By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Six months before her 104th birthday my mother, Cecilia Cunanan Ocampo, quietly breathed her last at dawn on May 24. She passed away where she had wished she would: in our farmhouse amidst tall fruit trees...
By PIERRE M. SPREY and FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch.org On 17 May, William Broad’s piece, “In Taking Crimea, Putin Gains a Sea of Fuel Reserves”, appeared in the New York Times. Broad explained how the annexation of Crimea by Russia changed the legal claims for...
By JOHN PILGER Counterpunch.org Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”,...
Amid the slow recovery in many developed countries, foreign corporations are looking at potential markets where they could direct their excess capital in speculative areas and take advantage of opportunities to profit.
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld “Total system failure at all levels of government to protect Filipino lives” was how Phelim Kine, deputy director of the Asia division of Human Rights Watch (HRW), described the situation in Tagum City, Davao del...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Three seemingly unconnected events have been unfolding in the past days and weeks -- the exposé on the “Napolist” or list of legislators acting as alleged partners-in-crime of pork barrel scam queen Janet...
“Land is our life. Water springs from here and we live here.” These are the statements of several Datu of the indigenous group Manobo, led by Datu Guibang, who has become a local legend. They declared it to us journalists in the hinterlands of Talaingod, Davao del...
Ni MARK ANGELES Bulatlat.com ayaw pang mag-sing and dance ni leila d. give her space daw then let's wait and see inii-scrub pa ang members ng liberal party sa listahan ng mga kumubra ng talent fee samantala, itong tukmol na bs ay sarreh nang sarreh at si mar ay...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Former Senator Panfilo Lacson says he’s having a hard time doing his job as the Aquino administration’s “rehabilitation czar,” complaining only a week ago that two members of the Aquino Cabinet have been deliberately...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star They’re at it again, or rather, they haven’t stopped doing it. Over the past two months they have been doing the same in Talaingod, Davao del Norte and other places in the Davao region. I refer to the AFP’s...
“Even before Yolanda, majority of the victims have been poor, with no regular income, no access to education and health and have been experiencing hunger. The attitude should be to resolve those problems, not to bring back the old situation which is miserable.” – Wilma Austria
Balikatan wargames expose us to constant dangers from live ammunition, unexploded ordnances, toxic by-products and from being targeted in war by US enemies.
“The reactionary government is only after a ceasefire while the revolutionary movement treats ceasefire as a result of substantive agreements. The reactionary government only wants a ceasefire because it does not want to address the fundamental roots of the armed conflict.” – Benito Tiamzon
Eduardo Serrano is the longest held detainee among the 14 NDFP peace consultants who are covered by the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees.
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com Next to tree planting, the most popular green initiative of politicians today is the adoption of ‘ban plastic’ ordinances. The new normal is the total dislike for anything plastic and the coming together of various...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Official secrecy, obfuscation and outright lies have characterized continuing US military presence and activity in the Philippines since permanent US military bases were booted out in 1991. Whatever information...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Begin with a statement that your so-called allies "need access to Philippine terrain" -- a totally clueless assertion that assumes that your current allies will always be your allies, despite the fact that one of...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “Capitalists will always be capitalists!” This utterance, by a factory worker in Dongguan (Guangdong, China), encapsulates the seething contempt of China’s workers towards their foreign employers, who for...
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