Today’s Views

The world’s prayer

The world’s prayer

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Mar 23, 2016

This week, all Christians are called upon to spend some moments of reflection, introspection, meditation — prayerful thoughts of inward reckoning — a form of accounting for everything we have so far behaved, acted and done as followers of Jesus Christ— how we have played our varied roles and shared a part or the whole of our lives to make this world a better place to dwell on—what the Great Teacher has left as a legacy for all humankind.

Salute and apology

Salute and apology

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Mar 21, 2016

What is unwritten is that these changes are being done because of externally-sourced policies, namely, the K to 12, new CHED policies, and ASEAN integration.

Women in politics

Women in politics

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Mar 12, 2016

While an increasing number of women occupy higher positions in local public offices such as mayor and vice-mayor, governor and vice-governor, their orientation does not automatically mean advocating and defending women human rights nor taking up issues of discrimination and gender equity.

STANDPOINT | Turn bourgeois reactionary elections into the people’s advantage

STANDPOINT | Turn bourgeois reactionary elections into the people’s advantage

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Mar 11, 2016

The forthcoming national elections, as with all previous elections since the so-called EDSA I “people power revolution” and the parade of bogus republics in the past, will never be a genuine expression of the slogan “from the people, by the people and for the people” much less embody the hope for the vast underprivileged majority to become the real bosses of the country.

EDITORIAL|Aquino’s roadblock to peace

EDITORIAL|Aquino’s roadblock to peace

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Mar 10, 2016

The most recent clashes between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Moro armed groups in Lanao Del Sur and surrounding areas have forcibly driven around 6,000 to 10,000 Moro people out of their homes, and resulted to the deaths of yet unaccounted number of civilians.