What is wrong with the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market?
by Dean de la Paz, as originally posted at What is wrong with the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market? at the Philippine Online Chronicles/Blog Watch Channel...
Are stricter gun controls the answer?
By James Aaron Mangun, as originally posted at the Philippine Online Chronicles, Blog Watch As the year began, there were several reports of deaths from...
Post-Yolanda: Aquino’s disaster conspiracy with World Bank, ADB
by Carlos Maningat as originally posted at Post-Yolanda: Aquino’s disaster conspiracy with World Bank, ADB Filipinos will foot an even bigger foreign debt bill in the...
5 Achievements of the Aquino Administration, and the Philippines in 2013
by Cocoy Dayao, as originally posted at POC/Blog Watch: 5 Achievements of the Aquino Administration, and the Philippines in 2013 Much has been said about...
Super Lolo Enrile, Aquinomics Bomb, Napoles-Luses: Firecrackers and fireworks to mark the end of 2013
By Dine Racoma, as originally posted at Super Lolo Enrile, Aquinomics Bomb, Napoles-Luses: Firecrackers and fireworks to mark the end of 2013 It’s that time...
Just the facts, ma’am (On Mayor Junjun Binay and security guards of Dasmarinas Village)
By Jego Ragracio, as originally posted at Just the facts, ma’am (On Mayor Junjun Binay It’s one thing for people to defend Mayor Junjun Binay...
Pope Francis: Radical for God, Radical for the Poor
By Jane Uymatiao, Originally posted at Blog Watch of the Philippine Online Chronicles This recently-hailed Time’s Person of the Year was not among the top...
Threat to Threat: How to Influence Supreme Court Justices
By Bernadine Racoma, originally posted at Blog Watch, Threat to Threat: How to Influence Supreme Court Justices So what assistance would the “small lady” be offering...
Health advocates welcome victory over PDAF’s unconstitutionality
via Alternative Budget Initiative (ABI) Finally, the health of the Filipino people seizes to become just another target for political patronage of traditional politicians. This...
On SC ruling: Triumph of collective action
We welcome the SC ruling declaring the Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF) unconstitutional as a victory of the Filipino people’s collective action. It is...
The struggles I share with the victims of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
by RJ Barrete I grew up in the province of Samar (one of the affected and damaged by typhoon Haiyan), and there I saw how...
The Presidential Miscommunications Development and No-Planning Office
By Dean de la Paz – Originally posted on Blog Watch at thepoc.net It was unprecedented. The model they copied seemed plagiarized straight out of...
Corruption, Climate, Congress: Preying on Philippine Resilience and Faith
November 9, 2013 at 3:10am by Prof. Dr. Diane A. Desierto (JSD, Yale) Anyone born, bred, raised, and educated in the Philippines instinctively knows what...
Putin and Obama: a comparative irony of the “dove” and the “hawk”
But Russia sometimes can play a positive role in world politics, in spite of the fact that I want to stress again in internal policy...
#ScrapPork Redistribute and socialize pork funds
This is a press statement of Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) Instead of Malacanang and Congress leaders colluding again to retain the fraudulent...