Maleta
Kung susundan ang ilan pang pahayag ng mataas na opisyal ng NBI, nais nilang paghiwalayin ang mga tunay na peryodista sa mga pekeng peryodista. Iba ang responsable sa iresponsable. Iba ang etikal sa hindi etikal.
COMMENTARY
AT GROUND LEVEL
SATUR OCAMPO
‘Not war with China; don’t rely only on US’ – Marcos Jr.
In an interview on Bloomberg TV last Wednesday, as reported in another national daily, he made two related comments that could represent important government policy stands. First, regarding China’s increasing aggressive moves against Philippine vessels in the West Philippine Sea; second, about the United States’ repeated assurance of its “iron-clad” defense commitment under the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.
Sending our farm workers to South Korea: good news?
Growing up in Sta. Rita, Pampanga, where I was born into a rice-farming family eight decades back, I enjoyed watching seasonal farmworkers do their tasks during the planting and harvesting seasons.
SC defends judiciary from online abuse
“By merely having access to social media, private individuals could publish their thoughts without need of self-policing or adhering to the ethical standard required of the press. As a result, content could be created and shared with abandon, purely for clout for ‘likes’ and even disregard for the truth.”
BALIK-TANAW
PROMOTION OF CHURCH PEOPLE’S RESPONSE
Balik-Tanaw | The Messiah we never fully knew
One of the most beautiful illustrations I’ve ever heard about the depth of our knowledge of the Lord goes like this: Before starting the day’s business, the presiding judge called on anyone from the courtroom who knew Psalm 23 and requested to share it at the front.
Balik-Tanaw | This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me
Psalm 15 asks- “Who shall abide in God’s sanctuary?” “ Those who walk blameless and do what is right and speak the truth from their heart; who do not slander with their tongue and do no evil to their friends nor take up a reproach against their neighbors. . .” “…Who stand by their oath even to their hurt; who do not lend money at interest, and do not take a bribe against the innocent.” “Ang mga ganitong tao ay mag-aani ng tagumpay!”
Balik-Tanaw | Do you also want to leave?
The phenomenon of Church people leaving or abandoning the Church has become a normal event in the life of the Church, particularly in developed countries as well as in developing nations. This crisis is nothing new to us today but somehow began in the early years of Christianity. The gospel of John affirmed this crisis: “… many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him.” This provoked Jesus to confront the Twelve: “Do you also want to leave?”
BALIKSAYSAY
FRANCIS GEALOGO
Vandals
Sa imahinasyon ng mga bayaning nakikipaglaban sa pananakop, mahalaga ang pagpapahayag na maituturing na vandalism na gumagambala sa kapanatagan ng mga naghaharing uri. Matatandaan na sa El Filibusterismo, mahalaga ang pangyayari ng pagkatuklas ng mga paskil na nagpapahayag ng paglaban sa pang-aabuso ng mga prayle at iba pang mga pinunong Espanyol na naging dahilan upang hulihin ang mga pinaghihinalaang mga estudyante at magkaroon ng panic ang mga pinuno ng bayan sa pinaghihinalaang kilusang konspiratoryal na magpapabagsak sa pamahalaan. Sa nobela ni Rizal, pinatalsik sa pamantasan ang mga pinaghihinalaang mga estudyante kahit na iyong wala namang kinalaman sa kilusan.
Si Mariano Ponce, ang Tsina, ang Hapon at ang Amerika sa karagatan ng Pilipinas
Isang balaraw na may dalawang matutulis na dulo ang Pan Asianismo. Maaari itong gawing inspirasyon sa pagpapalaya sa bayan. Subalit maaari din itong gamitin upang manakop ang malalakas na bayang Asyano at mawalan ng teritoryo ang mga mahihina at maliliit na bayan.
OFW sa kasaysayan
Kakaiba ang ganitong patakaran dahil kung ang ilang bayan ay nakasalalay sa pagpapahalaga sa kanyang manggagawa upang manatili para sa ikauunlad ng domestikong ekonomiya, institusyonal namang sinusuportahan ng pamahalaan na mangibang bayan ang kanyang mga manggagawa para magtrabaho sa ekonomiya ng ibang lipunan.
BLOODRUSH
SARAH RAYMUNDO
Buzzwords for class war
This is why it is important to equate “poor” with “vulnerable.” Why, the most oppressed and exploited are also the most organized and politicized. More than ever, it is crucial for the ruling elite and their imperialist masters to deny that landless peasants, wage workers, informal workers and the unemployed wield the power of conceptual thought within the context of a protracted people's war for national liberation and socialism.
