Opinion

Today’s View : The Art of Caolery

Today’s View : The Art of Caolery

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Jan 22, 2014

(I)n the comforting process of tickling the “funny bone” of the masses, the social problem of poverty and other attendant problems are forgotten or laid aside. It’s like giving a sugared chocolate to a malnourished child in tatters. This is tyranny in its most noxious form, a masked expression of treachery.

TODAY’S VIEW: END THE KILLINGS! WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR TATA BUTALID!

TODAY’S VIEW: END THE KILLINGS! WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR TATA BUTALID!

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Dec 20, 2013

The media organizations under BUGKOS Media Action Group strongly condemn the killing of broadcaster Rogelio ‘Tata’ Butalid of Tagum City, and we join the insistent call for justice for all victims of media killings in our country. We demand no less than the most decisive state intervention to end the senseless murder of journalists and the blatant mockery of our nation’s democracy and justice system.

The HAARP that sounds bad

The HAARP that sounds bad

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Dec 20, 2013

I fear that the captivity of physicist Kim Gargar that magnifies the threat to the lives and liberty of other people’s scientists would also cripple the efforts to investigate the dynamics of the recent disasters like typhoons Pablo and Yolanda.

[Today’s View] Capitalizing on misery of Yolanda

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Dec 15, 2013

So when foreign aid now pours into our country, we are effusively thankful for their help was badly needed. But while others fear of ulterior motive, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alfredo del Rosario seemed to validate the doubt when he called for an increased US military presence in the country.

Today’s View : Permission to loot

Today’s View : Permission to loot

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Nov 18, 2013

The swift netizen defense of alleged Yolanda looters establishes that violence is permissible in the name of survival. But, we have to ask, survival under what conditions? Survival according to whose standards?
The answer to the first seems to be that violence is permissible under conditions over which people have no control, such as natural disasters.