Perish the thought! You’re playing a perilous game!! Verily that is the singular message addressed to both President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and Donald J. Trump, the incoming president of the United States, regarding their recent statements that beclouded the holiday atmosphere: Duterte’s on removing the constitutional safeguards on declaring martial law, and Trump’s on reviving…
Supposedly founded, in 1776, on the proposition that all men are created equal, it took the United States nearly a hundred years to formally abolish slavery in 1863, and another century to integrate the races. That only in 2016 did a major political party nominate a woman for US president seems somehow apt: the right…
Trump’s campaign gaffs, his personal character, his missteps and outrageous ‘off the cuff’ statements, his lack of any government experience, only enhanced the view that he was not just another elite politician.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The people could gain insights from these three major yet seemingly unrelated events. Actually there are common threads that link these three events in world politics. First, these are all products of democratic institutions and processes. The Brexit was decided by a referendum. Trump’s victory, of course, was the result…
On Nov. 8, or barely two weeks from today, US voters — or at least those who will bother to vote, most Americans being too cynical of the process to go to the polls, let alone be politically engaged enough to care about how they’re governed — will choose their next president. In one of…
Only an alternative based on a drastically changed US foreign policy, bound to some type of global framework for mutual benefits amongst all people, would prevent the current destabilization from becoming yet a new global order based in the rule of the many by the few.
By RENAN ORTIZ
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The upcoming US presidential election provides a perfect example for the idiom “a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea.” US citizens would not have much choice come November. They would have to choose between “the two most unpopular presidential candidates in polling dating back more than 30…
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, there is the usual declaration of love for the people and the issuance of…
By Joel Connelly The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted by Bulatlat.com In what I hope was an early-morning miscue, the weekend KPLU newsreader recently told listeners that “labor bosses” were gathering in Wenatchee for the Washington State Labor Council’s annual convention. Defining terminology, on the airwaves and deftly inserted in mainstream media, has been one of the…