1. After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face. In the Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, thousands are dead, bodies lie uncollected in the streets, tens of thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, and survivors are without food, water, shelter, medical care, or essential supplies. Meanwhile the police and the military are guarding stores "to prevent people from hauling off food, water" and other supplies.
2. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
3. Connexions
   Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
4. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
5. Connexions Library: Pacific Region Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Pacific region.
6. Development debacle
   The World Bank in the Philippines
   Resource Type: Book
   Reveals the bureaucratic blunders and misguided assumptions behind the World Bank's model for third world development, a model that serves the interests of the US and the multinational corporations.
   
7. Dilemmas of Domination
   The Unmaking of the American Empire
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2005
   Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
8. The Earthscan Action Handbook
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
9. Embassy Row Online
   Resource Type: Website
   Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
10. Eradicating Extreme Poverty
    Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A new approach to eradicating extreme poverty, contrasted with conventional "top-down" approaches.
11. The Export of Philippine Women
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Principles of social justice are clearly not served by applauding a system that prides itself in an increased GNP at the same time that it farms out its women to be servants of the world.
12. Facing West: the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    From John Endicott's war on the Niantics and Pequots, to the horrors of the My Lai massacre, Drinnon illustrates how Indian-hating in the Americas became a national pastime, and how that same hate was turned against the native populations of the Phillipines and Southeast Asia.
13. 50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
    Enough
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
14. Filipino Maids for Export
    'Always be Punctual and Don't Count the Work You are Doing'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Twelve percent of the Philippines’ GDP comes as remittances from nationals abroad. Many of those are maids, sent all over the world into domestic service to support their children back home. The Philippines government is even training them in servitude.
15. Filipino women take lead in resolving Mindanao conflict
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Teresita Quintos Deles and Miriam Coronel Ferrer won over Islamic leaders who initially balked at dealing with women.
16. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
17. Issues & Actions
    April 1986
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    A Toronto newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on the life and work of Maria Ociepka, People's Power in the Philippines, a rally against free trade, labour law loopholes that victimize workers, and Is the media your message?
18. Killing Hope 
    U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
19. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
20. The Missing Piece
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A strong, independent labour movement could lead the struggle for democracy and justice in the Philippines. Rodrigo Duterte's revolution, at least so far, looks like nothing more than a reshuffling of the country's political elite. The election seems to mark a period of continuity, not progressive change, in Philippine politics.
21. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
22. Our Generation
    Volume 2 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1963
    
23. People's struggles in Latin Asia & Philippines, colonial protests during the Spanish era
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    At the end of the nineteenth century, the Philippines was the first country in Asia to be liberated from colonial power. The first anti-colonial revolt against Spanish rule occurred from 1896 to 1898.
24. Petition for the Withdrawl of U.S. Bases From the Philippines
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1978
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    
25. Philippine revolts against Spain
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Revolts during the Spanish colonial period.
26. Philippines: Resisting Gobble-ization
    Against The Current vol. 146
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In his latest book, Epifanio San Juan Jr. uncovers the concealed operations of power and the historic inequalities of political economic systems that have impacted Filipinos in an age of globalized crisis and contradiction. While the definition of globalization is often debated, for the majority of people in the Philippines the process of globalization can be more accurately described as “gobble-ization.”
27. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible.
28. The Philippines under fire
    New Internationalist March 1990
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    An investigation into the political and cultural life of the Philippines, told in the form of a travelogue. The stories of ordinary people are interspersed with historical detail and analysis of the current climate.
29. Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
30. Selling Modernity: How Global Greenwashing is Destroying Tribal People
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) in Casiguran, the Philippines, is a 12,923 hectare area currently being developed into a self-sufficient commercial hub and special economic zone.If completed, APECO will strip 3,000 small farms and indigenous Agta households of their land.
31. Slavery, Genocide, Abuse: The Dark Side of Asia's 'Tiger Economies'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    From declining worker protections to violent labour trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
32. Stop the Sale of Canadian Uranium to the Philipines:
    A Statement of Unity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    
33. U.S. Sponsored Low Intensity Conflict in the Philippines
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
34. World Minorities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
    
35. The World's Most Fashionable Prison
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    Fashion designer Puey Quinones works with inmates in a Philipine prison to teach them how to sew, work with fabrics and see their ideas go from sketch to finished product.

Experts on Philippines in the Sources Directory

1. Asian Development Bank
2. United Nations