By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Julian Assange could be Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2010. If he is so named, he will be in the same company as Charles Lindbergh (1927), Mahatma Gandhi (1930), Queen Elizabeth II (1952), Pope John Paul II (1994) Barack Obama (2008) and…
Category: Commentary
Benjie Oliveros | What to Make of the Truth Commission Setback
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The Supreme Court has declared Executive Order 1, creating a Truth Commission to investigate the corruption cases of the previous Arroyo administration, as unconstitutional citing the equal protection clause of the Constitution as basis. This is strike two for the administration of Pres. Benigno Aquino III. Earler, the Supreme Court issued…
Whitewash in The Investigation On The Deaths of Co, Cortez, and Borromeo Feared
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The physical evidence gathered in the fact finding mission revealed that the trajectories of bullets were coming from and going to only one direction, refuting the military’s claim that there was a supposed gun battle between the military and members of NPA.
Luis V. Teodoro | Unkindest Cut
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com They’re called state universities and colleges (SUCs) — part of a public educational system that’s supposed to enable those who either can’t afford to pay the huge fees most private schools charge, or who simply prefer schools where winning basketball games isn’t a matter…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Education Blues
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com The adage that Filipino families put top priority on education – after basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter – is often held up as an example of traditional values that we can be proud of as a people and that holds us in good…
Benjie Oliveros | A Double Standard in the Administration of Justice
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and his colleagues who participated in the Oakwood mutiny and who later stood their ground amid offers of the previous administration to sacrifice their principles in exchange for their freedom would finally be released, most probably before Christmas. Rightfully so, because their only ‘crime’ was their…
Benjie Oliveros | The Imperative of Justice
From the time of his inauguration up to the present, President Benigno Aquino III has not made any policy statement or measure that would push for human rights. It is as if human rights and civil liberties were not under attack during the previous administration. By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com The dispensation of justice and…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Tragic Loss Amid Climate of Impunity
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Leonard Co, unarguably one of the country’s foremost botanists and biodiversity experts, as well as an indefatigable conservationist, was killed in a forested area in Kananga, Leyte last Monday, together with two of his companions, while undertaking scientific explorations under the auspices of the Energy Development…
Benjie Oliveros | Reproductive Health, A Simple Yet Complicated Issue
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com Every now and then, the debate over the proposed reproductive health bill heats up. The most recent salvo was when Catholic bishops declared, with dramatic flair, their determination to fight the bill even if it becomes a law, saying that they are willing to “go to prison” for refusing to…
Luis V. Teodoro | Two Elections
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Elections this November took place in two countries that are geographically far apart, and have practically nothing in common. But the results were in both cases as expected, although due to widely different reasons. In the case of the national elections, the first in…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Take Two on the Morong 43
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com One would wish that at least part of then presidential candidate “Noynoy” Aquino’s campaign line were unequivocally true – that having been a victim of oppression under martial rule when his father “Ninoy” was kept in solitary confinement by his arch enemy, dictator Ferdinand Marcos, he…