“We demand that perpetrators be arrested and punished.”
Day: July 15, 2017
Inequity, iniquity amid rising income inequality
Acute income and economic inequality, the negative phenomenon spawned by neoliberal economics, continues to widen worldwide. Wealth gets concentrated, in scandalous scale, in the hands of the few super-rich, depriving billions of the poor all over the world sufficient means to survive. World Bank-International Monetary Fund designed policies/programs pursued by governments to achieve “sustainable and…
The military in command
Since the collapse of the Marcos terror regime in 1986, only two post-EDSA presidents have dared invoke the martial law provisions of the 1987 Constitution and to awaken justifiable fears of a return to the abuses and violence of fascist rule. The first president to do so was Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo; the second is Rodrigo Roa…