The following are some of college editors' proposed 2013 New Year's Resolution for President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino, as compiled by the College Editors' Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) national office: More prudent spending. The government should monitor spending...
By ARNOLD PADILLA Bulatlat.com MANILA -- In 2012, the dominant theme peddled by the Aquino administration was “good governance is good economics”. Malacañang’s hoax is that the “daang matuwid” (righteous path) has created a favorable environment for inclusive...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Eight months have passed since Arnel Leonor, 19, of Silverio Compound in Parañaque City, was killed during the demolition of their homes. As of this writing, no justice has been served and his mother Glenda feels it is...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – In 2012, the incomes of the Filipino working population shrunk further compared to the rising cost of living, their recorded productivity and, based on news reports, growing revenues of companies. Considering that 2012...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Next year would be the mid-point of the Aquino administration. Because it is already near its mid-point, the Filipino people could already accurately gauge the direction of the administration. Let us look at the policy directions of...
By BULATLAT STAFF
Every year Bulatlat.com comes out with an analysis of the impact of the administration on the issues and concerns that affect the Filipino people. This year ender has added importance as we are approaching the midpoint of the Aquino presidency – which campaigned under the banner of change – and its policy directions have already taken shape.
Gains, sins of omission and commission of the Aquino presidency
State of press freedom: Attacks and threats in 2012
Now you see them, now you don’t, but G.I. Joes are here to stay, no thanks to the Aquino government
The costs of the Aquino government’s K to 12 program
On Aquino’s mid-term, tillers in Luisita, elsewhere still landless
Aquino administration’s human rights policy: Big in words, too little in action
Aquino’s favorite whipping boys in 2012, government employees
Bleeding the supposed ‘bosses,’ the working masses, dry
In 2012, urban poor jailed, killed for fighting for homes
Elite governance, elite economics: When vaunted growth clashes with reality
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The Aquino government is very active and very swift in filing trumped-up charges against labor leaders and activists but it fails to attain justice for victims of human-rights violations.” – KMU
Children of Tondo celebrate Christmas (Photo by Anne Marxze D. Umil / Bulatlat.com)
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The new law, the first of its kind in Asia, imposes a punishment of life imprisonment on those directly involved in the crime of enforced disappearance as well as on superior officers who order or are otherwise implicated in a disappearance.
Their vividly colored indigenous clothing shout like a blast of dynamite ripping through the mountains they call home. It is Tuesday and they are standing in a busy avenue in the snotty business district of Makati. “It is where the mining companies are, and if they...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“From the evidence that we have gathered from the hearing and also from the documents we were able to get, I believe that he [Brig. Gen. Eduardo Año] has a direct hand in the abduction of my son.”
A worker tends to a resort's waterway, scooping flotsam and jetsam on board his bamboo raft. Photo by POM CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA (Bulatlat.com)
Arrest Palparan, kin of victims ask Aquino (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat.com)
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – December is a season of giving, but not for government employees. Public school teachers marched to Chino Roces Bridger (former Mendiola Bridge), December 14 to in protest of the 50-percent reduction of their...
By MARYA SALAMAT
The state witness revealed that the killing of labor leader Rolando Olalia and his companion Leonor Alay-ay was meant to ignite protests that would be used by the RAM to launch a coup d'état.
By MARYA SALAMAT
John Doe arrest warrants are deemed by human rights lawyers as highly irregular because it does not contain the names of the alleged perpetrators and are used to arrest just about anybody.
By ERICSON ACOSTA Political Prisoner Despite the grim reality of imprisonment, I have not, as of yet, been condemned to a total state of ignorance as far as current efforts of various committed art and cultural groups and alliances are concerned. Thanks largely to...
Construction workers hang on sheer cliffs to work on the strengthening of a mountainside above a busy provincial highway. (Saranggani Province)
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“The awards are intended to keep alive the excellent and principled journalism (Chit) Simbulan had always engaged in." – Ellen Tordesillas, veteran journalist and president of Vera Files
‘Wage hike one of the best Yuletide Gifts lawmakers can give before 2013 elections’ (Photos by Marya Salamat / Bulatlat.com)
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