By Bill Ayers Truthout.org The landscape of “educational reform” is currently littered with rubble and ruin and wreckage on all sides. Sadly, your administration has contributed significantly to the mounting catastrophe. You’re not alone: The toxic materials have...
By ELEANOR J. BADER Truthout.org Although we know what works and what doesn't in sexual education, the US fails its young adults and their families, providing inadequate, inconsistent, medically inaccurate and socially biased information. Depending on where a child...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star One can understand Andres Bautista’s deep frustration in wanting to abolish the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which he has headed since October 2010, although — or because — it has failed to...
By MELANIE PINLAC Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility The failure of the Benigno Aquino III administration to stop the killing of journalists and to speed up the prosecution of cases in court has disappointed journalists, press freedom defenders—and those...
for Stephanie Nicole Ella By MARK ANGELES A pale moth would have alighted on the crown of your head instead of an eyeless bullet. One smokey night of windless, unrestrained detonation, someone’s gun whispered and spat the slug to the air, into the cables of your...
The following are some of college editors' proposed 2013 New Year's Resolution for President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino, as compiled by the College Editors' Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) national office: More prudent spending. The government should monitor spending...
Their vividly colored indigenous clothing shout like a blast of dynamite ripping through the mountains they call home. It is Tuesday and they are standing in a busy avenue in the snotty business district of Makati. “It is where the mining companies are, and if they...
A worker tends to a resort's waterway, scooping flotsam and jetsam on board his bamboo raft. Photo by POM CAHILOG-VILLANUEVA (Bulatlat.com)
By ERICSON ACOSTA Political Prisoner Despite the grim reality of imprisonment, I have not, as of yet, been condemned to a total state of ignorance as far as current efforts of various committed art and cultural groups and alliances are concerned. Thanks largely to...
Human Rights Day 2012: Protesters took to the streets to condemn human rights violations under Noynoy Aquino's regime
By CONG B. CORRALES Bulatlat.com CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Opposition to a proposed law, aimed at turning public hospitals into government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) has snowballed, here. This, despite its proponents' claim that the bill would boost...
By JULIUS D. MARIVELES Bulatlat.com BACOLOD CITY – A pastoral worker who was nabbed inside a convent decried the seemingly Gestapo tactics employed by the Regional Intelligence Unit of the Philippine National Police when they served the arrest warrant against her...
By SIDLANGAN NATIVIDAD Bulatlat.com MANILA - Daisy Paborada, a farmer, 41, and her late spouse had once ploughed their share of the 520-hectare ancestral domain along with the rest of the Higaonon tribe. Since 2003, the Paborada family had enjoyed their simple and...
By SIDLANGAN NATIVIDAD Bulatlat.com MANILA– Student journalists from different student publications under the banner of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines-NCR (CEGP) held a protest action in front of the Mendiola Peace Arch a day before the November 23...
Brad Adams, Asia director for the Human Rights Watch, said the Ampatuan massacre has “brought to light” the dangers posed by private armies, militias, and paramilitaries in the country “but the administration of President Benigno Aquino III has not seriously...
By SID NATIVIDAD Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) once filed a case against the Abu Sayyaf back in 2007 for the alleged decapitation of slain Marines in Basilan. Five years later, another complaint has been filed not by the AFP but...
IBON Features / November 2012 Through the years, large-scale mining has caused deforestation and pollution as well as irreversible destruction to the ecology IBON Features – For spilling more than 15 million cubic meters of mine sediments from its Padcal mine...
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Fr. Geremia said a witness in their custody narrated that former Arakan Police chief Benjamin Rioflorido was the one who accosted the paramilitary troops who were out to assassinate Tentorio on October 15, 2011. The paramilitary troops were said to have a sack of firearms and the military’s Capt. Mark Espiritu was allegedly the one who signed to release the firearms.
America on the Cusp of Fascism By NORMAN POLLACK Counterpunch I use “fascism” here not as a cliché, but as an historical-structural formation principally rooted in the mature stage of capitalism, in which business-government interpenetration (what the Japanese...
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