By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com It took more than a year before the Aquino administration filed a case against former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. This despite demands from various sectors to hold the former president to account for her numerous crimes against the Filipino people and the preponderance of evidence gathered by the different Congressional investigations. It…
Category: Commentary
Coke at proyekto ng ekstraksyon ng happiness
Ni ROLAND B. TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Wala namang di matitinag sa bagong viral video ng Coke (Coca-cola ang formal nitong pangalan) . Nagsisimula sa opening title na may 11 milyong overseas Filipino workers. At may tatlo itong tutukan: si Joe Marie Ballon, isang X-ray technologist, limang taon nang hindi nakauwi nang matagal at may amang maysakit,…
Prometheus Bound: Remembrance and resistance
By Frances Quimpo The history of protecting the Philippine environment and the country’s natural resources is a history of resistance: stories of valiant struggle and often untold sacrifices by people and communities to protect their lands, mountains, rivers, and seas from the threat of plunder for profit. In order to recognize the valiant struggles of…
Give political prisoners and peace talks a break!
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star With perseverance and assertiveness, political prisoners in various detention centers begin today a week-long fasting-hunger strike, culminating on December 10, International Human Rights Day. Their demand: Free all political prisoners! Joining the coordinated protest action are prisoners held at the National Penitentiary and those…
Battle for justice
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Forces in the Philippine political landscape are gearing up for a major legal and political battle. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her husband’s attempts to leave the country and escape the proverbial long arm of the law, ironically by utilizing a favorable Supreme Court order, were foiled by Justice…
Forgetting and not knowing
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld In an attempt to validate his earlier claim that the country is under threat from “creeping martial law” during the Aquino III administration, Senator Joker Arroyo said last Tuesday that the Marcos martial law regime used the exact same argument — that the police powers of the…
Sinking to abysmal depths
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The widening rift between the executive, led by President Benigno Aquino III, and the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Renato Corona, has been hogging the headlines of all the major media networks. The first salvo was fired by President Aquino during a forum sponsored by the Makati Business Club last…
Piolo Pascual at corporate homophobia
Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Balitaktakan itong paksa ukol sa sexualidad ni Piolo Pascual na pinasabog ng interview ni Boy Abunda kay KC Concepcion. Ang sanhi: nagkumpisal si KC kay Boy Abunda. Sa clip na gamit ay close-ups ng mga mukha ng dalawa. Si Boy ay pinapalabas na interrogator, walang pinapanigan, walang kinikilingan-mode. Si KC naman…
Prometheus Bound: Scientists and Heroes
By Giovanni Tapang, PhD Bulatlat.com November 30 marked the birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio, Filipino nationalist and revolutionary and Supremo of the Katipunan. His anniversary yesterday was marked by protests actions in the metropolis by workers and peasants due to the ever increasing costs of living nowadays. Pressed by current economic concerns, the celebration of…
Tragic hero
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld MANILA — Tondo is in the popular mind Manila’s workers’ district, although some sociologists point out, as they did when Manuel Villar was running for President in 2010 and hoping to win by passing himself off as poor, that it has never been all-proletarian, being home also…
Battle for justice
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Forces in the Philippine political landscape are gearing up for a major legal and political battle. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her husband’s attempts to leave the country and escape the proverbial long arm of the law, ironically by utilizing a favorable Supreme Court order, were foiled by Justice…