By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Stress comes every day. My partner would often complain that I am workaholic. I cannot blame him. I always find myself having a long To Do list. After finishing some tasks, more come. In addition to writing assignments and legwork, there’s domestic work, too and motherhood duties. Although I do…
Month: September 2013
Gov urges probe of Benguet officials for misuse of public funds
By KIMBERLIE N. QUITASOL Northern Dispatch LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Benguet Governor Nestor Fongwan urged a speedy and impartial investigation on the alleged involvement of Benguet officials in the misuse of pork barrel and Malampaya funds. “We welcome the probe so that we will know who really misused public funds because it really deprived the…
Conflict wouldn’t have lasted long, and could have saved lives, in Zamboanga City
The National Ulama Conference of the Philippines in the Zambasulta Region said his group and civil society organizations offered viable options to break the standoff sooner between the MNLF followers of Misuari, and state security forces in Zambo.
Bragging Rights: Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American achievements of the 21st century
By Tom Engelhardt Tomdispatch.com “But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death, and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act. That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional. With humility, but with resolve, let us never lose…
Status of the resistance movement: growing, deepening, succeeding
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Truthout So much has been accomplished by Occupy and other social justice movements in the past two years that it is incredible the corporate media and their pundits do not report on what is happening around them. Despite the lack of corporate media coverage, the movement is deepening, creating…
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The Pork
Ni ARLAN CAMBA Bulatlat.com Kikilos tayong iisa sa garalgal na boses ng pagbabago iisang tinig tayo; bumulong man o sumigaw, tumili ng impit o bahaw madidikdik sa utak didikit sa balat sasaksak sa kaluluwa ang atungal ng mga pagtutol ng pagkaulol; sa naglalaway na pangil na lumapa sa leeg, sa dibdib sa sikmura, sa hita,…
Malampaya fund used to buy ‘expensive, discarded’ Coast Guard boats from US
“Don’t our officials feel betrayed? We are being bullied by China, we go to the US for help. In return, they sold us junk materials at a very high price, only to find out that US is also talking to China about possible mutual defense arrangements.” – Bayan Muna Rep.
Children’s group calls for peace in Zamboanga
MANILA – “We want peace.” This is the call of children as the war in Zamboanga continues and casualties are increasing. Children and child’s rights organizations gathered in a peace and solidarity action on Friday, Sept. 27 at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani grounds. They carried banners bearing calls such as “Genuine peace in Mindanao,…
The poet is a guerrilla
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The guerrilla is like a poet Keen to the rustle of leaves The break of twigs The ripples of the river The smell of fire And the ashes of departure. — Jose Maria Sison, 1968 Sari and Kiri Dalena’s ground-breaking film, The Guerilla is a Poet, takes its inspiration…
“The authoritarian gene”
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Filipinos hailed the fall of the Marcos dictatorship 27 years ago, 14 years after the imposition of martial law on Sept. 21, 1972, as marking the end of a historical anomaly. Prior to Presidential Proclamation 1081, had not the Philippines been a democracy, and was it not…