By ANDRE VLTCHEK Counterpunch.org It is all about barbed wire, warnings and checkpoints. And to make it worse, Futenma air force base is right in the middle of an extremely densely populated urban area. Several middle-aged Japanese citizens are besieging the sedans...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld “The bill should make us realize that never again should we allow the atrocities of the Marcos regime to happen in this country.” The “bill” Senator Francis Escudero was referring to is the Human Rights Victims...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star As expected, President Aquino and his economic team wax euphoric over the official report that the national economy expanded by 6.6% in 2012, from 3.9% growth rate in 2011. “It is a resounding affirmation of...
MinDA through the Mindanao Power Monitoring Committee is looking into renewable energy sources or those that come from natural sources like the geothermal heat, rain, sunlight, tides, waves and wind. By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today DAVAO CITY, Philippines –...
Press Statement 1 February 2013 We are elated upon hearing the report that our fellow overseas Filipino worker Rogelio ‘Dondon’ Lanuza, at long last, will soon be freed after the Saudi government reportedly shouldered the payment of 2.3-M riyals of blood money...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The passage of the landmark Marcos human rights victims compensation bill or the “Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013” is a most welcome development even if reservations persist about how...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Thursday (Jan. 24), President Aquino delivered the keynote address in a forum, on the topic “Partnering Against Corruption Initiative,” at the highly expensive 43rd World Economic Forum in Davos,...
Press Release 30 January 2013 Taft, Manila— Members of the youth sector convened at the Iglesia Filipina Independiente for the launching of Rock the Vote Philippines, a youth network that advocates for clean, peaceful, and responsive elections. The delegates...
by IBON Foundation Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Pointing out that more jobs and lower poverty incidence are more important development indicators, research group IBON criticized Pres. Benigno Aquino for overemphasizing the performance of the local stock market and...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld This column has been absent for some time due to health issues confounding its writer. The prolonged leave from political and social activism and the lengthy pause from writing a weekly column in this paper had...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld What's a Philippine election for that one should once more be inflicted on us? It’s certainly not so the citizenry can elect new leaders–or even remotely better ones, that possibility being nil with the dominance of...
By RALPH NADER Commondreams.org Mike Duke CEO ?Walmart Corporation?Bentonville Arkansas Dear Mr. Duke, Walmart, your gigantic company, is increasingly being challenged by your workers, government prosecutors, civil lawsuits, communities (that do not want a...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “I am now in a position to influence the implementation of (Oplan) Bayanihan as chief of staff because I now become its operational commander. Unlike when I was the CGPA (commanding general of the Philippine...
By RITCHE T. SALGADO Bulatlat.com CEBU CITY -- With the continuing growth of the Business Process Outsourcing sector, a partylist lawmaker expressed the urgency for government to look after the welfare of the sector's workers. “We should be happy that Cebu has...
Ni E. San Juan, Jr. Bawat umaga binibilang ng militanteng Alan Jazmines kung ilang linggo, buwan, taon na siya nakapiit at kailan maitutuwid ang baluktot na hustisya Abo na lamang ang apoy kagabi sa kampo sa Sierra Madre ngunit may titis pang umuusok,...
Letter to the Editor January 17, 2013 The more than 5,000 protesters in a previous 12-hour barricade in Montevista, Compostela Valley last January 15 were not there for fame. They wanted to live. The Philippine Army's spokesperson Major Jake Obligado easily...
As Pablo already claimed the lives of 990 individuals and damaged over PHP 21 billion in agriculture and infrastructure in the Davao region alone, Panalipdan said it is not enough to just give relief goods and help for the rebuilding of lives of affected people in...
The experience of India may be a case in point in warning all the poor women and men in the Philippines that such step is just a beginning in policy changes that may hamper gender equality and women empowerment. It requires people’s vigilance as to remind us of India’s case. India has been a population control/reproductive health project of the USA and Europe where these countries take history of policies along population control for the global consumption.
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