By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Game of thrones
Month: October 2017
Ungrateful
By DEE AYROSO
The obscure imprints of the German elections
By ISIDOROS KARDERINIS The German elections of September 24th, 2017, due to the country’s specific political, financial and historical strength, have undoubtedly been at the center of international and European interest. Their results were marked by the winning of the Christian Union CDU / CSU led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, even with a lower percent,…
Collateral
By DEE AYROSO
Youth groups decry rising harassment of student activists
Two female leaders of Anakbayan were targeted in the latest cases of harassment against activists.
Authoritarian creep (pun intended)*
When President Rodrigo Duterte says something really outrageous then it backfires or he is proven to be lying or at least dissembling, he uses several tricks to get away with it. He or his apologists say he was just joking and because we are so gullible, we are asking for it. Or they say he…
World Habitat Day | Urban poor group protests homelessness, war vs. the poor
“There will be no dissent if only the government were truthful in serving the people.”
Court drops raps vs. ‘Kabataan 8’
MANILA – A Quezon City court has cleared all charges against the eight youth activists who were arrested and detained for protesting during the July 22 special joint session of the House of Representatives to vote on the extension of martial law in Mindanao. In their arraignment on Oct. 2, QC Metropolitan Trial Court Judge…
Duterte gov’t adopts US ‘war on terror’ plan
The recently concluded (September 18-26) “low-key” US-Philippine joint military exercise, dubbed “Tempest Wind,” signals three interrelated foreboding situations: First, – after so much presidential anti-US blustering and threat to cut off relations and chart an “independent foreign policy” – it has brought the Duterte government complicitly in closer security/defense alliance with American imperialism under a…
Brothers under the skin
Some of President Rodrigo Duterte’s adherents and those opposed to him because they have a vision of an alternative State and future and the programs to achieve it have more in common than most observers and even those in their own respective ranks think. Exclude from the former group the government officials who last week…
Ronnie Garcia | Mansaka educator dedicated life for fellow Lumad
Tireless, hardworking, and dedicated, the educator is greatly missed by students and other teachers.