Photo of the week: Dancing fountains
Dancing fountains mesmerize those who visit the Quezon City Memorial Circle at night. Photo By Pom Cahilog-Villanueva (Bulatlat.com)
Photo of the week: Dancing fountains
Doing nothing about doing nothing
Doing nothing about doing nothing
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...
Unjustly accused and detained
Unjustly accused and detained
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...
1 in 3 Black Men Go To Prison?
1 in 3 Black Men Go To Prison?
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...
Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War
Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War
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...
Campus radio turns grassroots voice
Campus radio turns grassroots voice
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...
The United States has been enabling torture for decades
The United States has been enabling torture for decades
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...
A Call for US and Afghan Citizens to Question the US/Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement
A Call for US and Afghan Citizens to Question the US/Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement
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...
Photo of the week: Lost Home
Photo of the week: Lost Home
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...
Extreme poverty dips in developing nations
Extreme poverty dips in developing nations
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...
Politicians all
Politicians all
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...
For sake of consumers, gov’t should regulate oil industry to ensure transparent pricing
For sake of consumers, gov’t should regulate oil industry to ensure transparent pricing
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...
Unjustly accused and detained
Unjustly accused and detained
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...
Salungguhit: The face of poverty and struggle
Salungguhit: The face of poverty and struggle
It has been said that the conditions of women and children reflect the extent of poverty in a country because they are the most vulnerable to it. But as the history of March 8, as well as that of other people's struggles in history show, women could also be the...
The Aquino-LP agenda
The Aquino-LP agenda
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld It is no secret that President Noynoy Aquino and the Liberal Party are the prime movers in the campaign to oust Chief Justice Corona from the Suprem Court either through his “voluntary” resignation ala former...
What if Justice Sereno testifies in Corona’s trial?
What if Justice Sereno testifies in Corona’s trial?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star May we ever know if Supreme Court Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno can — or will — testify at the Senate impeachment trial to bolster the prosecution charge that Chief Justice Renato Corona had betrayed public...
Masters and servants
Masters and servants
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld In 1633, the Inquisition declared Galileo guilty of writing a heretical book in which he supposedly favored the Copernican theory that the Sun rather than the Earth was at the center of the (then known) universe. The...
Women protest vs oil pice hikes at oil depot
Women protest vs oil pice hikes at oil depot
Women protest vs oil pice hikes at oil depot (Photo by Jhun Dantes)
Performing Alan Jazmines: a reflection on his prison poem
Performing Alan Jazmines: a reflection on his prison poem
By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com Last February 24, via Pitong Sundang: a dance repertoire by the Sinagbayan (a youth cultural organization based in the University of the Philippines) directed by artist-educator Roselle Pineda, I had the opportunity to...
Women from Bacolod City protest against oil price increase
Women from Bacolod City protest against oil price increase
Women from Bacolod City protest against oil price increase (Photos by OWEN SEGOVIA BAYOG)
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