By FIDEL V. AGCAOILI Chairperson, Human Rights Committee National Democratic Front of the Philippines A sure sign that the Arroyo…
COMMENTARY | By Ibon Foundation
Contrary to the Arroyo government’s claims of a social payback in exchange for new tax measures, only 17 centavos out of every peso in revenues are allocated in next year’s budget for health, education and housing services. In the budget, funding for government hospitals was slashed by 12 percent. By contrast, the Department of National Defense will get thrice as much as the health department.
COMMENTARY
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is not yet off the hook. She may have to face her day of reckoning as a private citizen, probably even before her term ends in 2010.
COMMENTARY | By Amirah Ali Lidasan
Who committed the beheading and why did the perpetrators commit such act is a very controversial and sensitive issue that should have been responded to with discretion rather than warmongering. For weeks, it is as if every Muslim has to answer for it.
Command responsibility: Can President Arroyo evade it?
What the European Union should do on killings
Councilor Angela Librado-Trinidad delivered a privilege speech at the City Council this week denouncing the so-called “re-engineering” of the bureaucracy, which, she said, threatens the job security and welfare of government workers in the city.
Analysis | It takes more than a moral alternative and religious preaching to be able to take a gutsy position on big issues. The flock should be shepherded into the mass movement for social emancipation that has long taken roots.
By V. Bruce J. Tolentino The Asia Foundation Economic policy reform is inherently political. Economic policies are codified into public…
The anti-terrorism act: Recipe for undeclared martial law
