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Bulatlat Perspective

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | Violence against women and children, a social malady

BY BENJIE OLIVEROSS Sunday, June 25, 2017     THE FESTERING, worsening economic and social crisis has not only resulted in widespread poverty and hunger, worsening social inequities...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | The war that refuses to go away

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Saturday, June 24, 2017 THE BATTLE for control of Marawi City has been going on for a month already, and there is still...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | Another threat of a constitutional crisis?

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Sunday, June 11, 2017   RECENTLY, House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez warned of a constitutional crisis if the Supreme Court orders a joint session of...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | Ruffling the feathers of conservatives

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Sunday, June 4, 2017     TWO ISSUES are ruffling the feathers of conservatives: divorce and same-sex marriage. Pope Francis was quoted admitting that there are...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | The on and off peace talks

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Saturday, June 3, 2017     AFTER an optimistic end to the fourth round of peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | Never again! It’s time to show we are also serious

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Sunday, May 28, 2017 PEOPLE were half expecting it, and we have always shouted “Never again!” in response to these threats. And now,...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | A challenge to the new Environment Secretary

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Thursday, May 25, 2017     A MAJOR online daily reported that mere days after the rejection of former Environment secretary Gina Lopez by the...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Saturday, May 20, 2017   THE PREVALENCE of impunity and the excruciatingly slow progress in the Ampatuan massacre case already give the people a...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | The failed promises of privatization

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Thursday, May 18, 2017     PRIVATIZATION, by whatever name – Build-Operate-Transfer or Public-Private Partnerships – was touted to be the solution to the...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | The urgent fight for sovereignty

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Saturday, May 13, 2017 ONE hundred eighteen years ago, the first Philippine republic was declared and even for a brief moment, the Filipino...