Ni E. SAN JUAN JR. Bulatlat.com ---"Everyone in the planet is under total surveillance today." --Edward Snowden --"Nothing is meaningless...." --Sissi, sa pelikulang The Princess & the Warrior Gising ka na ba? Anong gumagapang na hayop sa silong? Bakit makulimlim?...
BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com Karl Marx is 196 years old today. With his birth nearly two centuries away from the present, it is amazing how his life and works continue to speak of a man who truly possessed a willpower that was hardly ever negotiable....
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Now we know why the "negotiations" for what would emerge as the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) were conducted under a cloak of secrecy. Not a single byte of the draft was made available to other...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Most Filipinos -- 85% of them, according to a survey by the US-based Pew Research Center -- may think the US their lord and savior. But no matter how convinced they are that their devotion to the US is reciprocated,...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Winding up two-thirds of its six-year term, the P-Noy government came under the severest criticisms on International Labor Day for its basically anti-labor policies and failure to address a broad range of...
Ni LOUISE VINCENT B. AMANTE Bulatlat.com “With Malacanang’s tough branding of human rights violations as leftist propaganda, are the authorities now saying that I will never see my son again?” - Edita Burgos, ina ni Jonas Burgos na ngayo’y desaparecido Edita, Sa...
While much of the discussion about renewed PH-US relations centers on the military aspect, there is also the equally crucial, if not even more far-reaching, economic dimension of the US pivot to the region By ARNOLD PADILLA IBON FEATURES Bulatlat.com MANILA — US...
The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the US is the latest indicator of a resurgent neo-colonialism over the past years By SONNY AFRICA IBON FEATURES Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Philippine government is on the brink of reaching a new agreement with the...
US officials have described the region as crucial to its economic and strategic interests, and which will yield huge returns in US investments By IBON FEATURES Bulatlat.com MANILA — Philippine officials say US President Barack Obama's visit to the Philippines, the...
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com The ‘new’ in the communist New People’s Army signifies many things and each deciphering is helpful to understand why this rebel force has never been defeated by successive governments. The original communist-led...
Probably the last batch of Iskolar ng Bayan graduating in the season of sunflowers, several graduates, activists and faculty members of the University of the Philippines Diliman held the traditional rally at the end of the commencement rites, April 27. They...
Ni JOI BARRIOS Bulatlat.com Ito raw ang ibig sabihin ng pagkakadestiyero: a. sapilitang pagkakatapon sa ibang bayan; b. kusang pagkawalay sa lupang tinubuan. Ipinagluluksa ko ang sandali ng aking pagpili sa pangingibang-bayan. Pero saang puntod luluha at magtitirik...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld As the visit of US President Obama to Manila looms close, both the Philippine and US governments are drumbeating the signing of the apparently more palatable Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) as a...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The diversion of pork barrel funds, of which Janet Lim-Napoles and several members of Congress have been accused, could be implemented not only with the collaboration of congressmen and senators and other high level...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star When US President Barack Obama comes to Manila on Monday, capping a four-country trip in Asia (Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines), will the Aquino government gift him with a signed agreement...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Thirty-three years ago the late Jose W. Diokno, eminent senator, human rights defender and quintessential nationalist, identified four “basic problems” of Philippine society, thus: 1. Widespread deep poverty...
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