ni Daniel Victor Dumanhog Bulatlat.com Kalahating kilong bigas ang pagkakasyahin para sa isang buong maghapon. Sa kalderong mauling, kakainin kahit na ang tutong. Gamit ang marungis na kamay na pansubo sa bibig, sisimutin ang pinggan hanggang sa ito ay masaid ng...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld We write this essay on the third day of the uplifting visit of Pope Francis to the country after his half day stopover at Tacloban City, ground zero of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) and nearby Palo, cut short by...
His Holiness, Pope Francis, PP. 00120 Via del Pellegrino Citta del Vaticano Your Holiness, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.” (Lk 6:20) We share in the joy of our nation, our people and the ecumenical movement in the Philippines in...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Tuesday, as the nation prepared to welcome Pope Francis, 491 political detainees in 43 jails across the country went on a hunger strike that’ll run simultaneously with the papal visit. Their objective:...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Many Filipinos heard it from clerics bristling over tour guide Carlos Celdran’s holding aloft a streamer with the word “Damaso” on it during a mass at the Manila Cathedral. They’ve also heard it from politicians who...
Now, we are standing hand-in-hand with our colleagues at GMA-7 who have formed the Talents Association of GMA and filed a regularization case before the Department of Labor and Employment.
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld More than a year ago when Pope Francis had barely warmed the papal office in Rome, his words and style of leadership signaled something new and welcome to more than one billion Catholics the world over, many of...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Let's get the usual “separation-of-church-and-state” argument out of the way first. Securing the Pope, whoever he may be, is a State responsibility and no one in his right mind should be arguing against it. No one...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Tuesday this paper’s front page featured the Philippines as having moved up from being 90th to 82nd in Forbes’ 2014 “Best Countries for Business” list among 146 countries, posting improvements from 2013...
ni MARK ANGELES Bulatlat.com Umaakyat ang mga kuwitib sa mga punungkahoy. Pasikut-sikot sa mga sanga ang mga alitaptap at gamu-gamo. Yumuyuko ang mga duklay sa mga dahon naluluoy at nariyan ang lupa, nag-aatang ng kamay. Sumisikat ang araw sa pusod ng kagubatan....
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Only 18 months remain of President Aquino’s six-year term. He bows out in July 2016. In the new-year spirit of fulfilling a resolution — or an electoral-campaign promise he made in April 2010 — will P-Noy...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Wealth and the lack of it have always been and will continue to be issues in Philippine politics, for as long as too many people are poor and have almost nothing while a handful of families have everything,...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Somehow it comes as a surprise, if not a let-down. Reacting to the US Senate intelligence committee report which condemns the CIA’s extensive use of torture in interrogations of Al Qaida suspects and...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Torture — including the most brutal type used by state security forces on suspected “enemies of the state” — is back in media focus both in the United States and the Philippines. And human rights groups are...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld No one can blame practically all Filipinos, not only the residents of Tacloban City and other areas in the Visayas, for being so traumatized by the devastation caused by typhoon Yolanda on Nov. 8 last year that...
The report summary is a very disturbing read. Will the full 6,000-page committee report be declassified? Will it push the Obama administration to prosecute those responsible for torture as international law requires? Unless criminal acts carry criminal penalties, there is little to prevent a future president from using torture again.
“If these perpetrators remain scot-free, there would be more VAW victims like ‘Jessa’ and ‘Sienna’.”
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