While much of the discussion about renewed PH-US relations centers on the military aspect, there is also the equally crucial, if not even more far-reaching, economic dimension of the US pivot to the region By ARNOLD PADILLA IBON FEATURES Bulatlat.com MANILA — US President Barack Obama’s visit underlines the increased bilateral engagement between the Philippines…
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US-PH Relations: Reinforcing Colonial Ties
The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the US is the latest indicator of a resurgent neo-colonialism over the past years By SONNY AFRICA IBON FEATURES Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Philippine government is on the brink of reaching a new agreement with the United States on an even greater American military presence in the country. If…
In crisis: Why the US is pivoting to Asia Pacific
US officials have described the region as crucial to its economic and strategic interests, and which will yield huge returns in US investments By IBON FEATURES Bulatlat.com MANILA — Philippine officials say US President Barack Obama’s visit to the Philippines, the final leg in a series that includes Japan, South Korea and Malaysia, intends to…
The intriguing newness of the New People’s Army
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com The ‘new’ in the communist New People’s Army signifies many things and each deciphering is helpful to understand why this rebel force has never been defeated by successive governments. The original communist-led people’s army was the Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon and Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan. The Huks were a…
Defending economic sovereignty
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld As the visit of US President Obama to Manila looms close, both the Philippine and US governments are drumbeating the signing of the apparently more palatable Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) as a high point while keeping mum about Obama’s equally important and urgent agenda such as the Trans-Pacific…
The sub-über class
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The diversion of pork barrel funds, of which Janet Lim-Napoles and several members of Congress have been accused, could be implemented not only with the collaboration of congressmen and senators and other high level bureaucrat-capitalists. It also needed the sustained efforts of a class of individuals familiar…
Philippine, Japan roles in US ‘rebalancing’ plan
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star When US President Barack Obama comes to Manila on Monday, capping a four-country trip in Asia (Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines), will the Aquino government gift him with a signed agreement that would “give American ships and planes the most extensive access…
Hadlang sa internet freedom ang Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) na inilalako ni Barack Obama
Kontrobersyal ang mga tsapter ng Trans-Pacific Partnership hinggil sa liberalisasyon sa agrikultura; pag-import at pag-eksport ng “textiles”, “apparel”, at “footwear”; intellectual property rights (IPR); serbisyo at pamumuhanan; kontrol sa pamumuhunan at kapital; pribatisasyon ng mga kumpanyang pag-aari ng gobyerno; pangangalaga ng kalikasan; at karapatan ng mga manggagawa.
Throwback to 1946, strengthening US stranglehold on the Philippines
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The Aquino government has been rushing two things in time for the visit of US Pres. Barack Obama: the “Framework Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation” between the US and the Philippines that would provide US troops, warships, submarines, fighter planes and war materials greater access to military camps and other…
Pagdiriwang ng Earth Day, pagdiriwang sa kabayanihan ng mamamayan
Tuwing ika-22 ng Abril ipinagdiriwang ang Earth Day, pandaigdigang selebrasyon ng kalikasan at kapaligiran. Sa bahagi naming mga maka-kalikasang aktibista ng Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment, kinakatampukan ang Earth Day ng samut-saring mga aktibidad sa buong bansa upang itambol ang mga mahahalaga at matatampok na isyung pangkapaligiran na kinakaharap ng mamamayan.
Pagtatapos (o pagtatapos at pagiging gitnang uri)
GUNITA NG SALITA Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Ang pagtatapos (graduation) ay ang pagkaloob ng edukasyonal na institusyon ng akademikong degree sa estudyanteng nagtatapos (ang graduate). Ito ang ofisyal na huling sandali ng pagiging estudyante, ang pagtuldok dito; at ang simula ng pagiging gradwado, ang kagyat na espasyo matapos ang tuldok. Seremonyas lang ang pagtatapos pero…