By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld This year’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) is President B. S. Aquino III’s last. He is expected to deliver a powerful speech replete with his regime’s achievements for the last five years with a summation of the legacy he will leave behind. Speculation is rife, less than a…
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Aquino’s ‘last word’ on Mamasapano, the writing on the wall?
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld President Benigno S. C. Aquino III’s speech at the PNPA graduation was meant to write finis to the public uproar over the bloody, botched counterterrorist operation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Instead it only managed to further rile a people sick and tired of the finger-pointing, the obfuscation and lies about…
Mistaking power for virtue
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Judging from both his cocksure, in-your-face manner and the content of his public utterances over the last five years, Benigno S. C. Aquino III not only fancies himself a thinker; he also thinks his view of things and opinions are unassailable. Together with typhoons, floods, earthquakes and…
Could President Aquino escape accountability for the Mamasapano fiasco?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective When former president Fidel V. Ramos was insisting that the ultimate responsibility for the Mamasapano fiasco lies with President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, being the commander-in-chief, Malacañang responded by saying that Ramos should wait for the results of the investigation. The Board of Inquiry of the Philippine National Police (PNP)…
The President and his men
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The Mamasapano fiasco triggered the second worst crisis to confront the Aquino the son’s presidency. The first crisis was the result of the expose’ of Aquino’s version of pork barrel funds, the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). The anger toward the discovery of the DAP gave birth to the #MillionPeopleMarch and…
US Marine Pemberton in Camp Aguinaldo: Is it PH or US custody?
Filipino officials, including President Aquino, appear excessively careful as they avoid the use of the words “suspect,”“custody” and “detention” in connection with the US serviceman suspected in the Subic slay, who remains under US custody.
Patients, employees of Orthopedic Center appeal for TRO on privatization
“We hope our SC justices will open their minds and hearts to the difficulties and hardships of poor patients who are being victimized by privatization and other anti-health policies.” Alliance of Health Workers
Aquino’s address in defense of pork generates anger, more protests
Slye Joy Serrano @Slye2812h said: The President thinks the Filipino people can be fooled. Hindi ho kami tanga. #noynoyspeech
Message to Aquino
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Did we get that right? Was Benigno Aquino III blaming the Arroyo regime for the 15% drop in his September approval ratings? Mr. Aquino blames his predecessor’s administration for the corruption that has metastasized in the public sector, the poverty that afflicts millions of Filipinos, and the…