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President Macapagal-Arroyo may be dreaming of peddling the idea of sustainable mining as a savior of the fiscal crisis. She is basically courting disaster by opening up almost all mining sites and making people pay for whatever bad would come out of it. By John...
Preventing changes in government through “People Power” uprisings is among the reasons for the proposal to shift to a parliamentary system, in which changing governments will supposedly be institutionalized rather than left to direct people’s action. BY CENTER FOR...
The government will happily announce drastically lower unemployment rates this June. But this is only because it changed the way it counts the country’s jobless, causing them to statistically disappear. BY SANDRA NICOLAS Bulatlat.com The Arroyo administration has a...
Wage hike legislation nears 6 years President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo faces a punishment worse than impeachment if she continues to ignore the demand of workers for a legislated wage increase in the minimum daily wage by P125 ($2.26). A party-list legislator argued...
Despite stringent government regulations that ban the airing of the supposed wiretapped conversations between President Macapagal-Arroyo and Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano, progressive groups are finding more ways to circulate the content of the...
A professor of law at the University of the Philippines said that Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales should investigate the taped conversation allegedly involving President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and an official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). This, said...
The current presidential crisis may be a threat to Macapagal-Arroyo but it is also an opportunity for the nation to wrestle with the fundamental question on what is the best solution. By Bobby Tuazon Bulatlat.com Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo faces the biggest threat to...
Macapagal-Arroyo may have limped over the hump of thorns to her presidency but this institution that she represents has been badly battered too. The issue of electoral fraud and the worms of corruption and worst-ever unethical practices that it unearthed gave birth...
“But the empress has no new clothes!” would be the wide-eyed declaration of an innocent child who sees things as they are and would simply say so as well. Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, aka Philippine President, but to a majority of Filipinos, a usurper who refuses...
Bulatlat.com Based on the latest survey of an independent research think-tank, it appears that four out of every five Filipinos are dissatisfied with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's performance as President while three out of every five Filipinos think that the economy...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com Military rebels are “silently observing” the people’s reaction to the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration’s charter change maneuvers. “If the people will strongly react against it, there might be another attempt of military...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Despite President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s moves to abolish the death penalty, human rights lawyers noted that extrajudicial and political killings continue contradicting the image of “kindness and compassion” she wants to portray....
The active response of overseas Filipinos to calls for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has taken the campaign to a higher level and given it an international dimension. This increases the pressure on the Macapagal-Arroyo administration which is...
By the Artists for the Removal of Gloria (ARREST Gloria) Bulatlat.com The country was at a standstill when Manny Pacquiao traded blows with Oscar Larios at the Araneta Coliseum last July 2. More than half the country was glued to TV sets, and even the churches...
Nurses and examinees who filed the complaint about the Nursing board exams leakage are gathering signatures to petition President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to create an independent fact-finding body. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY -...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat Her term ending in June 2010, de facto president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo finally filed her candidacy as congresswoman in the second district of Pampanga, her hometown, ending all speculation...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-PARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat In death as in life, former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino continues to be a political phenomenon. The Aquino family themselves had not anticipated the people’s outpouring of love, adulation...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat The anti-Charter change (Chacha) and anti-Arroyo forces had barely a week to mount the muscle-flexing protest action yesterday in Ayala Avenue, Makati City and in major urban centers...
After the Supreme Court’s ruling junking the petitions seeking to nullify House Resolution (HR) 1109 calling for a constituent assembly (Con-ass) to amend the charter even without the Senate, a militant lawmaker called on the people to remain vigilant saying “this...
PRESS STATEMENT June 3, 2009 We strongly denounce the railroading of the House of Representatives’ unconstitutional Resolution 1109 calling to convene Congress as a constituent assembly to amend the Philippine Constitution. We believe the resolution is intended to...
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