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The decision to partake in struggles beyond the personal is gargantuan and its consequences are mortal. It is in this decision that heroism of del Pilar can be found. By VINZ SIMON Bulatlat.com Meditative would be the best adjective that could be appended for...
The challenge to build genuine solutions to flood risk factors should not have been new to the administration of Rodrigo Duterte. These proposals were outlined already in the 2016 People’s Agenda for Nationalist and Progressive Change, a comprehensive 100-day agenda document hand-delivered to Duterte himself.
“It is typical of the Duterte regime to see destabilization as behind the Filipino people’s cry for political, economic and social justice.”
“I am yearning for my mother. I hope to be with her soon. Please continue supporting her.”
“We have exhausted all efforts to resolve our issues through constructive means and social dialogue.”
“The whole country is kept ignorant of our plight."
NO MATTER their official justification for being — whether “so the trains will run on time,” “to save the Republic and reform society,” or “to rid the country of crime and illegal drugs” — dictatorships are premised on the presumption that the dictator knows best...
Given our abundant arable lands and rich natural resources, we could grow enough of our own food, export those raw or processed products that we are unable to consume, and build an industrial economy. But the Philippine state’s inexcusable failure to develop our...
"China is now capable of controlling the South China Sea in all scenarios short of war with the United States… There is no guarantee that the United States would win a future conflict with China.” The stunning twin statements are from Admiral Philip S. Davidson,...
The movie made its point. Don’t put your luck on heroes, they are just human. Fine. But the least the movie could have done was show why Goyo was a hero in the first place. It assumed that del Pilar is as popularly known as Rizal and Bonifacio whose lives can be dissected and debated upon by the public. Del Pilar is rarely known. Demolishing him even before getting to know him is a disservice to the film’s audience who, like it or not, get their education in history from films like Heneral Luna. Take it from the millennials.
If the government is looking for someone to blame for the inflation and increasing prices of basic commodities as rice and fish, it is its own neglect to subsidize agricultural producers when other countries have been actively doing so, and its tax and investment policies that hit the agricultural producers and consumers hard.
“Still, I would like to believe there is justice. I will fight for my son.”
As human rights lawyer Neri Colmenares said during the gathering of supporters and families of the Makabayan 4 last July, this regime does not tolerate dissent. He said that the issue is beyond the arrest of the Makabayan 4, it is about the people whose democratic rights are being trampled upon for voicing out their grievances against the government.
Ilocano KM decries Marcos inclusion in the city's Heroes Walk, saying he is not a hero but a convicted rights violator and an ousted tyrant.
The recent deluge delivers a chilling warning about the climate crisis. Worse, 9 years after Ondoy, the capital region's perennial vulnerability to extreme rainfall remains.
“In a supposedly civilized country that respects and promotes human rights and the well-being of its people, no amount of rationalization could justify such an order.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Australian missionary nun Sr. Patricia Anne Fox has...
“Once again, we are calling on all the people to raise their voices for justice and for Mary Jane's freedom so that she can be reunited with her family.”
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