By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Reacting to my March 24 column piece, titled “Stop privatizing public health services, facilities!” Health Secretary Enrique Ona e-mailed me this note: “I may agree with you in some points, but let me assure...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In the past weeks I have tracked news reports and analyses on the phenomenon of income inequality — or the gap between the few rich and “everybody else” — in the United States, the bastion of world...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In the nine years (ending in 2010) that I served as legislator in the House of Representatives, I devoted considerable time and efforts to three advocacies: 1) human rights and peace; 2) national independence...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld If peace could be won through press releases and other public announcements, the Bangsamoro should be exercising their right to self-determination and enjoying genuine autonomy by now. The Government of the...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Filipinos have a love-hate relationship with their countrymen in other climes. It’s a relationship defined by class boundaries, in that most Filipinos love them while some don’t, and even despise them. Those...
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY– “Katrina”, 16 was a bright high school senior at the Cabiten National High School in Mankayan town, Benguet. She is an honor student and according to her family, an obedient child. But her bright future was marred by a...
By Allyn V. Baldemor Online social networks mobilized hours after Noemi Lagman, 21, was reported to have been missing January 6, 2010. The student of Asia Pacific College Magallanes left her house in Multinational Village in Paranaque between 9 and 10am. Last seen...
Dancing fountains mesmerize those who visit the Quezon City Memorial Circle at night. Photo By Pom Cahilog-Villanueva (Bulatlat.com)
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld You know what they say about protesting too much, but that’s what the Aquino government has been doing since student activists coined the term "Noynoying" to mean "not doing anything despite the need to do...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld In the fabled Land of Yellow where the President lays claim to the democratic mantle by being progeny to parents who fought a dictator, there lies hidden in the crowded, dank and dark crevices of the realm some...
The 10 Most Disturbing Facts About Racial Inequality in the U.S. Criminal Justice System In light of these disparities, it is imperative that criminal-justice reform evolves as the civil rights issue of the 21st century. By Sophia Kerby The American Prospect March...
By Chris Hedges Published March 19, 2012 TruthDig.com The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where it is clear that you are...
By KARA SANTOS Inter Press Service Reposted by Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Since it first hit the airwaves more than 50 years ago, the University of the Philippines (UP)'s campus radio has evolved into a community broadcaster, serving as the voice of the people. DZUP...
By: Mark Karlin, Truthout | Interview Truthout.org Marjorie Cohn – a law professor and past president of the National Lawyer's Guild – has assembled a compelling interdisciplinary anthology on the "normalization" of torture as an extension of American foreign...
By THE AFGHAN YOUTH PEACE VOLUNTEERS War is a crime / Truthout.org The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers question the presumption that the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan is necessary for American or Afghan peace. Tragedies like the Kandahar killing spree which...
Mandaluyong City--The future is uncertain for a child who lost her home caused by demolition. She lost her home during the demolition in Nuebe de Pebrero, Mandaluyong City last October 2011. Photo By Chantal Eco...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star As governments, economists and investors fret and wonder when the current global recession will end — with its record levels of unemployment and impoverishment in the US and Europe — the World Bank has issued...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The battle over the impeachment of Renato Corona is being fought between the camp of Benigno Aquino III and that of Renato Corona, who is no less a politician than, say, your garden-variety congressman. Corona meets...
By SONNY AFRICA IBON Foundation, Inc. As the world marks International Consumer Rights Day, research group IBON said that the consuming public, which bears the brunt of unabated oil price hikes, has the right to know how the oil companies determine oil prices. The...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld In the fabled Land of Yellow where the President lays claim to the democratic mantle by being progeny to parents who fought a dictator, there lies hidden in the crowded, dank and dark crevices of the realm some...
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