By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino displayed calculated illogic when he attempted to dismiss calls for the abrogation of the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) in light of the grounding of the USS Guardian, a US Navy minesweeper, on the Tubbataha Reef by saying that there were no joint US-Philippine military…
Day: February 15, 2013
UP community outraged over destruction of Tubbataha reef
By JHESSET THRINA ENANO
“The Visiting Forces Agreement led to this situation in the first place. Without the VFA, we call it ‘invasion.’” – Dr. Giovanni Tapang, Samahan ng Nagtataguyod ng Agham at Teknolohiya Para sa Sambayanan
The trapo campaign has begun
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Even before the campaign period started, the administration’s senatorial slate called Team PNoy has begun taking potshots at the opposition called Team UNA. Their opening salvo, which was led by no less than the president, seems to show how the administration would conduct its campaign. President Benigno Aquino III led the…