Progressives slam Aquino’s mendicancy, sellout to US imperial interests

By MARYA SALAMAT
Critics ask why the Philippine government is downgrading itself into a US pawn and a beggar for used, obsolete military hardware of the US government.
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By MARYA SALAMAT
Critics ask why the Philippine government is downgrading itself into a US pawn and a beggar for used, obsolete military hardware of the US government.
(Mariveles, Bataan) The history of Bataan betrays its tranquility as the province is witness to the most greusome crimes of past and present - the Death March in 1942 which killed thousands of guerillas fighting the Japanese Occupation forces during World War II...
A dog is made to choose which hotdog brand and make he likes. (Commonwealth Market, Quezon City)
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Yesterday the younger of our two grandsons turned three. Weeks before he had been talking about his approaching birthday, excitement gleaming in his big expressive eyes. But more than that, he had been...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The US-based, 30-year-old organization Human Rights Watch -- the Asia Division of which, incidentally, former New York Times and International Herald Tribune freelance correspondent Carlos Conde is now the Philippine...
Human Rights Watch January 31, 2012 Palparan’s Prosecution Key to Ending Impunity (New York) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino III should order the armed forces to cooperate with civilian authorities in arresting retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan and others...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Newly retired employees of the University of the Philippines received some good news last week when their fellow employees’ struggle for additional benefits finally bore fruit. “It has proven once again the power of collective...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Parenthood changes you in so many good and happy ways; but there are also changes that you wish never happened. Parenthood makes you afraid. If you were fearless before and you scoffed at danger; if you were daring before and...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) is calling on President Benigno Aquino III to assist more than 12,000 Filipinos who stand to be deported from the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) this year....

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The coco levy funds would only change hands, from one Cojuangco to another Cojuangco.” – KMP deputy secretary general Willy Marbella
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“If the Ombudsman would not fear the military, I would get justice not only for myself but for the other victims of Palparan and his kind.” – Raymond Manalo, torture victim
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