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In Lifting Price Cap, Arroyo, Oil Firms Mislead Consumers
In Lifting Price Cap, Arroyo, Oil Firms Mislead Consumers
By ARNOLD PADILLA
Malacañang is threatening to reimpose an oil price control if oil companies will not follow the conditions outlined by Mrs. Arroyo. Government, however, has given up the high ground with its lifting of EO 839 and continued adherence to the discredited deregulation policy.
Benjie Oliveros | The Vagueness of Politics, the Politics of Vagueness
Benjie Oliveros | The Vagueness of Politics, the Politics of Vagueness
The more your hear and see the less you know. This seems to best describe what politicians articulate during press conferences and say in public, the current leading candidates for president included.
Benjie Oliveros | Obtaining Justice for Luisita Farmers Is a Test for Noynoy
Benjie Oliveros | Obtaining Justice for Luisita Farmers Is a Test for Noynoy
Noynoy Aquino may not have stolen money from the nation’s coffers but he has been stealing land from the farmers of Hacienda Luisita. The issue of the farmers of Hacienda Luisita is not merely a test of his mettle as a presidential candidate but, more importantly, it is a test of his sense of justice.
For Oil Firms, EO 839 Is Not Just About Dip in Profits but Potential Shift Vs. Deregulation
For Oil Firms, EO 839 Is Not Just About Dip in Profits but Potential Shift Vs. Deregulation
By ARNOLD PADILLA
To a certain degree, Executive Order 839 questioned the lies long peddled by the oil companies and staunch defenders of neoliberalism about neoliberal free market economics. If left unchallenged, EO 839 could become a precedent in policy making: that the government, in the name of public good and welfare, could take decisive action against abusive corporations.
Why Consumers Should Not Rejoice Over Oil-Price Rollback Enforced by Arroyo
Why Consumers Should Not Rejoice Over Oil-Price Rollback Enforced by Arroyo
By ARNOLD PADILLA
While it is supposed to be based on the Oil Deregulation Law, the executive order mandating the recent price rollback in effect puts into question the wisdom of oil deregulation. Moreover, the oil companies have found a way to offset whatever “losses” they would incur in Luzon due to the EO: by overpricing in the Visayas and Mindanao.
Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions
Class and Ondoy: The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Ideological Distortions
By GILL H. BOEHRINGER
By seeking to convince its readers that the effects of Ondoy were “felt equally by rich and poor” and that it was a “great equalizer,” the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the most influential newspaper in the Philippines, was attempting to bolster the view that the Filipino class system had nothing to do with the disaster, and that the lives of all Filipinos are shaped by the same forces of nature, even by fate or by God.
Analysis: Ondoy, Pepeng and the Bane of Development Illusion
Analysis: Ondoy, Pepeng and the Bane of Development Illusion
In the years ahead, the number and magnitude of disasters will increase with colossal human and economic losses. The task of rescue, recovery, relief and rehabilitation will have to fall more and more on the people themselves as they have in fact done in recent years.
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