By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com The ongoing trial of foremost Maguindanao massacre suspect, Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., has raised hopes in some quarters that justice will be soon rendered to the 58 victims (57 whose remains have been found with 1 still missing). Four other Ampatuans including the patriarch, former…
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Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Frankenstein Begets Frankenstein
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com The declaration of martial law in Maguindanao is not the answer to the cry for justice for the victims of the Nov. 23 massacre allegedly perpetrated by top local government officials allied to the Arroyo regime – all members of the warlord Ampatuan clan –…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Clinging to Reins of Power
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat Her term ending in June 2010, de facto president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo finally filed her candidacy as congresswoman in the second district of Pampanga, her hometown, ending all speculation that she would seek the post. The prevarication and manipulation that preceded it, the orchestrated “clamor” for…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Carnage Waiting to Happen
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com It was a carnage waiting to happen. In the wild, wild province of Maguindanao, ruled since 2001 by the Ampatuan clan, long-time political allies of de facto President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Nov. 23 massacre of 57 people and counting, could be chalked up as another…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Kabataan Partylist Shows the Way
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat For all intents and purposes, election rules be hanged, the campaign for the 2010 elections began several months ago. The ubiquitous paid political ads, the news headlines and opinion pages herald the fact. But except for the laudable efforts of a few media outlets, the…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | The Curious Case of Chiz Escudero
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com Yesterday, Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero, a popular contender in the May 2010 presidential elections, resigned from his party, the National People’s Coalition, in a clear bid to distance himself from NPC Chair, business tycoon and putative presidential kingmaker, Mr. Danding Cojuangco. The announcement sent shockwaves…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Solutions or Band-Aid?
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Who was it who said that the best way to ensure that nothing gets done is to create a committee? The Arroyo government’s announcement of the formation of the Special National Public-Private Sector Reconstruction Commission tasked “to study the causes, costs and actions needed to…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Sweet Victory for Joma
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat The International Committee to DEFEND Filipino progressives in Europe announced yesterday the second landmark decision of the European Court of First Instance (ECFI) on the terrorist listing of Prof. Jose Maria Sison, publicly-acknowledged leader of the revolutionary movement in the Philippines. The European Court annulled…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Noynoy for President?
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise/Business World Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Those who predicted the fizzling out of moves to enlist Senator Noynoy Aquino to run for President in the wake of the massive turn-out at the burial of his mother, former President Corazon Aquino, did not expect the relative ease and swiftness by which Senator Mar Roxas…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Standing On the Wrong Side of History
By CAROL PAGADUAN-PARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat Navy Lieutenant First Grade Nancy Gadian stirred a hornet’s nest when she accused retired Lt. General Eugenio Cedo and other senior officers of corrupt misuse of Balikatan funds in 2007. After winning a protective writ of amparo from the Court of Appeals and being given…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | A Reason to Celebrate
By CAROL PAGADUAN-PARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her cabal are at the end of their rope and they don’t know it, or pretend not to. They are so isolated, so inured from criticism and have so far gotten away with so much mayhem that they do not half…