“(The concept of Encantada traces back to the Spanish era) of how the destruction of the environment happened and how the Encantada got so angry. It tells a story about tribes, religion and the destruction of the environment” -- Margie Moran-Floirendo, President of...
Kadayawan, Davao's festival of thanksgiving (Photo by Alex D. Lopez / davaotoday.com)
By RAMZY BAROUD Counterpunch.org Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region. Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The tragic reality is that...
By PHYLLIS BENNIS Counterpunch.org The brave, non-violent Syrian challenge to a brutal dictatorship emerged as part of the Arab risings across the region. But that short Syrian spring of 2011 has long since morphed into an escalation of militarization and death....
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch.org Washington has been at war since October, 2001. This war took a back seat when Bush concocted another excuse to order the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a war that went on without significant success for 8 years and has left Iraq...
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today MAGPET, North Cotabato -- Cousins Kenneth, 13, and Bernie, 12, (not their real names) share almost similar dreams. On their way home from school, the two adolescents enthusiastically shared what they hope to be like when they...
These are misplaced fears based first of all on a secrecy mindset that deny the fundamental right of the citizenry to knowledge of government transactions, decision-making, and policy. They also ignore the crucial role an informed citizenry can and has played in...
By David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org | Report Truthout Here is a link to a list of U.S. troops deployed to various nations around the world: US troops. These are permanent deployments openly admitted to by the U.S. military. When U.S. Special Forces drive off a bridge...
By SAMIRA SHACKLE AlterNet It is said that no publicity is bad publicity, but the bosses of G4S, currently the most hated company in Britain, would have to disagree. In fact, chief executive Nick Buckles was forced to do so publicly. Hauled in front of Parliament...
By GEORGE ZORNICK, The Nation | Report Truthout If you’ve ever had a conversation about the minimum wage with friends and family, you invariably hear an argument about how raising it would hurt small businesses. There is compelling academic research that increasing...
By SONNY AFRICA/IBON Foundation
In closing the 2012 SONA, President Aquino asked rhetorically: “Isn’t the agenda for change moving forward?” Unfortunately after two years, there is clearly no fundamental change and no systematic economic reforms taking place.
While many of the members of the Congress have their attire haute couture and not a few designed by the country’s top fashion (read: expensive) designers like Pitoy Moreno , nationalist lawmakers like Ilagan opted to stay grounded just like the people she vowed to...
Ni RICHARD R. GAPPI Pagkatapos ng SONA, si Arturo Capellan ng Anakbayan-Marikina ay ikinulong at walang pampiyansa. Siya ang kakarga sa lahat ng kaso sa SONA na isasampa ng pulisya laban umano sa mga raliyista. Si Arturo ay galing sa maralitang pamilya, natigil sa...
“EO 79 lacks in social justice. It claims it’s good for the mining industry, but it’s very half-baked.” -- Ateneo de Davao University President Joel Tabora
Ni Joi Barrios Kumusta naman ang iyong kape sa umaga, Habang nanonood o nagbabasa ng balita, Sa mga naganap sa huling SONA? A, oo, isisi natin ang lahat sa raliyista. Isisi natin ang trapik, nasirang gamit, Dumi sa kalyeng hindi nailigpit. Oo, pati kasawain natin...
By IBON Features In his upcoming third State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Benigno Aquino III will surely attempt to highlight how the Philippine economy has improved under his watch to show how his administration is an improvement over its predecessor....
By JOAN GARCIA ILOCOS -- Political activists and journalists are endangered species in the country. With the renewed push of the Aquino government for the encouragement of foreign, large-scale mining operations in the country coupled with the president’s order for...
By JOHN RIZLE SALIGUMBA
Radio workers union hailed the strike as pivotal to the resolution of the labor dispute saying that the “weight of workers’ strike (is) a valid and only option to defend the workers” interest, especially with the current “rampant wage freeze and wage hike moratorium among the yellow traditional labor unions.”
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO “The new woman, the new Filipina, is first and foremost a militant…She is a woman who has discovered the exalting realm of responsibility, a woman fully engaged in the making of history…” - Ma. Lorena Barros, “Liberated Women II” I only...
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