Ni JOI BARRIOS-LEBLANC Bato-bato sa langit, tamaan ay huwag magagalit. Nabastusan po ba kayo sa aming Pangulo? Pasensiya na po at nakapagmura. Posibleng: 1. Hindi naturuan ng good manners and right conduct ng mga Thomasites na padala ng Amerika. Hindi nasakop ng colonial miseducation, ika nga ni Constantino. 2. Masama ang gising. Baka binangunot dahil…
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Reading through the 500-page Executive Summary of the report of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, one could not help but feel revulsion and alarm at the official, systematic, and brutal application of torture on detainees the US suspected of having links…
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The American people ought to realize — and critically respond to — the dangers involved in two directions of national-security policy that their government is pursuing: 1) It is escalating the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (while extending its war…
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Just as the “daang matuwid” promised to us has been turning out to be a potholed, crooked one, it seems that Americans are finding out how much President Barack Obama has veered away from the policies he had set at the beginning of his…
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “So whenever you look at what we say publicly, it’s always about maintaining the peace, the stability that’s critical to prosperity in the region but also urging all the claimants, including China, to follow… rules and international law.” The quote is from Scot Marciel,…
By TAD DALEY and KEVIN MARTIN Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) If our thousands of nuclear weapons actually do serve to deter, then why should we be concerned about a nuclear North Korea or a nuclear Iran? If they do not serve to deter, then why retain them at all? When South Korean President Lee…