“There is enough basis to question how Acef was used but Congress is turning a blind eye…”
Solon lambasts extension of fund marred with irregularities
Month: January 2016
Rebiswalisasyon ng Petroglyph
Bawat imahen ay nakaugnay sa kabuuan, ang individual ay nakaugnay sa kolektibo. Hypertext kumbaga na sa sariling pag-unawa ng biswal na nakikinig (ang tumutunghay) nagkakaroon ng halaga at kabuluhan ang pagdanas. Pero hindi tulad ng mga petroglyph, ang pag-aakda ni Malto ay nagsasaad ng mas halatang ugnayan ng lokal at global, ng nasyonal at transnasyonal, ng natural at teknolohikal. Dahil na rin ito, mas mahaba ang karanasan ng kasalukuyan sa mga pagdanas ng nauna sa kanya.
Salungguhit | Social security as milking cow
Bloody start for 2016 | 4 activists killed in less than a month
Three of the four victims were from Mindanao and were killed in a span of one week.
Maybe
A year after Mamasapano tragedy, groups want Aquino, US gov’t held accountable
“We support the reopening of the reinvestigation of the Mamasapano incident with the objective of uncovering additional evidence on the role of the principal actors in the operation, most importantly Aquino, Purisima and the US government.”
How to deal with a millennial moderate Leftist
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com There is a regular gathering of anti-Marcos activists which briefly unites various shades of the Left. This was impossible to organize in the mid-1990s during the ‘great split’ within the Philippine Left, but today it happens several times a year. Perhaps the passing of time inspired these fierce ideological rivals…
Positioning the Philippines for eventual war?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Two months ago, as the Supreme Court deliberated on the two petitions urging it to declare the Phl-US Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement unconstitutional, I wrote about former US Senator Mike Gravel’s warning, via his petition-in-intervention filed through Filipino lawyers, that the EDCA could lead…
Defending Edca, setting the rule
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Although critical of President Benigno Aquino III, Senate minority leader—and former Marcos defense minister– Juan Ponce Enrile verbalized what the Aquino administration hasn’t been explicitly saying about the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). Speaking to the media a day after the Supreme Court ruling that EDCA is…
‘Comfort women’ want Aquino to discuss reparation with Japanese emperor
“We may be older than him, but our memory is far clearer. The lolas never heard an official statement of apology nor received compensation from the Japanese government.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA — Determined lolas (grandmothers) of Lila Pilipina are set to welcome Emperor Akihito of Japan with protest during his state…
UP students protest ‘colonial, anti-Filipino’ curricular reforms
“The proposed reform will not raise the quality of UP education contrary to what the proponents say. UP has long suffered from dilapidated facilities, high tuition, and exorbitant fees due to lack of state support. What we need is a truly progressive, patriotic and mass-oriented UP education, not more colonial education.”