BULATLAT FILE PHOTO: KontraDaya in action. Volunteers processing field reports last election day The vehicle for some semblance of democratization has become a family affair to political dynasties and their partylists, and a way for big businesses to protect and promote their special interests. By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Even the crumbs allotted to…
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Press Release, 31 January 2022 Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan lauded the efforts of United States legislators, particularly the 24 representatives in the US Congress led by Pennsylvania 7th District Rep. Susan Wild, urging US State Secretary Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to impose targeted sanctions using the US Global Magnitsky Act on…
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison made light of yet another threat against him by his former student Rodrigo Duterte. Responding to Duterte’s latest invective-laced tirade against him, Sison said the President has repeated so many times to kill him he is considering it a “term of endearment.“…
Marking the anniversary of the first ever internet connection in the Philippines, alternative media outifts are fighting back as they filed a civil complaint for damages against two companies found by experts to be the source of the relentless cyber-attacks against their websites. “This is definitely a first and it will serve as a testament…
But are they the same? Not exactly because one involves a doctrine and the other, a statute. Published 7:49 PM, February 02, 2018 Updated 11:20 PM, February 02, 2018 IN DEFENSE. Solicitor General Jose Calida defends Malacañang’s suspension of Overall Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang despite a Supreme Court ruling taking away the President’s power to…