Television is generally acknowledged to have the longest reach of all the media today, with audience access estimated at 96 percent of all Filipinos nationwide. Much has thus been said about TV’s being the political battleground in the campaign for this year’s elections BY LUIS V. TEODORO Business Mirror Posted by Bulatlat TELEVISION is generally…
Day: March 11, 2007
Human Security Act: License to Kill*
How are we to believe de facto president Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo when she proclaims that the new anti-terrorism bill, euphemistically named the Human Security Act, will be used against supposed bombers and not protesters? On the contrary, such fascist legislation will certainly give further license to the Arroyo regime-sanctioned death squads responsible for the political…
Run-up to the 2007 Elections
Philippine elections have always been tainted with fraud, marred by violence, dominated by political dynasties, and characterized by broken promises of politicians. It has never resulted in the betterment of the lives of majority of the Filipino people. But the way things are shaping up, this may be the worst elections yet. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS…
Metro Militarization: Part of a Bigger Plan?
The deployment of troops in Metro Manila completes the militarization of the whole countryside which has been intensifying under Arroyo. The whole blueprint smacks of a bigger plan in the offing. It is even more chilling that local executives have shown no sign of alarm over this blatant display of military supremacy over civilian rule.…
Bayan Muna Gets Special Award from Cebu City Gov’t
Notwithstanding efforts of the Arroyo administration to bar the top party-list group from winning in the upcoming polls, Bayan Muna (People First) received a Special Mayor’s Award during the Queen City’s 70th Charter Day celebration last week. BY KAREN S. PAPELLERO Bulatlat CEBU CITY– Notwithstanding efforts of the Arroyo administration to bar the top party-list…
Rep. Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna
BY BULATLAT With five teams of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) scattered all over the metropolis to track him down and 15 agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) swooping down at his home in Quezon City, Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo is the subject of probably the most elaborate manhunt today.…
Soldiers on Campus Tour
In its dire effort to meet the three-year deadline to end the communist insurgency in the country, soldiers are now going on “campus tour” to try to “win the hearts minds” of university students in Metro Manila and to discourage them from getting involved in youth activism. A group of teachers, however, cried foul. BY…