The Philippines has reached its own version of an impasse. On one side are the Filipino people demanding for the abolition of pork barrel and discretionary funds, including that of President Aquino’s, and on the other side is the Aquino administration, which has been adamantly defending the pork barrel fund. . .
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Since the massive, largely spontaneous public expression of outrage last August 26 in light of the P10-billion Napoles pork barrel scam, subsequent events and revelations have only validated and underscored the...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Before US President Barack Obama canceled his visit to the Philippines and Malaysia, and eventually to Brunei and Indonesia because of the US Federal government shutdown, a group of US Congressmen urged him to...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The mood was somber at the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit held in Bali, Indonesia, among the leaders of 21 countries (including President Aquino) on two key concerns: global economic growth...
Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) added its voice to demands of human rights groups, youth groups, teachers and scientists calling for the release of UP professor Kim Gargar, who is presently being detained in the Davao Oriental...
Same, same bad pork: ‘Chop-chop’ contracts, duplicate projects, etc.
By Charmaine Lirio Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism IT SEEMS the heads of five government corporations would not be the only ones on the chopping board for implementing the anomalous pork barrel projects recently reported by the Commission on Audit...
Rania Khalek: Government shutdown means halting social services while maintaining NSA spying, deportations and continuing drone strikes in Afghanistan
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The Aquino regime’s gross abuse and misuse of public funds through the now discredited and derided pork barrel system is becoming fully unmasked what with the disclosure of how Malacañang has been illegally...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld With the shutdown of the US federal government, President Barack Obama has cancelled his visits to the Philippines and Malaysia but will still fly to Brunei and Indonesia. What seems to have driven the decision to...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The revelations on the ramifications and grave misuse of the pork-barrel system — the latest of which involves the Disbursement Acceleration Program, concocted by Budget Secretary Florencio Abad Jr. and now...
Ni Therresa Baniquid Bulatlat.com Nakanganga na naman si Juan Nang siya ay maisahan Nitong mga kawatan Mga magnanakaw sa kaban. Halagang nalustay di biro Nakakalulang bilyong piso Sinangkalan mga pekeng NGO's Nakinabang ay iilang tao! Yaman ay pinghati-hatian...
“It is the government’s responsibility to serve the people. We, as citizens, have the right and capacity to search for the truth regarding how our government is being run and how our taxes are being used. “ – Archbishop of Nueva Segovia Ernesto Salgado
It has been a long way since from the culture of the Katipunan to the present pork barrel system in the Philippines, a legacy of colonial US to the country to make its political protégées follow its bidding.
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The collectivism of the Katipunan has been drowned out by the noise and hurly-burly of self-centered modern living and the pursuit of unbridled political ambitions by some, which have wrought havoc among our people.
Ni Rogelio L. Ordoñez Bulatlat.com Ikaw, ikaw na utak-guro Ay saan nga ba patungo? Manungaw ka Sa bintana ng kaluluwa At butasin ng mga mata Ang pader ng pagkaaba... Bawat mansiyon at palasyo'y Silipin ang mga kuwarto At matutong mag-atado Ng bituka't mga apdo......
The National Ulama Conference of the Philippines in the Zambasulta Region said his group and civil society organizations offered viable options to break the standoff sooner between the MNLF followers of Misuari, and state security forces in Zambo.
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Truthout So much has been accomplished by Occupy and other social justice movements in the past two years that it is incredible the corporate media and their pundits do not report on what is happening around them. Despite the...
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