Fourth of July - Conrado de Quiros

MANILA, Philippines -- Most Filipinos today don't have any recollection of it, but there was a time when we celebrated Independence Day on this day, July 4. That was the date the United States chose to grant us independence, to dramatize the point about the lives and fates of Filipinos and Americans being intertwined. That was an idea steeped in the most resonant myths and symbols, notably in the one about Filipinos and Americans fighting side by side in Bataan and Corregidor, being imprisoned and tortured in Intramuros, and winning hand-in-hand in Leyte and elsewhere.

http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=193&a=21335

The truth is we were born on the 4th of July! - By BOBIT S. AVILA

Whether you accept this truth or not, 61 years ago, the Philippines became a truly independent state free from its colonial master in a ceremony where the United States of America lowered its flag (back then the Stars and Stripes only had 48 states) and all foreign governments confirmed this act by recognizing Philippine sovereignty.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=83373

Guam's Filipinos celebrate heritage - Kim Alba Pacific Daily News

Guam's Filipino community paid tribute yesterday to a Philippine revolutionary hero at the War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Asan. In celebration of 109 years of Philippine independence, the Filipino Community of Guam held a wreath-laying ceremony yesterday at the Mabini Shrine, a monument to Apolinario Mabini, also known as the Sublime Paralytic, who was a key figure in the Philippine revolution against the Spanish in the late 1800s.

http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070618/NEWS01/706180306/1002

19th Philippine Independence Celebration - Rene Villaroman/Asianjournal.com

LONG BEACH -- Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan said that he ran for the senate as an independent based on "my principles and conviction and my belief that politics as usual was no longer the road to victory." The newly reelected senator was the guest speaker at the gala night of the 109th Independence Day Celebration organized by the Kalayaan of Southern California, Inc. (KOSCI) that was attended by more than 1,000 Filipino Americans at the Long Beach Convention Center on Saturday, June 9.

http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=124&a=20889

Iraq is nothing new - Paul Greenberg

Powerful thing, myth. It can move men to noble deeds of heroism and self-sacrifice. Dangerous thing, myth. It can lead politicians to believe even their own propaganda, and so mislead others. Consider the myth that the war in Iraq is this country's "first pre-emptive war."

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070607/COLUMNISTS0204/706070316/1119/COLUMNISTS

World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals - Murray N. Rothbard

In contrast to older historians who regarded World War I as the destruction of progressive reform, I am convinced that the war came to the United States as the "fulfillment," the culmination, the veritable apotheosis of progressivism in American life.[1] I regard progressivism as basically a movement on behalf of Big Government in all walks of the economy and society, in a fusion or coalition between various groups of big businessmen, led by the House of Morgan, and rising groups of technocratic and statist intellectuals. In this fusion, the values and interests of both groups would be pursued through government.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard156.html

Old Wars in New Rhetoric - DINO J. CATERINI

It was the in thing of the early Sixties. Anyone who was anyone was talking about it. America was embarked on a great new adventure: to prove that revolutionary warfare could not succeed. Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh had developed a diabolical form of warfare that they dubbed "revolutionary warfare," and America was out to prove that it wouldn't work. The type of warfare being employed by the Communists wasn't exactly guerrilla warfare as we had known it in the past; it was a new strain of deadly virus, and counter-insurgency was the newly emerging antibody that would soon gain enough strength to destroy it.

http://www.progressive.org/node/4963

VFW post celebrates 75 years

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States has 2.4 million members at 9,000 posts worldwide. The organization traces its roots to 1899 when veterans of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection founded local groups to secure rights and benefits.

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