“It is ironic that I was arrested for exercising my right to free speech during Independence Day itself…While politicians who have been stealing from the nation’s coffers are still free to do as they please, I, who was merely exercising my right, was immediately charged and my rights curtailed.” – Pio Emmanuel Mijares, 19-year-old student
Day: June 20, 2014
Land, social justice, democracy and peace
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac, Hacienda Looc in Batangas, Hacienda Dolores in Pampanga, Hacienda Arloc and Hacienda Ilimnan in Negros Occidental, what do these have in common? These are vast tracts of land, which were appropriated by a few elite families of big landlords. Also, these lands were supposed to be…
Hacienda Dolores: Testament to CARP failure
The failure of government’s agrarian reform manifests in various haciendas across the country, such as in Hacienda Dolores in Pampanga
IBON Survey: Livelihood became worse, especially in Yolanda-hit region
The April 2014 nationwide survey shows that 84.2 percent of respondents perceived their livelihood as the same (53.1 percent) or worse (31.1 percent).
‘It’s a military operation,’ Katribu says of dawn ‘raid’ of Panay relief center
The masked men took laptops, memory sticks, printed documents, external hard drives, mobile phones, logbooks and cameras.
For once, not a CIA plot? | The ISIS fiasco: It’s really an attack on Iran
by MIKE WHITNEY Counterpunch There’s something that doesn’t ring-true about the coverage of crisis in Iraq. Maybe it’s the way the media reiterates the same, tedious storyline over and over again with only the slightest changes in the narrative. For example, I was reading an article in the Financial Times by Council on Foreign Relations…
The terrible news economists are trying to hide about American jobs | Official job market numbers obfuscate an important reality
By Jim Hightower Alternet Have you noticed “the powers that be” employ an entirely different standard for measuring the health of America’s job market than they use for the stock market? They’re currently telling us that, “The job market is improving.” What do they mean? Simply that the economy is generating an increase in the…
Terrorism as a weapon of hegemony | The Cuban Five
by CHANDRA MUZAFFAR Counterpunch Once again, the International Movement for a Just World (JUST) joins hands with the people of Cuba and justice-loving people in every nook and cranny of the planet, in demanding the immediate release of the three remaining prisoners from the Cuban Five who are still languishing in US jails, after 13…
Youth groups tag Aquino as ‘tuition hike king’
“Aquino gave the go signal for schools to hike fees; he is the enabler of the deregulated status of education.”