By JM Ayuste A few days ago, I was chatting with one Agham Youth member about our organizational principles and concerns. Our conversation steered to the need to establish and instill a culture of scientific inquiry and objectivity while grounding it on the needs of the masses. Since this idea was relatively new for her,…
Year: 2015
The prayer
By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Pangakong muling pinagtitibay
Ni Raymund Villanueva Para kay Alfonso G. Cahilog (1930-2015) Hinayaan mo akong mamilipit at mautal sa pamamanhikan Alam kong natatawa ka rin sa kabila ng lungkot na ramdam. Sino ba itong dayong mula sa hilagang lupain? Sino ba itong pinagtawanan ng iba mo pang supling? Sino ba itong kumakatok at umaamong inyong makapiling? Sino ba…
Politics as slapstick
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The Philippine media as of this writing (December 16) was having a field day reporting the “slapping challenge,” the fistfight, or even the gun duel between Rodrigo R. Duterte and Manuel “Mar” A. Roxas II. Both, for the enlightenment of anyone who’s been living in a cave…
Far-right party sustains rise in France
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Since France’s anti-foreigner far-right party, the National Front managed to reach a second-round presidential run-off election in 2002 – when its founder Jean-Marine Le Pen was trounced by Jacques Chirac with 82 percent of the votes – it hasn’t really alarmed the political establishment…
Of presidents past, and wannabes of 2016
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The not so funny anymore, exasperating slapstick being imposed on the public by presidential wannabes Mar Roxas and Rodrigo Duterte is a testament to how elections in this country have sunk to such depths. And if surveys are to be believed, the two are among the top four candidates, with…
Citing folly of LRT-MRT corporate control, drivers, operators want modernization but not thru DOTC’s way
The government-dictated phase out cum modernization program would result in killing of local operators and manufacturers, joblessness for current jeepney drivers, the takeover of big corporations and consequently, higher fares, warned the protesters.
Full time and all the way
On “More Than A Red Warrior” (Arnold Borja Jaramillo: Beloved Son of Abra). 2015. Luchie Maranan ed. Philippines: Family and friends of AJ Jaramillo. 351pp. BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO Genuine recognition of revolution entails a concrete consideration of the human condition. One aspect of which is how people live and die as revolutionaries. This…
‘The future of the planet is in our hands’
“The future of our climate is in peril if we allow polluter countries and companies to run the world on its business-as-usual pathway.”
Green groups declare COP21 ‘dead’
“Negotiators have failed to come up with a long-delayed climate protocol that imposes obligated, quantified, and ambitious emissions cuts on industrialized countries and their corporations.”
At COP21, the people and future generations will be failed once again
Instead of providing solutions, COP21 has negotiated a future that is still on path to heating Earth from 3 to 7 degrees Celsius (°C) within this century.