With President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s enforcement of the calibrated preemptive response policy, more and more Catholic bishops and even lay leaders are coming out with statements opposed to her government’s actions. Is the country’s most influential church then...
A look at the proposed 2006 General Appropriations Act would show that state colleges and universities – numbering hundreds all over the country – are to get less than half of the budgetary allotments for two major military educational institutions, the Philippine...
Review of Umani: Mga Likhang Sining ng Buhay at Pakikibaka ng Magsasaka para sa Lupa at Kalayaan, published by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas 70 pages Umani is a literary anthology about peasants, for peasants and by peasants. Those who have read it will...
The anti-riot police who dispersed rallies on Oct. 4, 5 and 6 are violating Batas Pambansa Blg. 880, the law governing the conduct of rallies, a labor and human rights lawyer said. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO The anti-riot police who dispersed rallies on Oct. 4,...
A photojournalist was the first to arrive at the scene of an attack allegedly perpetrated by the New People’s Army in Tarlac. Instead of having a scoop, however, he ended up being accused by the military and police of being in cahoots with the NPA. He was then...
A former commissioner of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) said over the weekend that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is creating a “de facto dictatorship.” She cited the calibrated preemptive response policy and EO 464 as “repressive acts,”...
What does retired Army Brig. Gen. Raymundo Jarque think of military corruption, which his son and others fought against in various ways? What does he think has been achieved so far in this area, and what more does he think should be done? BY ALEXANDER MARTIN...
The spokesperson of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May First Movement) said that the various cause-oriented groups are ready to stage a series of protest actions if oil prices increase again and the temporary restraining order on the Expanded Value-Added Tax (EVAT)...
With the administration-controlled House Committee on Justice voting to kill the amended impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in favor of a weak one whose veracity is in question, the impeachment battle has shifted to the streets for...
Prof. Lennox Hinds, who sat in the Presidium of Judges of an International People’s Tribunal that indicted President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for human rights violations, hardly looks like a lawyer and didn’t originally intend to be one. He decided to become a...
In the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo received flak from several overseas workers’ groups for the transfer of the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Medicare Fund from the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) to...
In the call for the resignation or removal of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo white is the color of the day for a new alliance of anti-Arroyo personalities and groups from the so-called middle forces. The White Ribbon Movement (WRM), the middle-force alliance has...
Unlike her previous State of the Nation Addresses, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s fifth one will be delivered before a nation that is largely no longer interested in what she will have to say, and is now mostly engaged in actions to push for her removal from...
While there is a unity among various political forces on the campaign to remove President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from office, there are different ideas on who or what should replace Macapagal-Arroyo should she be unseated. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO...
President also committed four impeachable offenses, lawyer says. The contents of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s taped conversation with an election official – widely believed to be Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano – could get her as much as 23 ½ years...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s June 27 televised admission that it was her voice that is in the controversial taped conversations widely believed to be dealing with rigging the 2004 presidential election has, as the oft-repeated phrase goes, raised more...
It was a big, jolly rally, and maybe even Malacañang had a laugh. But the writing on the wall is definitely no laughing matter for the beleaguered President. PHOTOS BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN AND DABET CASTAÑEDA TEXT BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com (PICTURE)...
Singer-composer and university professor Jim Paredes, National Museum curator John Silva, and poet-musician Jess Santiago are veterans of previous Edsa uprisings. What do they think of the possibility of another Edsa uprising? BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO...
On the taped conversations, the legitimacy of the GMA presidency, and the validity of the laws signed by GMA The controversy generated by the surfacing of CDs containing taped conversations allegedly between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former Election...
A professor of law at the University of the Philippines said that Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales should investigate the taped conversation allegedly involving President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and an official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). This, said...
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