Month: March 2015

the calmed weather did not calm her weary heart as the pages of the calendar changed their faces and blew away the leaves of so many yesterdays buried from a dreadful past, paralyzed from the memories that played on loops until the voices of madness devoured her sanity, watching the linoleum floor ripples like ocean…

By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld President Benigno S. C. Aquino III’s speech at the PNPA graduation was meant to write finis to the public uproar over the bloody, botched counterterrorist operation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Instead it only managed to further rile a people sick and tired of the finger-pointing, the obfuscation and lies about…

By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld As a leading member of the Cabinet, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima can rightly be accused of involvement in a Malacañang-orchestrated effort to shield President Benigno S. C. Aquino III from liability for the poorly-planned, badly-executed Oplan Exodus when she practically described the Senate report on that…

Will these questions be ever answered?

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective During his speech at the commencement ceremonies at the Philippine National Police Academy, Pres. Benigno Aquino III again refused to apologize for the bungled operations that left 44 SAF police officers, 18 Moro rebel fighters, and five civilian dead and asked instead for “understanding.” He said he was fed the…