By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Whistle-blowers are like shooting stars. Depending on who they are ratting on and how explosive their testimony, they can shine ever so brightly in the political firmament. They become celebrities for a brief...
Ni ROLAND B. TOLENTINO KULTURANG POPULAR KULTURA Bulatlat Sa US, ang mga kababaihang whistleblower na sina Cynthia Cooper ng Worldcom, Sherron Watkins ng Enron, at Coleen Rowley ng FBI ay binansagan ng Time Magazine bilang “Persons of the Year” ng 2002. Inilantad...
The Arroyos are destined to exit from the Philippine political scene in disgrace, perhaps even worse than the dictator Marcos. BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat The Lozada perjury case may be the most celebrated example of the...
New Movement Seeks Justice for Jun Lozada
Next to the Marcos dictatorship, the Arroyo presidency will likely go down in history as the government most vilified apparently due to its use of coercion and intimidation to silence its critics and its presumed enemies. BY THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN...
The highhandedness, the arrogance, the repeated episodes of flagrant abuse of power are all calculated to intimidate, coerce and deter would-be whistleblowers, investigations, and mass protest. What they miscalculate is that strong-arm, illegal and criminal tactics...
The Arroyo government seems to have blundered in handling Rodolfo Lozada Jr. from the day the Senate summoned him to testify in a hearing on the NBN-ZTE deal. But the Macapagal-Arroyo administration’s actions concerning Lozada were done with due consideration of...
I am aghast that these senators whom we knew at the U.P. years ago are part of the regime's counteroffensive to save a morally bankrupt leadership that has long deserved to be banished and replaced. But from the looks of it the whole political system may well...
Kung isasabatas ang pagbabawal ng mga salitang ginagamit sa pagbabalita, nangangahulugan ito, sa huling pagsusuri, ng pambubusal sa midya. NI DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Konteksto / Pinoy Weekly Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 3, February 17-23, 2008 Abusado man sa...
The Arroyo administration seems bent on trying every trick in the bag just to undermine Engr. Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, star witness at the Senate investigations on the controversial National Broadband Network project. First he was sent off to Hong Kong just as he was...
The distance of Manila from this summer city does not serve as a barrier for the growing support for Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, the whistleblower in the multi-million dollar anomaly that has tainted the National Broadband Network (NBN) deal. Lawyers’ groups in this...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 3, February 17-23, 2008 For businessman Jose “Joey” de Venecia III, son of ousted House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., the series of anti-government rallies that has been started by various groups in the wake of...
Kung ang midya ay patuloy na nakakapanayam si Lozada, hindi ito nangangahulugang may tunay na demokrasya sa ating bansa. Kung si Lozada ngayon ay may kalayaan, ito ay dahil sa pagkilos ng mga taong simbahan at iba pang sektor ng lipunan para protektahan siya. NI...
Engineer Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada is an accidental hero but a hero nonetheless to a people starved for real-life, modern-day heroes. Would it not be an irony of the most triumphant kind if this latest attempt to silence Jun Lozada, to break his will and to isolate him,...
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