Day: March 20, 2015

The truth, the bad and the ugly

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective While the furor over the expose’ of the existence of the Aquino administration’s pork barrel creation the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) and Pres. Benigno Aquino III’s bellicose attitude in defending it, shattered its self-proclaimed image as an anti-corruption crusader, its “daang matuwid” (righteous path) slogan imploded with the Mamasapano fiasco…

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Extending CARPER?

The Catholic Bishops has been pushing for another extension of the CARPER because of the prevailing landlessness among the country’s peasant majority. The Aquino government has supposedly acquiesced and instructed its allies in Congress to extend CARPER.

Progressive farmers’ groups, on the other hand, are pushing not for another extension of CARPER but its version of agrarian reform, the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill.

And the debate is on.

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