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COMMENTARY | Militarism aggravates people’s sufferings

BY THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE Sunday, June 18, 2017     THE PHILIPPINE chapter of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS-Phils) denounces the presence of...

COMMENTARY | Rape or killing: which is worse?

BY SESTILIO TESTA Friday, June 16, 2017   CHELSEA Clinton – daughter of former US President Bill Clinton and the Democratic contender for the White House Hillary...

COMMENTARY | Stop war games, start peace work!

BY ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED TEACHERS - PHILIPPINES Thursday, May 18, 2017     ON MAY 8-19, 2017, the 33rd iteration of the Balikatan Exercises between the Armed Forces...

COMMENTARY | Journalism assailed on all fronts

Saturday, May 6, 2017   CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, marks World Press Freedom Day with a call for greater protection and respect for journalists...

COMMENTARY | Earth Day amid the scourge of climate change

BY HEHERSON ALVAREZ Saturday, April 22, 2017     TODAY is Earth Day, organized through the initiative of Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin in 1970, and countries of...

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BY BENJIE OLIVEROS A model of democracy? THE upcoming United States presidential election provides a perfect example for the idiom “a choice between the devil and...

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BY THE SONS OF CONFUCIUS PHILOSOPHICAL CLUB OF ST. VINCENT FERRER SEMINARY ARTICLES and commentaries on newspapers contain perverse commission of crime and law violations....

COMMENTARY: Impunity or justice?

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective IT IS ironic that retired Army general Jovito Palparan, who is called “The Butcher” by human rights groups for the trail...

COMMENTARY: Banks rule

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat Perspective A WEEK before his fifth State of the Nation Address, President Benigno Aquino III signed into law Republic Act (RA) 10641...

Commentary: The myth of the principle of equality before the law

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective THE dispensation of “justice”, or rather injustices, is so blatant in the Philippines that one could not help but ask: For...