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Continue reading →: Tubbataha grounding: Expect more abuses as US pivots to Asia
The grounding of the USS Guardian on the Tubbataha Reef shows one of the many dangers that increased US military presence in the country brings. Just several months prior to the destruction of a portion of the protected reefs by the 224-foot American minesweeper, which reports peg at about 1,000…
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Continue reading →: Prepaid electricity, anyone?
Imagine yourself engrossed in your favorite teleserye one night. As a plot-twisting revelation was about to be told by one of the main characters, power was suddenly shut off. It wasn’t a brownout because all your neighbors still had their lights on and only your unfortunate household was engulfed in…
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Continue reading →: “Growth” for big business, at the people’s expense
Read first part Structural issues With the rapid and steady decline of the domestic labor market, labor export has further intensified under Aquino who deploys an average of 1.58 million OFWs a year, a significant jump from the 1 million during Arroyo’s term. If you stretch the comparison to the…
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Continue reading →: Economy in 2012: Rising joblessness, poverty amid Aquino admin’s claims of growth
In 2012, the dominant theme peddled by the Aquino administration was “good governance is good economics”. The main propaganda line of Malacañang is that the “daang matuwid” (straight path) has created a favorable environment for economic growth that is inclusive. From being the sick man of Asia, the country now…
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Continue reading →: PH water rates among Asia’s highest
We already know that power rates in the Philippines are the most expensive in Asia. What we do not know yet which will certainly make our collective blood pressure rise is that water rates in the country are also among the highest in the region. Using the same 2011 survey…
I’m Arnold Padilla, a Filipino activist, writer, and researcher.
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