By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Under the presidency of Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva of the Workers Party, Brazil’s economy grew phenomenally, with vast well-developed agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and service sectors topping all South...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Nearly 2,500 people -- 2,360 to be exact -- died in 2012 in natural disasters in the Philippines, says the nongovernmental Citizens Disaster Response Center (CDRC), putting it ahead of all other countries in the...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The impasse in the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) brings to mind a popular tagline coined by the...
No one in the country can expect much difference in the next election. It should be more “exciting” as there will be more at stake, and the battle will be “winner take all”, but for the mass of people, even an economic trickle will not appear despite the likelihood of continued “growth” from which the ruling class and its political agents will continue to benefit, reaping the rewards of aggressive worker/peasant repression and unbelievable exploitation.
By GILL H. BOEHRINGER Bulatlat.com Read also: Part 1 and Part 3 of this report. Late developments Under pressure from many quarters, Comelec’s stubborn Chair, election lawyer Sixto Brillantes, has finally admitted that there were flaws in the election. This is...
The NPA said their “active counter-intelligence and subsequent operations” were meant to punish AFP units, especially the Civil Military Operations Battalion headed by Maj. Jake Obligado, for continuing to “encroach, settle and conduct psychological warfare and intelligence operations” in the villages of Paquibato District.
By GILL H. BOEHRINGER Bulatlat.com Read also: Part 1 and Part 2 of this report. However you look at it, wealth remains the dominant factor in Philippine elections. In this report, I look at the wealth of those who govern the country through the Senate and House of...
Chibo Tan of the National Federation of Labor Unions said the situation of the city government’s job order and contract of service workers only reflect the system of the current dispensation which implements contractualization, a scheme that does not protect their right to security of tenure.
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The P-Noy government has vowed to resolve the Bangsamoro issue in Mindanao within its six-year-term ending in June 2016, and the presidential adviser on the peace process has assured that the government...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld JUNE 12, 1898, the date when, 115 years ago, Emilio Aguinaldo declared Philippine independence from Spain, was marked this year with the usual speeches, flag-raisings, floral offerings and other rites by officialdom....
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The privatization mantra is being incessantly hummed by the Aquino III administration. Privatization is being promoted to the public as the solution to deteriorated, broken-down and inadequate public utilities...
The players in the cacao industry have targeted to produce one Million metric tons of cacao by 2014. Currently, the target falls short with the country producing only 20,000 MT out of the 130,000 to 150,000 MT target. The country needs to plant cacao to about 130,000 hectares to reach the target.
By Alex Kane AlterNet.org Edward Snowden is in the crosshairs of the Obama administration. The 29-year-old former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency has just become world-famous for his disclosure to The Guardian of the massive surveillance of Americans...
By JESSE ROSENFELD AlterNet.org As a sea of riot police backed by water cannon trucks pushed past the barricades, seizing the center of Taksim Square in a barrage of teargas and rubber bullets, the small environmental protests-turned-urban anti-government revolt...
The youth group Anakbayan expressed support for the whistleblower who exposed the existence of a U.S 'Internet spying' program, and called on Philippine government employees to do the same regarding Internet and communications surveillance likely being done by the Aquino administration.
“In the allocation of water resources, there should be preferential treatment and affirmative action for the poor and marginalized sectors.” – The Filipino People’s Water Code By IBON FOUNDATION IBON Features — The petitioned water rate hike by Metro Manila water...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last June 5, under United Nations auspices, World Environment Day 2013 was observed with the theme, “Think, Eat, Save.” Sadly very little was said about this in the national media. Searching beneath the...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld It is often said that Filipinos, as a general rule, have "short"or "poor" memories. The allusion is not to some racial genetic predisposition to be forgetful. What media commentators and the homegrown Pilosopong...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Benigno Aquino III has been in triumphalist mode since 2010 when he handily won the Presidential elections. Succeeding events since have not moved him from that state. The results of the 2013 mid-term elections have...
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