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Friday, November 23rd, 2012

On 3rd year of Ampatuan massacre, groups call for justice, dismantling of private armies

Brad Adams, Asia director for the Human Rights Watch, said the Ampatuan massacre has “brought to light” the dangers posed by private armies, militias, and paramilitaries in the country “but the administration of President Benigno Aquino III has not seriously addressed the problem.” By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Three years after the

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012

Maguindanao massacre and the absence of genuine justice, press freedom, and good governance

By BENJIE OLIVEROS The continued reign of impunity, political dynasties and warlordism, the...

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Anti-mining activist slapped with libel case for Facebook post faces death threats

By INA ALLECO R.SILVERIO A few days after anti-mining activist Esperlita Garcia posted...

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

Philippine Freedom of Information bill still nowhere near passage

By MARK PERE MADRONA “The FOI bill can be a powerful tool in...

Friday, October 5th, 2012

Journalists oppose Cybercrime law

By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Media organizations filed the ninth petition to the Supreme Court seeking to declare the Cybercrime Law unconstitutional, Oct. 3. Media groups National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Center...

Friday, September 28th, 2012

A free press could never be cowed nor silenced

By RONALYN V. OLEA Last week, activists of the 1970s up...

Friday, September 28th, 2012

Above-ground alternative press: Open defiance to the Marcos dictatorship

By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – When Ferdinand Marcos stifled press freedom, there were those who stood up for the truth. The alternative press, defined by Luis Teodoro, deputy executive director of the Center for Media...

Friday, September 28th, 2012

Underground press during martial law: Piercing the veil of darkness imposed by the dictatorship

By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – “The sound of the typewriter then was considered subversive.” Carolina “Bobbie” Malay said as she recalled the early years after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. When Marcos shut down newspapers,...

Friday, September 28th, 2012

Martial law’s legacy of stifling the press persists

By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Forty years after the imposition of martial law, the Philippine media is still confronted with problems bearing imprints of the dictatorship. The enactment of the Republic Act 10175 or the...

Monday, September 24th, 2012

If you read it here first, you’re apt to believe it more

By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com A new study by Dana Carney of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University, as reported in The Economist, sheds light on how people can be brainwashed or greenwashed,...

Thursday, September 20th, 2012