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A Matter of Conviction: Critical and Controversial Papers of Captain Danilo P. Vizmanos, PN by Luis G. Jalandoni

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This title is more than just a collection of papers. It is a critique of a social order that has chained our country to its colonial moorings despite more than half a century of "independence." It is also a critique of successive regimes whose response to the people's cry for social justice and emancipation from economic bondage has been a consistent application of state repression, militarization and counterinsurgency operations.

This book provides answers to some nagging questions:

  • After a succession of regimes, each promising a better quality of life for the people, why is the country unable to free itself from the Sisyphean syndrome of recurring economic regression?
  • After decades of foreign economic aid and investments, why has mass poverty and living conditions gone from bad to worse in our country unlike others in the Asia-Pacific region that have maintained steady economic growth and development? Who really benefits from foreign economic aid and investments in Philippine society?
  • Whose interests do the military and police institutions really serve?

246 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 2006 by
IBON Books

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