“Why should one stop when a lot has to be done to attain radical change not only for Filipinos but for other exploited and oppressed peoples as well?”
“Happiness is in the revolution,” Benito said, smiling. “I could not think of any other life. There is no other way. The revolution is not a burden, an obligation I perform with a heavy heart. It comes out naturally.”
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Then US President George W. Bush. His defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. His vice-president, Richard Cheney. His chief political adviser, Karl Rove. These were some of the lords of destruction who engineered the...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Since 1989, under the amended Labor Code, labor contractualization — hiring workers for short-term, non-regular employment without the benefits accorded by law to regular workers — has become rampant among...
“It is ironic that I was arrested for exercising my right to free speech during Independence Day itself…While politicians who have been stealing from the nation’s coffers are still free to do as they please, I, who was merely exercising my right, was immediately charged and my rights curtailed.” – Pio Emmanuel Mijares, 19-year-old student
The failure of government’s agrarian reform manifests in various haciendas across the country, such as in Hacienda Dolores in Pampanga
The April 2014 nationwide survey shows that 84.2 percent of respondents perceived their livelihood as the same (53.1 percent) or worse (31.1 percent).
by MIKE WHITNEY Counterpunch There’s something that doesn’t ring-true about the coverage of crisis in Iraq. Maybe it’s the way the media reiterates the same, tedious storyline over and over again with only the slightest changes in the narrative. For example, I was...
By Jim Hightower Alternet Have you noticed "the powers that be" employ an entirely different standard for measuring the health of America's job market than they use for the stock market? They're currently telling us that, "The job market is improving." What do they...
by CHANDRA MUZAFFAR Counterpunch Once again, the International Movement for a Just World (JUST) joins hands with the people of Cuba and justice-loving people in every nook and cranny of the planet, in demanding the immediate release of the three remaining prisoners...
Sa pagdami ng mga abogado ng bayan, tiyak na mas maraming kaso tayong maisasampa sa korte upang makatulong sa mga kampanya o ipinaglalaban ng masa.
ROOT ACCESS Rick Bahague Bulatlat.com Pangunahing gamit na sa komunikasyon ang cellphone. Sa pagtitipid at hikahos na buhay, piso-pisong SMS ang ating paraan ng pangungumusta, pakikibalita, pagtugon sa emergency o kaya’y pagpapa-cute. Noong 2013, umaabot na sa...
Mijares shouted, “Patalsikin ang Pork Barrel King! Walang pagbabago sa Pilipinas!” (Oust the Pork Barrel King! Nothing changed in the Philippines!) while holding a banner with the words “Oust PNoy,” “Scrap all forms of pork,” and “DAP ibasura.” (Junk DAP).
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Independence Day has never been more of a sham and a shame than it is today, 116 years since the Declaration of Independence against Spanish colonization “under the protection of the Mighty and Humane North...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld In 1962, then President Diosdado Macapagal declared June 12 Philippine Independence Day -- 16 years after it had been celebrated every July 4 when, in 1946, the United States “granted” the country independence. Few...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Why does China — the world’s second largest economy — behave like the neighborhood bully, specifically towards the Philippines and Vietnam with which it has maritime disputes, and arrogantly claim...
Residents were forced to sign certificates of surrender, made to attend a three-day seminar, and threatened as the military conducted massive military operations in their communities.
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The day after the opening of the country’s schools, it’s customary for the media to regale the country with human interest stories and photos on how, in those communities far from Manila or any other urban center,...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Invoking the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and seeking resolution to our maritime dispute with China via the arbitral tribunal provided under the UNCLOS is probably the best tack to take, a belated...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If a military takeover or a declaration of martial law as what happened in Thailand seems unthinkable today in the Philippines, it seemed equally implausible in 1972. But that didn’t prevent it from happening then;...
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