with the Iranian people and condemned the “illegal, unjust and unprovoked” US-Israeli attacks on their country. On Thursday, April 23, Filipino activists, union leaders, health workers, academics, artists, Christian clergy and Muslim religious leaders formalized a movement called Stop the US-Israel War in Iran...
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A new gallery of rogue states
If Western mainstream media are to be believed, the likes of North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Syria and, until recently, Venezuela are rogue states. They are considered “rogue” because they supposedly flout international law by “promoting terrorism,” seeking to develop or already having nuclear weapons, widely disregarding human rights, or engaging in the narcotics trade. As...
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What the Bondi Beach shooters did during their stay in Davao City
Sajid Akram, who with his son Naveed killed 15 persons in an attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Dec. 14, was seen jogging with Naveed each morning and visited a gun shop during their nearly monthlong stay in Davao City. Police Maj. Catherine dela Rey, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 11, told CoverStory...
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Año says no evidence of Bondi shooters’ terror training in Mindanao
There is no confirmation that the father-and-son gunmen who killed 15 people in Sydney’s Bondi Beach received “military-style training” in southern Philippines before the Dec. 14 attack, National Security Adviser Eduardo Año said on Wednesday. “No evidence supports such a claim at present,” Año, a former chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP),...
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High court’s rules do not cure ‘horribly repressive’ antiterror law, says lawyer
The rules set by the Supreme Court on the Anti-Terror Act of 2020 cannot cure the “horribly repressive” law that will be enforced by a “horribly repressive’’ council, lawyer Neri Colmenares said on Wednesday. Colmenares, who presented oral arguments against the law at the high court as counsel for the militant group Bayan Muna, said...