By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If the United States, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared this week in an address at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is not provoking conflict with capitalist China, it has an odd way of showing it. As the US spokesperson on global affairs…
Day: April 18, 2012
‘Corporatizing’ public hospitals isn’t privatization?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Reacting to my March 24 column piece, titled “Stop privatizing public health services, facilities!” Health Secretary Enrique Ona e-mailed me this note: “I may agree with you in some points, but let me assure you that PPP is not privatization but simply a strategy…
Setting priorities
By IGAL JADA SAN ANDRES Bulatlat.com MANILA – I remember an article I wrote for one of my Journalism classes way back in September of 2010. An electric post belonging to Meralco caught fire in Pook Ricarte that week because it was overloaded. Residents affected by the widening project in Magsaysay Avenue leading to Katipunan…
Workers, peasants converge in rally, demand relief for poor majority
By MARYA SALAMAT
As peasants and workers are being battered by incessant price hikes, peasants are demanding for an increase in the government’s procurement of rice and workers for a substantial wage increase.
What’s the point in the standoff with China?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com There is so much government and media hype over the country’s disputes with China. First it was about the territorial dispute over the Spratly Islands. Now it is about the standoff at Scarborough shoal. It seems as if somebody is trying to stoke the tensions or create a crisis. At the…