Protesters maintain that Duterte is the real terrorist wreaking havoc on the people’s lives. (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / Bulatlat) “It is clear that the law will be used against critics and dissenters.” By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Human rights lawyers are one in saying that the newly-enacted Anti-Terror Law or Republic…
In its recent pre-SONA forum, the economic team spent the most time talking about four years of infrastructure accomplishments. On the other hand, there was next to nothing about the government’s plans for economic recovery from the serious crisis brought on by the pandemic. The misplaced emphasis on infrastructure during the pre-SONA forum only reflects…
More than 9 million students in both private and public schools had enrolled online for schoolyear 2020-2021 as the month of June ended. The resumption of K-12 classes is scheduled for Aug. 24 this year, hence the Department of Education’s (DepEd) reserving the entire month of June for registration, and later extending it till July….
Over the last four years of Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s presidency, we may have gotten used to seeing, hearing, or reading about how he has tended to say one thing and, in the same instance, he walks back on that statement and states the opposite. This happened again last Tuesday during his weekly late-night televised address…
By WILLIAM SAUNDERS, JR.* Hold fast to the gift of fire! I am rage! I am wrath! I am ire! The vulture sits on my rock, Licks at the chains that mock Emancipation’s breath, Reeks of death, death, death – Prometheus Unbound, Ruben Cuevas Drenched in the blood of her sons, Under the moon’s lone…
In this Bulatlatan episode, Nonoy Espina, chairperson of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and Maria… Posted by Bulatlat on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 In this Bulatlatan episode, theater artist and writer Maria Victoria Beltran who was recently detained for her satirical post and veteran journalist, chairperson of National Union of Journalists of…
Days before the new Anti-Terrorism Law takes effect, the Duterte administration continues to spread disinformation about IBON that suspiciously makes it fit into the law’s definition of terrorism. The government propaganda outfit Philippine News Agency (PNA) and National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) both recently claimed that an alleged New People’s…