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Bad drivers, dangerous roads and corrupt and inept enforcers are not the only problems on Philippine streets. It seems there are other, albeit funny, issues on our roads. (Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City)
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld SPEAKING AT a forum on the press and the media, former University of the Philippines president Jose V. Abueva said there were actually five Estates, or powers, in the Philippines. If the press is the Fourth Estate,...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In my last two columns I wrote about the call of US billionaire-investor Warren Buffet to tax the rich more, and about efforts to create more jobs in the United States by reviving manufacturing that uses...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Mrs. Edita Burgos, mother of desaparecidos Joseph Jonas Burgos, said on Tuesday that the failure of the commanding officers of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and its Criminal Investigation and Detection Group...
By SONNY AFRICA
The Aquino administration seeks a bigger budget for a program that is criticized as a poor cornerstone in the drive against poverty.
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Support for the peace talks between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) continues to pour in as various sectors of Philippine society including religious formations...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Two vital witnesses to the enforced disappearance of two University of the Philippines (UP) students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan are eager to face the alleged perpetrators of the crime. During the Sept. 14 hearing, the...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Children can be considered criminals at age nine? The child welfare group, Akap Bata says no. The group recently expressed strong disagreement against recommendations being mulled over by the Senate Committee on...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Karapatan stressed that the president is capable of releasing political prisoners as he did when he released rebel soldiers. “All he has to have is the political will to release those who are wrongly imprisoned.” – Marie Hilao-Enriquez, Karapatan.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Romilyn Ergy Ibañez adds to the growing list of OFWs who were killed or became victims of rape and violence but whose cases remain unsolved and the perpetrators got off scot-free.
By CYRIL ANNE DAYAO Bulatlat.com There is a mystery that has been puzzling the people in the colorful town of Lucban, Quezon. A serial killer is on the loose and the succession of events clearly shows who the targets are. In the midst of this chaos, Remington...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Since 1982, the US State Department has listed Cuba as one of the “state sponsors of terrorism” for allegedly “having repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism." Cuba denies this and in turn, hurls the...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA -- They were arrested on Sept. 12, 1998, put on trial for seven months and have been detained since. The US government has portrayed them as terrorists but the people of Cuba regard them as heroes. Gerardo Hernandez, Rene...
This photo of a Muslim community in Quiapo shows poverty and government neglect in graphic detail. Ever wonder why there is an ongoing armed conflict raging in Mindanao, as well as all over the country? Photo by Justin Lapid...
After 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...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The world economic crisis has not yet abated and there is still no recovery in sight even after three years. The governments of the advanced capitalist countries had already spent trillions of dollars in bail out programs, and these...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY -- Tobacco farmers in three Ilocos Region provinces and in Abra of the Cordillera Administrative Region recently agreed to ask the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) to raise the price of tobacco leaves to P128 per kilo of...
By RAYMUND VILLANUEVA Bulatlat.com An activist’s life can be aptly compared to a dog—a working one. This is truer to full time activists and truest if he or she is a Third World progressive. Sometime soon muscles knot and pain killers are popped like candies to...
By NANCY MURRAY and KADE CROCKFORD Truthout.org International On August 5, 2002, President George Bush declared, "We're fighting ... to secure freedom in the homeland." Strikingly, he did not use the word "nation," or "republic," but instead adopted a term, with...
By SOPHIA CHENG Commondreams.org International The world's largest electronics manufacturer, Foxconn Technology Group, has a plan for ending the grisly run of worker suicides that have drawn it unwanted attention over the past two years: replace human workers with...
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