Category: Commentary

By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Some broadcast news reports were calling it “a massacre” hardly after the last shots had been fired. Not to be outdone, their colleagues in print said it was “a slaughter.” In the days that followed, the Philippine news media were engaged in a race for scoops, in…

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective What happened on February 6, 2015 was unprecedented. This is the first time that a president has made a nationwide address on the same issue twice. (Without saying anything substantial – but that is another matter). This shows that President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is still reeling from the aftershock…

The neoliberal bane and the 3Ps (Peace talks, People’s pope, People’s war)

BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO The liberal tide that once set apart emergent capitalism from feudalism’s obsolescence is now a plague that threatens all living systems. Neoliberalism aims to prolong capitalism’s lease on lives and labor by converting what the latter identifies as last frontiers into its own likeness. And it does this through the…

Lessons from the Mamasapano fiasco

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The Mamasapano fiasco that killed 44 policemen, who came from its elite unit, has generated so much reaction from the public that it compelled President Aquino to explain how and why this blunder happened – although what he did was to merely blame somebody else. Let us not put the…