BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com Where autocrats rule, they call on the living. How do contemporary forms of subjugation operate? For over two decades, the (Focauldian) critique of biopolitics has gained currency in explaining modern forms of subjugation. Biopolitics involves the control of an entire population through subjection of bodies under disciplinary apparatuses in…
“Aquino has opened the country’s economy for the benefit of big foreign businesses. He would even give them tax incentives. But we, Filipinos, are not getting the same. What would happen to us?”
While the president and his people in Malacañang are harried with making reports, claims and new promises to present on President Noynoy Aquino’s 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA) tomorrow, various groups are just as frenzied preparing for the big protest “SONA ng Bayan”.
“The devil, or the evil of DAP, is in the details. It cannot be found in lump sum allocations that Abad is peddling to the public.”– Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares
“The Jalaur Dam is one of the pet projects, if not milking cows, of Senate President Franklin Drilon, one of Aquino’s leading allies.” – Environmental Network against Pork Barrel and Corruption
“After class, we are bringing home our students’ academic outputs for us to evaluate and assess. We are also doing class preparations at home. It is ironic that we have no time to teach our own children.” – France Castro, Alliance of Concerned Teachers
Ni: REYWYNX MORGADO Dapat Aquino Patalsikin Sa mga anomalyang gawain pangulo siya na magnanakaw kaban ng bayan inagaw Dapat Aquino Patalsikin Abad niya’y alipin sila’y magnanakaw na tunay Pilipino’y binibitay Dapat Aquino Patalsikin malaki ang kanyang pananagutan sa bayan halatang walang matuwid na daan sa pamumunong dahas pera ng bayan kinakamkam at winawaldas Dapat aquino…
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld President Benigno S. Aquino III’s bullheaded and combative speech televised nationwide last Monday has turned the tide against Malacaang in its defense of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). It revealed Mr. Aquino’s dark side. Rather than be introspective, if not a bit humbled, by the majority Supreme Court decision,…
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The peasant-born Apolinario Mabini, whose 150th birth anniversary passed last Wednesday with few being even aware of it, was one of the two greatest intellectuals produced by the reform and revolutionary periods in Philippine history. Mabini, who by dint of hard work became a lawyer by the…
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The title sums up what could be a devious game plan for the Aquino government as it seeks a conclusion to its peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The negotiations have produced a Framework Agreement and a Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro…
“The EDCA is essentially a basing agreement. No amount of euphemism by President Aquino, his representatives and other officials will cure the constitutional violation caused by this agreement.”