A tempered sense of euphoria, spurred by developments in the US economy (the world’s largest, with gross domestic product at $16.245 trillion), qualifies the assessment… 01/24/2014
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At Ground Level
Inequality blurs global recovery
Gatecrashing Nelson Mandela
Tomorrow the South African people, to whom he dedicated his lifetime struggle for freedom, justice, and peace — and his millions of supporter-admirers all over… 01/20/2014
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Parallels: Pork barrel, insurance, pre-need scams
By Satur Ocampo This column’s August 17 piece (“Insurance Commission remiss in regulating pre-need firms”) has elicited more reader reactions. Let me cite just two:… 08/28/2013
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P-Noy mum on human rights, GPH-NDFP peace talks
By Satur C. Ocampo Last August 2, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process issued a quaint statement through its website. It’s… 08/15/2013
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Mandela on armed struggle
By Satur C. Ocampo In homage to his physical resilience versus the logic of the inevitable, one wishes that Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black… 07/08/2013
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Relinking with ICRC
By Satur C. Ocampo Last Thursday I had an hour-long discussion with Pascal Mauchle, the head of delegation of the International Committee of the Red… 05/31/2013
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To P-Noy gov’t: Beware of ruinous Thatcher policies
By Satur C. Ocampo With her death last Monday at 87, Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s only woman prime minister in office for a record 11… 04/26/2013
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Upside and downside of the national economy
By Satur C. Ocampo As expected, President Aquino and his economic team wax euphoric over the official report that the national economy expanded by 6.6%… 02/22/2013
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Gov’t lacks political will to go after the Marcoses
By Satur C. Ocampo One can understand Andres Bautista’s deep frustration in wanting to abolish the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which he has headed… 01/25/2013
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People’s lawyering goes a long way back in history
By Satur C. Ocampo Apolinario Mabini, Jose Abad Santos, Claro M. Recto, Jose W. Diokno, and Lorenzo M. Tanada. What do these historical figures have… 06/08/2012
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