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Continue reading →: Privatized, foreign-controlled elections: the original sin
The ever controversial source code is now finally available, so says poll chief Sixto Brillantes. The catch, however, is that the review can be finished only well after the elections on Monday (May 13). The review could last for as long as six months, meaning the results will be known…
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Continue reading →: Who cares about smuggled oil?
Petron Corporation, the country’s largest oil company, has alleged that about one out of every three liters of gasoline or diesel sold in the Philippines is smuggled. For the government that translates to P30-40 billion in lost revenues a year, said Petron boss Ramon S. Ang. For the company it…
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Continue reading →: Sabah crisis: Is Aquino siding with Malaysia to protect relatives’ business interests?
The “journey home” to Sabah of some 200 followers of the Sultanate of Sulu more than a month ago has escalated into a full blown humanitarian crisis. More than a thousand Filipinos have fled Sabah that for decades they called home. Men, women and children took any boat available in…
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Continue reading →: LRT 1 privatization: public to bear costs of guaranteed private profits
It’s the same old story. We have seen it before in the privatization of the National Power Corp. (Napocor) where consumers are now being forced to pay more to shoulder stranded costs arising from sweetheart deals with private power generators. We have seen it in the privatization of the MRT…
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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…
I’m Arnold Padilla, a Filipino activist, writer, and researcher.
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