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Allies defend Aquino, progressive groups push for impeachment
“President Aquino knows that the DAP, which is basically an impoundment of budget funds and realigning these to nonexistent projects, is wrong. In fact, he filed a bill SB 3121 as senator illegalizing Pres. Gloria Arroyo’s impoundment of the budget without congressional approval. “ — Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares
The price you pay for freedom| Em Mijares’s story
“It is ironic that I was arrested for exercising my right to free speech during Independence Day itself…While politicians who have been stealing from the nation’s coffers are still free to do as they please, I, who was merely exercising my right, was immediately charged and my rights curtailed.” – Pio Emmanuel Mijares, 19-year-old student
Farmers slam Aquino for absolving Arroyo in fertilizer scam
“Task Force Abono, with the blessing of the Aquino administration, consciously maneuvered to absolve Arroyo and her minions from the plunder of the fertilizer fund scam.” – Antonio Flores, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
The rhetoric–reality divide
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective President Benigno Aquino III reportedly called a Cabinet meeting after the Social Weather Stations (SWS) released the result of its recent survey showing that the unemployment rate rose to 27.5 percent, affecting an estimated 12.1 million Filipinos. Around 2.5 million Filipinos lost their jobs between September and December last year.…
Corruption
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Campaigning in 2010, Benigno Aquino III identified corruption as the cause of Philippine poverty, and promised to put an end to it once he was elected President. It hasn’t been as easy as he seems to have thought. As the network of corruption of which the 10-billion…
Salungguhit: Ghosts of the past
It must have been christmas everyday for nine years for the Arroyo family. They have done everything – corruption, election fraud, political killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations – with impunity. But their sins in the past are now haunting them. The people just hope that the Aquino administration would go beyond exposing…
Anakbayan Urges Young Soldiers to Rethink Blind Obedience to Corrupt Officers (PR)
PRESS RELEASE February 22, 2011 A militant group of young workers, professionals, and students urged their counterparts in the military to ‘rethink’ their values following a series of exposês regarding corruption in the Armed Forces of the Philippines. “While ordinary soldiers, many of them youths like us, are dying in the field of battle, their…
Before Rabusa, There Was Pogoy: Court-Martialed for YouTube Exposé, Ex-Captain Decries ‘Prevalent Corruption’ in Military
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Former Air Force Captain Joenel S. Pogoy, who spent two years in detention after being court-martialed for exposing corruption in the Air Force, says corruption in the military is worse than what is publicly known. The truth is, he says, many military officers — from the time they are still lieutenants to the time they become generals — are being taught by unscrupulous superiors to become corrupt.
Bulatlat Live Coverage: Senate Hearing on Corruption in Philippine Military
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‘Impeaching Ombudsman Is Important Step Toward Justice’
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Groups welcome the Supreme Court’s decision junking the petition by Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez that sought to stop the impeachment case against her in Congress.