“A search warrant in a government prison facility is unnecessary and appears to be a flaccid attempt to make the apparent rubout ‘legal.'” — NUPL
‘Premeditated rubout,’ groups say of suspected druglord killing
Day: November 7, 2016
Fire-storm from the boondocks: Understanding ‘Little Brown Brother’s’ Realpolitik
Interviewing Dr. Kenneth Bauzon on the Duterte Presidency before the 2016 US Elections By E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Emeritus Professor of Ethnic Studies & Comparative Literature; Professorial Lecturer, Polytechnic University of the Philippines “A howling wilderness” was what General Jacob Smith ordered his troops to make of Samar, Philippines. He was taking revenge for the…
Tribute to parents of activists
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com The untold first mission of many activists does not involve the smashing of the bourgeois state or the ‘bombarding of the headquarters’ of the repressive government; their first instinct is to go home and confess their political conversion to their parents or guardians. It is a delicate and difficult duty.…
On issues surrounding Oslo talks
(This is my response to Mr. Edwin G. Espejo, a member of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) Peace Panel Communications Group, who wrote a piece on rappler.com about the second round of GRP-NDFP [National Democratic Front of the Philippines] peace talks held last Oct. 6 to 9.) I wish to put…
Fishers back to Panatag an interim gain for Phl
Absent a formal agreement between the Philippines and China, the latter lifted last week its naval blockage that, for the past four years, had prevented Filipino fishers from gaining access to their traditional fishing areas in the Panatag/Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea (WPS/SCS). Although it’s an ad interim or status quo…