Are we turning into a nation of bullies yet cowards?
WHAT HAS become of us?
The internet, and with it, social media, that was supposed to expand the platforms where people could exercise their freedom...
Duterte govātās proclivity for short cuts backfires
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Thursday, March 22, 2018
PEOPLE have been saying this all along: the Duterte administration could not solve the illegal drug problem with the...
Fading memory or a concerted effort to make people forget?
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Monday, March 12, 2018
THIRTY-TWO years since the first EDSA People Power and the celebrations continue to lose its spirit, and the crowds...
Are we getting anywhere with a tough talking President?
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Saturday, February 24, 2018
DURING his presidential campaign, Rodrigo Duterte vowed that if he becomes president, he would solve the illegal drug problem...
The wild, wild swing of the Duterte administration
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Friday, September 8, 2017
āCHANGE is coming.ā That was the campaign teaser of Rodrigo Roa Duterte when he was running for president. His...
The specter of a dictatorship
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Saturday, September 2, 2017
TOO many things have been happening lately that may be a portent of worse things to come.
First is the...
Legal but unjust compensation
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
āJUST COMPENSATIONā, when referring to agrarian reform, is an oxymoron. All agrarian reform programs of Philippine presidents provide for ājust compensationā for...
Something is terribly wrong
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
THE KILLING of 17-year old Kian Delos Santos has enraged netizens, human rights groups, the Catholic Church, cultural artists, and has alarmed...
BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | Lessons from terrible tragedies
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Saturday, July 1, 2017
TYPHOONS Yolanda, Ondoy, Pedring, Sendong, Pablo, and freak monsoon rains have resulted in too much disaster, too many lives...
BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | Who is afraid of the Reds?
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Thursday, June 29, 2017
LOOK beyond the name-calling and the labels – communist-terrorists, extortionists, ideological orphans, Stalinists, followers of a lost cause –...