January 2014 | Bulatlat

Yellow tape

By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA

Raymund Villanueva | Jan 13, 2014

Life in the electronic concentration camp: the many ways that you’re being tracked and controlled

[A security camera] doesn’t respond to complaint, threats, or insults. Instead, it just watches you in a forbidding manner. Today, the surveillance state is so deeply enmeshed in our data devices that we don’t even scream back because technology companies have convinced us that we need to be connected to them to be happy.

Marya Salamat | Jan 13, 2014

Inequality blurs global economic recovery

By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star A tempered sense of euphoria, spurred by developments in the US economy (the world’s largest, with gross domestic product at $16.245 trillion), qualifies the assessment that the global economy’s growth would...

Bulatlat Contributors | Jan 11, 2014

Alarm bells for 2014

By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld 2013 is past; 2014 is here. Ideally each New Year should be met with great enthusiasm, optimism and anticipation of good, if not better, things to come. Or so most of us can only hope. But the reality in this...

Bulatlat Contributors | Jan 11, 2014

Bunkhouse bunk

By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If the destruction wrought by typhoon Yolanda had a positive side, it was the opportunity it offered to rebuild the shattered communities of the Visayas into habitats that would not only provide poorer residents...

Benjie Oliveros | Jan 11, 2014

Labor group seeks TRO on SSS premium hike

"Aquino is lying when he said the hike will result in greater benefits for members.”

Marya Salamat | Jan 11, 2014

Measles outbreak, who is to blame?

“The failure of the measles eradication program is but a reflection of the glaring disconnect between national health programs and the actual health situation.” – Kilos Bayan Para sa Kalusugan

Anne Marxze Umil | Jan 10, 2014

International lawsuit vs Fukushima nuke makers, suppliers being readied

“Contaminated water [from the damaged nuclear power plant] goes back and forth into the Pacific Ocean – goes across to the Philippines, to the west side of America.”

Marya Salamat | Jan 10, 2014

Mendiola Masaker: Labintatlong katawang bumabangon

Ni E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Bulatlat.com LEOPOLDO ALONZO [22 Enero 1987: demonstrasyon ng mahigit 20,000 pesante't manggagawa sa harap ng Malakanyang] Ang kaisipan ay tandisang pagtutol sa kung anong katalahagan ang nakatambad sa harap natin... Lupang makulimlim di...

Bulatlat Contributors | Jan 10, 2014

In 2013, demolitions, privatization, corruption burdened the urban poor

“We are expecting that these attacks against the welfare of the urban poor would continue this 2014. But we will continue to push and fight for our rights, for our livelihood and for decent pay.”

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Jan 9, 2014

Fisherfolk to protest against off limits zone policy in Yolanda ravaged coastal areas

“They want our people out of the coastal zones because they prefer big business groups who want to invest in Public-Private Partnership projects that would virtually transform Leyte and Samar coastal areas into export-bane processing zones in Region 8."

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Jan 9, 2014

Starting the New Year 2014…wrong

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Filipinos have this superstition that one has to start the new year right because that would reflect on his or her fortune for the rest of the year. This is why deaths, illnesses, quarrels, having no money at the beginning of...

Benjie Oliveros | Jan 9, 2014

Cultural gathering held in the Netherlands to commemorate Philippine revolution

The four-part gathering, which included multi-national cultural performances, a film-showing, and a forum/discussion and fellowship dinner, was held in celebration of Andres Bonifacio's 150th birth anniversary and the 45th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on December 26.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jan 9, 2014

Daughter saw activist father shot to death

Jay-jay, 12, saw a man pulling a gun against her father Marcelo Monterona last January 3. Her instinct was to throw a stone against her dad’s attacker, but as fear overwhelmed her, she scampered to get home.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jan 7, 2014

Groups ask why Aquino govt not running after US Navy for destruction of Tubbataha reef

“The damage caused by the grounding of USS Guardian on Tubbataha Natural Reef Park is bigger, far more reaching and strategically fatal to the livelihood of Filipino fishermen and to the fishing environment directly linked to the protected reef park.”

Bulatlat Contributors | Jan 7, 2014

Unmasking Noynoy Aquino

Bulatlat.com's 2013 Yearender Multimedia report

Benjie Oliveros | Jan 7, 2014

‘Wrecking Ball’ and other objects that made news in 2013

QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com Third part of four series First part | 13 natural and man-made disasters of 2013 Second part | ‘We Should Legalize Everything’ and Other Shocking Sound Bites of 2013 1. Martilyo. Robbers belonging to the ‘Martilyo...

Bulatlat Contributors | Jan 3, 2014

2013: Unchanged policies and economic disasters

Growth is becoming more exclusionary with every year of the Aquino administration and its unreformed economic policies By IBON FOUNDATION MANILA — The year 2013 has seen more rapid economic growth, rising foreign investment, and praise from international agencies...