Dispatches: Military abuses in Southern Philippines
Military operations are “the main driving factor of displacement” in Maguindanao
Dispatches: Military abuses in Southern Philippines
What’s in a race… or a gender?
What’s in a race… or a gender?
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The election of Barack Obama to the US Presidency in 2008 did not mean that racism had ended in the United States. And neither will the election of former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to...
Prudent diplomacy best in handling maritime row
Prudent diplomacy best in handling maritime row
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Our dispute with China over its claims on certain islets, reefs and shoals in the South China/West Philippine Sea may not be resolved soon. Of late, China’s aggressive unilateral acts have been making news –...
Online journo nabbed for libel
Online journo nabbed for libel
“This is an attack on the rights of Elmer James Bandol and on the freedom of the press.”
Walang pinipili ang nguso ng baril
Walang pinipili ang nguso ng baril
Ni MARK ANGELES Kahit kasingganda pa ng beauty queen. Ilantad mo ang panginoon ng jueteng Buhay mo pa ang siyang sisingilin. Mga journo po rito sa bayan namin Kapit sa totoo ay parang kapit sa patalim. Ngunit isa-isahin man o sabay-sabay utasin Hindi malalansag ang...
A young man’s suicide and a new generation
A young man’s suicide and a new generation
By BIENVENIDO LUMBERA* Bulatlat.com “#Y” is the enigmatic title of a film by Gino M. Santos, a young director whose film ”The Animals” for an early edition of the Cinemalaya Film Festival had called the attention of certain Manunuri reviewers. “#Y” is a highly...
The Singapore proposition
The Singapore proposition
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Contrary to what Shakespeare said about the good that men do being interred with their bones once they’re dead while the evil that they do lives after them, the death of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew became the occasion...
Groups want Canadian waste returned home
Groups want Canadian waste returned home
Different kinds of rubbish such as plastics, diapers, used syringe and other garbage in 50 container vans were shipped into the country as “recyclable” materials.
20 questions for President Aquino on the Mamasapano bloody encounter
20 questions for President Aquino on the Mamasapano bloody encounter
Makabayan bloc lawmakers want President Aquino to answer these questions, whether in written form or in person.
Indignation-al anthem
Indignation-al anthem
my fears were abolished as you tried to write a constitution in my heart, parted it into four, for my mother who is a mother for my father who is a worker for my sister who is a child and for my brother who is a queer, then you attached wings in it and said I was...
The personal is political
The personal is political
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Readers of this 10-something-year-old column have likely observed that the essays I write are mostly political in nature; an outcome of my being a social activist from way back when. But once in a rare while and...
Photo of the week | Sea, sky, soul
Photo of the week | Sea, sky, soul
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables By Dondon...
Love is not just about you and I
Love is not just about you and I
the calmed weather did not calm her weary heart as the pages of the calendar changed their faces and blew away the leaves of so many yesterdays buried from a dreadful past, paralyzed from the memories that played on loops until the voices of madness devoured her...
Aquino’s ‘last word’ on Mamasapano, the writing on the wall?
Aquino’s ‘last word’ on Mamasapano, the writing on the wall?
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld President Benigno S. C. Aquino III’s speech at the PNPA graduation was meant to write finis to the public uproar over the bloody, botched counterterrorist operation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Instead it only...
Right and wrong
Right and wrong
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld As a leading member of the Cabinet, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima can rightly be accused of involvement in a Malacañang-orchestrated effort to shield President Benigno S. C. Aquino III from liability for the...
P-Noy’s accountability on Mamasapano tragedy
P-Noy’s accountability on Mamasapano tragedy
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “What decisions did I make? My decisions were based on information available to me at the time, and that’s how I want to be judged.” That’s how President Aquino premised his “tell-all” speech last Thursday...
Mining Act of 1995: Dalawang Dekada ng Karahasan
Mining Act of 1995: Dalawang Dekada ng Karahasan
KALIBUTAN By LEON DULCE Third of three parts: 1st part: Mining Act of 1995 | Dalawang dekada ng sinaid na yaman 2nd part: Mining Act of 1995 | Dalawang dekada ng disaster Kung nasaan ang minahan, nandun ang militar. Sa nakaraang mga taon, hindi kukulang sa 34...
Venezuela stands up to US bullying
Venezuela stands up to US bullying
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The failed coup in Venezuela last February and US President Obama’s declaration this March that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a “national security threat” to the United States have escaped most...
Sound Bites ni Nguynoy
Sound Bites ni Nguynoy
Ni Mark Angeles Bulatlat.com Magtatayo ka ng wind; paano kung walang hangin? Kung solar, paano kung makulimlim? Kasalanan ko na naman. They are not only inaccurate, they are lies. May nagtanong ho kasi sa akin, sabi niya, 'kamusta love life mo?' Eh ang sabi ko po...
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