ABS-CBN employees and supporters join #SONAgkaisa protest, July 27. (Photo by Aaron Macaraeg/Bulatlat) “Never since the late unlamented Marcos dictatorship has a president ever deigned to shut down the independent media and stifle criticism and dissent.” By ALYSSA MAE CLARIN Bulatlat.com MANILA– For the first time, former ABS-CBN senior correspondent Ces Drilon went to a…
Filipino migrants in Asia-Pacific will not be silenced as Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s trumpets boasts and lies in his fourth State of the Nation Address (SoNA). The situation of migrants has always been miserable, but it is worse now due to COVID-19 and the Philippine government’s ineptitude. And now that more and more people are clamoring…
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Mr. President, if indeed you do not evade your human rights obligations, why opt out of the Rome Statute when investigation on your alleged crimes against humanity was initiated? Why do you continue to malign and undermine United Nations Special Procedures who seek to visit and investigate the rights violations in the Philippines? Why did…
An oligarchy is governed by a few families and individuals. While wealth is indeed among its members’ more obvious attributes, wealth alone does not make an oligarch. The capacity to influence or control government and governance does. An oligarch is therefore someone who, by virtue of birth, wealth, religious affiliation, or control over the coercive…
As of last Thursday, at least 16 petitions had already been filed before the Supreme Court, asking it to strike down the new Anti-Terrorism Act (RA 11479) – either in its entirety or several of its provisions assailed for their “vagueness” and “overbreadth/over-reach” – for violating the Constitution. The law, passage of which was railroaded…
Duterte depicted as the virus that inflicts harm on the lives of the Filipino people. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat) By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Despite warnings from government not to join protests, at least 8,000 went out of their homes and gathered at University Avenue in UP Diliman a few hours before President…
Beneficiaries of social amelioration program lining up to receive aid in Quezon City, May5, 2020. (Photo by PINOY WEEKLY) “The government have the funds but why not utilize it for aid? They have the machinery but the process has been slow. They (government) prioritized the Anti-Terror Law and term extension than the people’s stomach.” By…