By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective One major issue that the incoming Duterte administration has to address is youth unemployment. The government’s National Economic Development Authority is alarmed at the high unemployment rate of the youth. According to the...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The Orlando shooting at the Pulse club, considered as the deadliest mass shooting in US history so far, shocked the world. Aside from the fact that there were 49 killed and 50 wounded, the cold, methodical manner by which it...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The country is ushering in a new administration by the month’s end. While previous administrations came and went, the neoliberal agenda has remained. There has been no deviation from the neoliberal policies that have been...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective There has already been a lot of outrage from different media groups, local and international, over the statement of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, which practically endorsed the killing of journalists. The National Union of...
The implications of the potential positive progress of the peace negotiations on the Filipino people are huge. If successful, this will forge the nation’s unity, which would have positive effects on the economy, the assertion of the country’s sovereignty, and on effective, far-reaching political reforms.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Here is an interesting article from Agence France-Presse and published by The Telegraph, also locally by Interaksyon.com, “Financial crisis caused 500,000 extra cancer deaths, according to Lancet study.” The study, which was...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat Prespective Former Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is, as of this writing, poised to take over the presidency with his insurmountable lead over his closest rivals. He is not the “presidential type” with his brash manners, foul language,...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The May 9 election is a mere few days away. The talk of the town for the past weeks has been the phenomenal rise of former Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. His brash manner of responding and acting on issues is highly...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), in a report published by interaksyon.com April 27, 2016, revealed that the candidates for president, vice president and the Senate, and their political parties have...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) announced the arrest of one of the hackers who defaced the Comelec website. A report published by gmanews.tv April 21 revealed that the NBI...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective When people use the phrase “Let them eat brioche (cake),” quoting a French queen – widely believed to be Queen Marie-Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, but later discovered to be Queen Marie Therese, wife of Louis XIV – who...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Voters have witnessed two presidential debates already: the first at Capitol University in Cagayan de Oro City and a second one at the University of the Philippines–Cebu. Have these clarified the platforms of the presidential...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is once again blackmailing the public – for the nth time – into allowing it to disregard the safeguards provided by the Automated Election System Law (AES). After the Supreme Court ruled...
"With 31 reported killings in 2015, the Philippines has one of the worst track records in the killing of human rights defenders (HRD) worldwide."
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Philippine elections have always been a sideshow: with politicians acting like clowns with their dancing, singing, and trying hard to be funny or to identify themselves with the common people with their antics. And of course,...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective So you want to become president? The question is: how much? And it is not about how much (or how desperately) does one want to become president. It is essentially a question of how much does one have to run a credible,...
Why did not the administrations after Marcos ensure an accurate account of the Marcos dictatorship in history books ?
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -- George Santayana From Feb. 22 to 25, the nation will be marking the thirtieth year of the people’s uprising that toppled the US-backed Marcos...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The world economy is nowhere near recovery from the last economic implosion in 2007-08, even as governments and their economists would want us to believe so. While articles about the lingering crisis are scant, one could read...
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