With the way speculators and giant oil companies have been playing with oil prices, one could not help but be incensed. Why would oil prices rise when there has been no supply shock nor an increase in costs of producing oil? The sharp increases in pump prices have been dealing speculators and oil companies, and [...]
Monday, December 19, 2011The battle between Pres. Benigno Aquino III and Chief Justice Renato Corona has begun. It has started with the exchange of verbal fireworks. However, everything would come to a head in a few days time when the Senate convenes itself as an impeachment court. This would, perhaps, outstage the current telenovela craze as what happened [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011Who says everybody is equal under the law? While the poor die of diseases in cramped , unsanitary jails, former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wallows in the luxurious St. Luke’s Hospital. By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)
Monday, November 14, 2011Communities, people’s organizations, NGOs, environmental advocacy groups, the major church denominations, including the Catholic Church, and even the NPA are up in arms against big mining firms, but President Benigno Aquino III keeps on assuring big mining companies that the government would provide security and incentives for them, such as sovereign guarantees and an exemption [...]
Monday, October 31, 2011By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)
Monday, October 24, 2011In 1985 when the Marcos dictatorship was at its most desperate at clinging to power, an anticommunist paramilitary group called Tadtad led by Norberto Manero killed the Italian priest Fr Tullio Favali, PIME, on April 15, 1985. It shattered a belief that in this predominantly Catholic country, the Catholic priests and nuns at least were [...]
Monday, October 10, 2011Typhoons hitting the country every year is normal, but floods such as that which hit Central Luzon are not. So what happened and what is the government doing about it? By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)
Saturday, September 17, 2011The Mutual Defense Treaty has been in force for 60 years. it is the mother of all military treaties between the US and the Philippines. As it is, it is not a treaty between equals but one that binds the Philippines into subservience and dependence on the US in exchange for World War II vintage [...]
Monday, September 12, 2011After postponing the planned increases in LRT and MRT fares because of the widespread protest over this, the Aquino government is now hell-bent on pushing through with it. Why? Because of pressure from private investors. By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)
Saturday, August 27, 2011The US, through NATO, appears to be a silent operator in the Libyan rebels’ offensive to depose Libyan strongman Muamar Gaddafi: deploying small units of special forces, providing intelligence, logistical and bombing support. However, when the smoke of battle clears, the US won’t be as silent anymore as it would surely claim its share of [...]
Saturday, August 20, 2011Iggy Arroyo has done it again: he has come to the rescue of his older brother Miguel Arroyo, husband of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, by owning up to the crime of his brother. The script has been the same, after there seems to be no escape for older brother Miguel, except plain denials, Iggy owns [...]
UP, artists reiterate call for release of Ericson Acosta (Photos by Ronalyn V. Olea and Fred E. Dabu)
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