Honoring of teachers is empty without grant of substantial pay hike
BY THE ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED TEACHERS
THE GOVERNMENT’s theme for this year’s
recent Teachers’ Month celebration, “Gurong
Pilipino: Handa sa Makabagong Pagbabago”, reeked of irony as the...
End impunity, free expression!
BY ANNIE GAME, IFEX
ON THIS International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists (Nov. 2), it’s important to recognize the essential link between...
Long overdue K-12 review
BY ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED TEACHERS
CONGRESS and the Department of Education’s (DepEd) recent push to review the K to 12 program is five years late....
Concern over raids, mass arrests of activists
BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
A COORDINATED set of raids by police and the army in Negros Occidental and Metro Manila and the subsequent arrest of dozens...
Vaccination: Most deceptive tool of imperialism, 5
By ROMEO F. QUIJANO, M.D.
Worldwide alarm about bioterrorism provided an opportunity to link together health and national/international security. Not only would health-care workers open...
Vaccination: Most deceptive tool of imperialism, 4
By ROMEO F. QUIJANO, M.D.
WHEN national immunization campaigns were initiated in the 1950s, the number of reported cases of polio following mass inoculations with...
Vaccination: Most deceptive tool of imperialism, 3
By ROMEO F. QUIJANO, M.D.
The Rockefeller Foundation discovered
that medicine was an almost irresistible force in the colonization of
non-industrialized countries. During the US occupation of...
Vaccination: Most deceptive tool of imperialism, 2
By ROMEO F. QUIJANO, M.D.
Imperialism is driven by the pressure of capital for external fields of investment. The recurrent crises of overproduction and subsequent...
Vaccination: Most deceptive tool of imperialism, 1
By ROMEO F. QUIJANO, M.D.
VACCINATION is probably the most deceptive tool of imperialism that even anti-imperialists often fail to recognize. It displays a humanitarian...
The power of suggestion
BY JOSE B. MAROMA JR.
WHEN one delivers a message, it’s not always smart to be frank and blunt. It may sometimes be preferable to...