The widows of Mamasapano
"We share the pain of the widows of the 44 slain elements of SAF."
The widows of Mamasapano
Aquino and Mamasapano: Covering up for incompetence
Aquino and Mamasapano: Covering up for incompetence
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The second address to the nation about the Mamasapano incident by President B.S. Aquino last Friday was more of the same glib BS. To the fallen 44’s relatives, the self-proclaimed “Father of the Nation” said he...
US hand in SAF tragedy confirmed
US hand in SAF tragedy confirmed
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Indeed the Americans did it. They planned, funded, and closely monitored the execution of “Operation Wolverine/Exodus” carried out last Jan. 25 in Mamasapano, Maguindanao by the PNP Special Action Force they...
Bangsamoro after Mamasapano: Don’t muddy the issues of war and peace
Bangsamoro after Mamasapano: Don’t muddy the issues of war and peace
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Some broadcast news reports were calling it “a massacre” hardly after the last shots had been fired. Not to be outdone, their colleagues in print said it was “a slaughter.” In the days that followed, the Philippine...
Guernica | Pagkaraan ni Picasso
Guernica | Pagkaraan ni Picasso
Ni Glen Sales Bulatlat.com Ang mukha ng karahasan Na nasa pusod ng isang bayan Ay una nang nailarawan ni Picasso Sa hiwa-hiwang hugis sa loob ng kanbas Na tumutugis ang hapis Sa mga hinablot ng hilakbot Na sadyang walang Kinikilalang oras at bayan; Mga dugong...
One year after Yolanda|Leytenos rebuild homes, communities through bayanihan
One year after Yolanda|Leytenos rebuild homes, communities through bayanihan
The strongest typhoon to make landfall in the Philippines, November 8, 2013, damaged over a million houses and left over four million people homeless. Bayanihan, the Filipino spirit of helping each other, literally builds homes and communities in this Yolanda-stricken area.
Pols, polls & the ties that bind: ‘Candidates’ to Comelec chairs
Pols, polls & the ties that bind: ‘Candidates’ to Comelec chairs
Filipinos choose the people who will run their government through elections. Yet they do not hold the power to choose who will run the elections. That authority rests on the President, who appoints the chairperson and six commissioners of the Commission on Elections.
To the wives, mothers, sisters and kin of the SAF 44
To the wives, mothers, sisters and kin of the SAF 44
Like you, our family lost Recca, my most endeared sister in war. She was a member of the New People's Army.
Banana growers survive two super typhoons
Banana growers survive two super typhoons
One of the areas most damaged by the last two super typhoons, which made landfall in the country, is the Eastern Visayas region. With one super typhoon making landfall where communities have barely recovered from another, recovery and rehabilitation efforts have become more and more challenging.
Epic fail in leadership, intelligence
Epic fail in leadership, intelligence
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld It was a rout -- massacre. On the early morning of Jan. 25, 44 out of close to 400 elite, US-trained Special Action Force (SAF) policemen were killed in a 12-hour firefight in a remote barrio in Mamasapano,...
Gabriela solons push for more protection from abusive spouses
Gabriela solons push for more protection from abusive spouses
Women legislators initiated bills to amend “unfair” and “discriminatory” provisions in the Family Code.
Government can’t hide poverty, but not for lack of trying
Government can’t hide poverty, but not for lack of trying
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If, as Jordan Belfort (the real life anti-hero of the Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street) declares, there is no nobility in poverty, neither is there any justification in hiding it. And we have it from an...
American role in the botched SAF operation
American role in the botched SAF operation
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “Oplan Wolverine.” That’s the name given to the operational plan to arrest or “neutralize” (meaning, kill) Malaysian Zulkifli bir Hir, alias Marwan – for whose capture, dead or alive, the US government had...
Batang kalabaw
Batang kalabaw
Ni JESSIE RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com tirik ang haring araw tumatagaktak ang pawis sa lahat ng singit ng kanyang katawan dama niya ang init na tila apoy na tumutunaw ng laman ngunit di ito alintana ng kanyang murang isipan binuhat, ang dalawang berdeng baldeng puno ng...
The Pope and climate change
The Pope and climate change
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Most observers are likely to agree that the visit of Pope Francis has reinvigorated the faith of the millions of Catholics in the only predominantly Christian country in Asia. But that visit was also an expression...
The Mendiola Massacre, other issues of justice, peace
The Mendiola Massacre, other issues of justice, peace
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Peasants and their supporters marched anew to Mendiola last Thursday to commemorate the 28th year of the Mendiola Massacre (Jan. 22, 1987). Again they cried for justice, primarily for the 13 farmer-marchers...
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