By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld THANKS TO some priests and bishops of the Catholic Church, and with considerable help from the media, the debate on the consolidated Reproductive Health bill (House Bill 4244) pending in the House of Representatives...
Media Release May 28, 2011 Four consecutive successful military actions were launched by units under the Pulang Diwata Command-New People’s Army against enemy troops in the mountain areas of Agusan del Norte. Two (2) were killed and four (4) were wounded from the...
by: Rinaldo Brutoco and Madeleine Austin, World Business Academy Truthout The US Senate couldn't muster the votes to end $2 billion a year in taxpayer subsidies for the five biggest US oil companies. The House had already voted to block efforts to repeal tax breaks...
By David Bacon Truthout SAN JOSE, CA 5/17/11) -- Members of the city workers union in San Jose, the capital of California's Silicon Valley, marched Tuesday to City Hall and packed the council chambers, in a growing confrontation with Mayor Chuck Reed over proposed...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Having borne two children of my own and having struggled to do my part in raising a family while practicing my profession in the field of public health and avidly pursuing my social and political causes, I submit...
RH Bill, a debate between men?
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld MEDIA ADVOCACY and journalists’ groups marked World Press Freedom Day last May 3 after a year (May 3, 2010- May 2, 2011) of continuing violence against the media. Iraq and Afghanistan, where they faced the usual...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “Cases of extrajudicial killings need to be solved, not just identify the perpetrators but have them captured and sent to jail.” This was Noynoy Aquino’s statement in a meeting with European Union ambassadors...
By Pat Rey Lara Bulatlat.com In all honesty, I find Economics boring. From GNP to Inflation, the terms give me a headache. Some people are lucky enough to get along with Economics and unfortunately, not me. Just consider me as a confused and curious teenager trying...
Un-commercialized beauty
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Remember Jovito Palparan Jr., the notorious Philippine Army officer tagged by militant political activists as “The Butcher”? In 2007 the Melo Commission recommended Palparan’s investigation for extrajudicial...
By Paul Craig Roberts Trends Research Institute Until the decline of the dollar reached the breaking point, Osama bin Laden, who many experts believe to have been dead for years, was a useful bogeyman to use to feed the profits of the US military/security complex....
By Joshua Holland AlterNet The Obama administration deftly shaped the media coverage of its prized kill by detailing a picture-perfect, morally unambiguous special forces operation, which culminated in the death of Osama bin Laden. Most of the details of that...
By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) A major victim in this electoral exercise is the people's right to know. By consistently imposing rigid guidelines and restrictions to "make available the source code for independent review," the Comelec...
Lolo is never too old for the news
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