By BENJIE OLIVEROS
If there would be no major deviation from the same policy directions the Aquino administration is pursuing, no amount of claims of change would hold when tested on the realities of worsening poverty, social inequities, and injustices.
By Giovanni Tapang, PhD Bulatlat.com At the end of each year, we usually take stock of what transpired and assess our strengths and weaknesses in order to do better next year. Usually in the form of “New Year’s Resolutions,” we list down what we have to do for the next 365 days. In the light…
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star As we celebrate Christmas, dear readers, let us extend our collective hand of solidarity to the survivors among the thousands of families, mostly the very poor, who have been ravaged by floods and landslides triggered by tropical storm “Sendong,” especially those in Cagayan de…
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If the Aquino III administration ignored warnings from the environmental and science communities long before Sendong that a disaster was coming in Mindanao, it wouldn’t be any more unique than past administrations. From 1992 to 2001 some 6,000,000 Filipinos were killed or injured by various disasters, whether…
Ni Roland Tolentino Bulatlat.com Sa dami ng itinatayong bagong gusali, tila may nabubuong skyline ang Metro Manila. Maganda raw sa feng shui ang skyline dahil tulad ng Great Wall of China, kaya nitong I bloke ang negative energies. At tulad ng photogenic shots ng “great cities,” tulad ng Chicago, New York, Shanghai, Seoul at Tokyo,…
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star As the Christmas and New Year holidays approach, the air of economic uncertainty dampens the traditionally anticipated spirit of merriment and hope among the people in the United States and Europe. Why? The financial and economic measures requiring more austerity instead of more spending,…
By Jose Leon Dulce Bulatlat.com As the year comes to a close, it now appears that Typhoon Sendong (international name Washi) is the eadliest storm of 2011. It affected more than 27,000 families in around 190 barangays, in 24 municipalities and cities in the 13 provinces of Region VI, Region VII, Region IX, Region X,…
Ni Roland Tolentino Bulatlat.com May 500 milyong downloads na ang online na game na ito, at may 300 milyong oras na paglalaro araw-araw. Ang pinaunlad ng isang Finnish computer game developer Rovio Mobile noon pang 2009 ay ngayon kabahagi na ng kulturang popular: bina-ban sa bansa na pirated toys dahil sa kanyang toxic content, may…
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “Our gathering this morning is an opportunity to further assess the strengths and weaknesses of the present criminal justice system, and to come up with new and timely initiatives concerning the delivery of justice… Your decisions and the steps you take have implications integral…
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld In our previous column entitled “Battle for Justice”, we said that a big battle is looming to bring the Arroyos to justice. Few outside the innermost circles of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino would have foreseen that the initial major skirmish would take the form of an impeachment move against…
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The main complaint by his mostly lawyer partisans against the impeachment of Renato Corona is that it was done too quickly, followed by claims that it’s an attack on the Supreme Court’s independence, and is unconstitutional besides. Minority Congressman and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ally Edcel Lagman is leading…