By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “Improving the state of the world” is the avowed mission of the 43rd annual gathering of big capitalists this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, based on a risk assessment (beneath the...
“The Apeco law, which established the freeport zone in the province, ushered a new era of land grabbing and plunder of natural resources to the detriment of the indigenous people, farmers and small fisherfolk in Casiguran, Aurora.
After decades of war, Iraq is a divided and shattered country that seems as far away from peace as ever. Neither the Iraq War nor US involvement in it has ever really ended.
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Among the myriad problems that must be addressed in the national and international efforts to hasten recovery from the devastation left by typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda — and to do it right — an important aspect...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Before Christmas last year, the Manila Electric Company or Meralco, the Philippines’ largest distributor of electrical power with a franchise for 22 cities and 89 municipalities, including the whole of the...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld “The explosion in violence and drug-trafficking related crime... over the past decade has exposed some ugly truths about the nation’s public security institutions. Municipal and state police regularly lack sufficient...
This writer was a youth-student organizer and magazine staff member when the historic uprising in January 16-20, 2001 unfolded at Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa), Mendiola and elsewhere that removed President Estrada from office. The following are diary entries on these events.
"Ordinary people are being banned but big business groups are being welcomed. See. That is the real score in this off-limits zone policy of the Aquino administration." – Pamalakaya
Floods worsened in Davao region and Caraga region (Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley) since this weekend following days of continuous rains.
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star A tempered sense of euphoria, spurred by developments in the US economy (the world’s largest, with gross domestic product at $16.245 trillion), qualifies the assessment that the global economy’s growth would...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld 2013 is past; 2014 is here. Ideally each New Year should be met with great enthusiasm, optimism and anticipation of good, if not better, things to come. Or so most of us can only hope. But the reality in this...
Ni E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Bulatlat.com LEOPOLDO ALONZO [22 Enero 1987: demonstrasyon ng mahigit 20,000 pesante't manggagawa sa harap ng Malakanyang] Ang kaisipan ay tandisang pagtutol sa kung anong katalahagan ang nakatambad sa harap natin... Lupang makulimlim di...
The four-part gathering, which included multi-national cultural performances, a film-showing, and a forum/discussion and fellowship dinner, was held in celebration of Andres Bonifacio's 150th birth anniversary and the 45th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on December 26.
Jay-jay, 12, saw a man pulling a gun against her father Marcelo Monterona last January 3. Her instinct was to throw a stone against her dad’s attacker, but as fear overwhelmed her, she scampered to get home.
“The damage caused by the grounding of USS Guardian on Tubbataha Natural Reef Park is bigger, far more reaching and strategically fatal to the livelihood of Filipino fishermen and to the fishing environment directly linked to the protected reef park.”
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com Third part of four series First part | 13 natural and man-made disasters of 2013 Second part | ‘We Should Legalize Everything’ and Other Shocking Sound Bites of 2013 1. Martilyo. Robbers belonging to the ‘Martilyo...
Growth is becoming more exclusionary with every year of the Aquino administration and its unreformed economic policies By IBON FOUNDATION MANILA — The year 2013 has seen more rapid economic growth, rising foreign investment, and praise from international agencies...
'At this point in its history, the American Republic has arrived under the theory that the President of the United States possesses limitless authority publicly to misrepresent and secretly to control foreign policy, foreign affairs and the war power.'
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