On “More Than A Red Warrior” (Arnold Borja Jaramillo: Beloved Son of Abra). 2015. Luchie Maranan ed. Philippines: Family and friends of AJ Jaramillo. 351pp. BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO Genuine recognition of revolution entails a concrete consideration of the human...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld President Benigno S. C. Aquino III returned to the Philippines last Saturday after a week-long visit to France, Italy and the Vatican, but his remarks upon landing at the airport sounded as if he were still in...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In a single day, military intelligence operatives rounded up over 50 suspected “subversives” in Manila, herded them inside a military camp’s officers’ clubhouse, and subjected each one to prolonged...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld To the Aquino government and the designers, contractors, entertainers and others fortunate enough to have partaken of the P10-billion peso outlay for the two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld His rising numbers in the surveys suggest that Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte is within striking distance of the presidency. That possibility demands a serious assessment of the prospects and implications of a...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last September, at the onset of the “ber” months which usually evoke happy thoughts of Christmas, I wrote here about the dark prospects shadowing the yearend instead – intensifying militarization, political...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star No matter the military muscle-flexing both by China and the United States (along with Japan and other US regional allies) in relation to the ongoing maritime dispute in our part of the world, all parties...
Ni KERIMA LORENA TARIMAN kanina lang, tumama sa haligi ng kubo ang punglo, na gusto nilang ilibing sa kanyang bungo. at ngayon, ang bisita ay naka-plasta sa kanilang bangko, ipinagtimpla ng kape, inalok ng sigarilyo, at hinayaang maligo sa mapagpakumbabang banyo,...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld He probably didn’t remember it -- or if he did, and was asked about it, President Benigno S. C. Aquino III would very likely have dismissed the Nov. 23, 2009 Maguindanao Massacre as just another case of media...
By JOHN PILGER News Analysis, Truthout Following the ISIS attacks in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay, originally published October 11, 2014, on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it. In transmitting President Richard...
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Our country is on fire yet we continue to rank our islands based on what tourists want. Should we rejoice when travel magazines list some of our islands as among the must-see places in the world? Yes, of course. But it doesn’t mean...
Another day of delay in bringing justice to the 58 victims is another license for greater human rights violations and unaccountability in the country. We could no longer allow this government, or the next, to continue this injustice.
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld As of this writing, French police had arrested some 30 people suspected of involvement in the Nov. 13 terror attack on Paris which left at least 129 civilians dead and 300 injured. The Islamic State (IS) has claimed...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In the early 1990s, the mantra of neoliberal economic globalization was “prosperity to the people of all nations without exception.” The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum has fostered the mantra...
Dayong nagsidatingan Nakita ang alindog ng inang lupa Nasilaw ng pagnanasa Ninais gahasain ang ina Ngunit 'di ito madaling magawa Sapagkat ang mga anak ng lupa, di palulupig sa mapagsamantala Punlang tingga gumahasa sa payapa dahil nais ng dayo't gahaman ay...
By AlterMidya The full text of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was finally disclosed last week after years of being negotiated in utmost secrecy. The public, including the US Congress itself, were kept in the dark on the details of the...
Ni KERIMA LORENA TARIMAN Bulatlat.com Mga 20 taon na mula nang ilimbag ang una kong koleksyon ng tula, may pamagat na Biyahe, nang magtapos ako sa Philippine High School for the Arts sa Mt. Makiling, Laguna noong 1996. Pagpasok ko sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (UP)...
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