Mapping the course: Peace talks and red bashing
Peace talks comes primarily because in the country’s hinterlands, a people’s army, guided by a communist party, is building organs of democratic political power. And in various sites, the communist bid for land redistribution, national industrialization, and a participatory planned economy through socialism is paralleled by organized, institutionalized and legitimate endeavors pursuing the same vision. This is enough for a government that is provisionally hijacked by compradors and imperialists to talk peace and reforms.
Wanted: Consent for full spectrum dominance
The law is flagrantly used by judges, police and military to violate human rights. Organizations previously red tagged have endured painful outcomes such a the imprisonment, murder and massacre of their members. This is none other than full spectrum dominance.
FIRST PERSON
BULATLAT CONTRIBUTORS
First Person | Si Kelot
There is nothing farther from the truth, if we go by the sharpness of her poetry and the chronicles of her life: all inflected with a sense of purpose, survival, and integrity.
First Person | How we strive to become people’s doctors
The worst illnesses of our country are the ones that make us believe that social change is impossible, and that the suffering of millions of Filipinos is inescapable. The worst living conditions is where med students and health workers believe that they have no role in campaigning and fighting for just and lasting peace.
KALIBUTAN
KALIKASAN-PEOPLE’S NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Four factors why #Habagat2018 became a flood disaster
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.
Enough of Duterte’s cesspool politics
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KONTEKSTO
DANILO ARAO
Konteksto | Penitensya
Bakit hindi matuto ang mga pinahihirapang Pilipino? Mali tanong ito. Sa katunayan, matagal na silang natuto. Ang problema lang, madalas na walang matinong mapagpilian lalo na sa lokal na antas.
Konteksto | Peke
Totoong maraming peke. Hindi lang sila produkto kundi mayroon ding mga tao. Sama-samang iwaksi ang mga kapitalistang nagsasabing nasa puso ang makatulong pero nasa utak naman ang tubo. Sila ang mga pekeng dapat ilantad sa mundo.
Konteksto | Arestado
Huwag nang magulat si Duterte at ang mga tagasuporta niya kung maraming peryodistang nagbubunyi sa kanyang kinasasadlakan sa Oude Waalsdorperweg 10, 2597 AK Den Haag, The Netherlands. Arestado na, detenido pa. Dapat lang na pagbayaran niya ang kanyang mga ginawa.
OPINION
BULATLAT EDITORS
Tinig Migrante | Visiting Mary Jane
This year marks the 13th year of Mary Jane’s detention on death row. And while there is no imminent threat of execution since she was granted a temporary reprieve by the Indonesian government in 2015 to allow her to testify against her traffickers in an ongoing legal case in the Philippines as a victim of human trafficking, Mary Jane does not deserve to be imprisoned for another single day.
OPINION: Why former Inquirer journos oppose management settlement of libel case
Engracia, Carvajal and I might not have gotten our wish for a full-blown trial and ruling on the merits. But we've sent across our message: Fearless journalists who won't be silenced are alive and well. They will fight for what's true and right in defense of press freedom.
SONA 2022: Why Marcos Jr. economic blueprint will make the nation, ordinary folk suffer
Marcos Jr.'s priority is to ensure that the neoliberal policies that his predecessor President Rodrigo Duterte passed are maximized to create the most favorable environment for big businesses, including foreign capital. To become an investment destination, the administration will provide massive tax breaks to corporations through the CREATE Law and provide foreign companies more profit-making opportunities with the amended laws on public services and foreign investments.
ON THE FRINGES
BULATLAT STAFF
How attacks against workers’ rights ‘censored’ us
How unfortunate, really, since there were only three journalists in the restaurant at that time – Marya, Zeng, and I. And all three of them happened to be holding a spoon on one hand and fork on the other and not a camera to capture the moment.
The Sentinel, truth and fortitude*
Truth was our weapon. Truth effected change.
QUESTION EVERYTHING
MONG PALATINO
How information disorder undermined the 2022 Philippine elections
A movement has already emerged which aims to counter the nefarious impact of disinformation. It reflects the clamor of the people to make elections and governance more transparent by ensuring that people can readily access accurate and credible information.
Fact-checking as a political movement
When disinformation is widely shared at a dizzying realtime speed by paid cyber mercenaries, can fact-checking stand a chance? There are short-term and long-term interventions that may require the enforcement of technical and regulatory mechanisms. For our part, we must not lose sight of the political solution because the roots of the information disorder are also linked to deeper structural infirmities in society.
Question Everything | Affirming solidarity and redefining development during the pandemic
...[t]he task of shaping the “new normal” should come from the actions of the people; it should be the outcome of our political organizing. We should claim the narrative of the “new normal” in order to reclaim our right to enjoy a better future.
ROOT ACCESS
COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS UNION
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