By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Apolinario Mabini, Jose Abad Santos, Claro M. Recto, Jose W. Diokno, and Lorenzo M. Tanada. What do these historical figures have in common? They were all lawyers and patriots, yes. Above and beyond that, at crucial junctures in Philippine history, these men proved to [...]
Friday, May 25, 2012By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Renato Corona was in intensive care as of this writing after supposedly suffering last Tuesday a hypoglycemic attack which, coincidentally I’m sure, came right after his three-hour “opening statement” at the Senate impeachment court. His confinement for observation on his doctors’ orders was also preemptive, hypoglycemia being, [...]
Friday, May 25, 2012By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Until last Tuesday, it seemed to a growing number of people that the Corona impeachment trial had become a huge waste of time and resources. That is to say, for the Senate which otherwise should have paid attention to myriad matters of national importance; for the prosecutors and defense [...]
Friday, May 25, 2012By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Chief Justice Renato Corona finally took the witness stand after he was urged, pressured, and challenged for weeks. He is practically the only defense witness whose testimony has been declared as material to the impeachment proceedings. Senate Pres. Juan Ponce Enrile ruled that the testimonies of the other witnesses presented by [...]
Thursday, May 17, 2012By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Yes, this is nothing new: that the wheels of justice in our courts grind excruciatingly slow, and that the victims are mostly the poor who are arrested, detained and charged with common, even petty, crimes. This fact has been generally known, and frustratingly acknowledged [...]
Thursday, May 17, 2012By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Journalists’ and media advocacy groups marked World Press Freedom Day on May 3 this year as in the past years. But as if by agreement, they avoided the word “celebrated,” echoing a National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) statement marking the occasion in 2010 that [...]
Thursday, May 17, 2012By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The docking of the USS North Carolina (SSN77) at Subic Bay, May 13, appears to be a sign that the issue of US military bases and the concomitant presence of US military troops has gone full circle. The submarine is being touted as “one of the stealthiest, most technologically advanced submarines [...]
Friday, May 11, 2012By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com In its “Food Security and Poverty in Asia and the Pacific” report released the first week of May, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) noted that while the Philippines achieved a reduction in poverty (in terms of official statistics), it still has to address undernourishment and hunger. The release of the report [...]
Thursday, May 10, 2012By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star As the 45th Asian Development Bank governors’ annual meeting closes today at the PICC, it’s apt to look back and see how the regional bank, established in 1966 with permanent headquarters in the Philippines, has fulfilled — or failed to fulfill — its primary [...]
Thursday, May 3, 2012By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Rarely does one see Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to be so unequivocal and firm about policy issues. But recently, he did exhibit political will and decisiveness. Unfortunately for the working people, he demonstrated his resolve in rejecting two important issues confronting the Filipino worker: the call for a P125 increase [...]
Friday, April 27, 2012By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last April 18-19, invited by the Patriotiko Mindanao alliance, I joined the culminating activities in Zamboanga City of the 2012 Mindanao-wide anti-Balikatan protest billed as “People’s Caravan and Lakbayan against US Militarism and Plunder.” It was an exhilarating experience for me for two reasons: [...]
Filipinos join protests against NATO in Chicago, US (Photo by Brett Jelinek / Bulatlat.com)
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