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As 2010 Polls Draw Near, Unprecedented Fraud, Violence, ‘No-El’ Loom

As 2010 Polls Draw Near, Unprecedented Fraud, Violence, ‘No-El’ Loom

By ARNOLD PADILLA
Underneath the never-ending and intensifying political conflict is the permanent and worsening crisis of the economy. The raging economic crisis feeds the growing dispute among the various factions of the political elite contending for control of political power and monopoly of economic spoils – a conflict that has become more pronounced and increasingly vicious under the nine-year old Arroyo administration.

| Dec 11, 2009

Ampatuan Massacre Raises Level of Barbarity in Philippine Politics

Ampatuan Massacre Raises Level of Barbarity in Philippine Politics

By BENJIE OLIVEROS
The impunity in recent political killings in the Philippines could have emboldened the Ampatuan clan to commit the massacre. If the perpetrators of more than a thousand extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of political activists could walk scot-free, perhaps, they thought, they could get away with killing less than a hundred people.

| Nov 30, 2009

For Oil Firms, EO 839 Is Not Just About Dip in Profits but Potential Shift Vs. Deregulation

For Oil Firms, EO 839 Is Not Just About Dip in Profits but Potential Shift Vs. Deregulation

By ARNOLD PADILLA
To a certain degree, Executive Order 839 questioned the lies long peddled by the oil companies and staunch defenders of neoliberalism about neoliberal free market economics. If left unchallenged, EO 839 could become a precedent in policy making: that the government, in the name of public good and welfare, could take decisive action against abusive corporations.

| Nov 13, 2009

Why Consumers Should Not Rejoice Over Oil-Price Rollback Enforced by Arroyo

Why Consumers Should Not Rejoice Over Oil-Price Rollback Enforced by Arroyo

By ARNOLD PADILLA
While it is supposed to be based on the Oil Deregulation Law, the executive order mandating the recent price rollback in effect puts into question the wisdom of oil deregulation. Moreover, the oil companies have found a way to offset whatever “losses” they would incur in Luzon due to the EO: by overpricing in the Visayas and Mindanao.

| Oct 28, 2009

Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions

Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions

By GILL H. BOEHRINGER
By seeking to convince its readers that the effects of Ondoy were “felt equally by rich and poor” and that it was a “great equalizer,” the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the most influential newspaper in the Philippines, was attempting to bolster the view that the Filipino class system had nothing to do with the disaster, and that the lives of all Filipinos are shaped by the same forces of nature, even by fate or by God.

| Oct 23, 2009

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