The great Irish philosopher Edmund Burke said that for evil to triumph, all that is necessary is that good men do nothing. I am reminded of Burke’s words as I look into the culture of impunity here in the Philippines. Impunity is a big word and so are the men behind it. And on the other side is a government that allows it to happen. In December last year, a local court has issued a warrant of arrest against ...

Much to my own surprise, I'm not paying extra for organic food products to avoid funding dead zones on the sea floor caused by agricultural fertilizer run-off from non-organic aka "conventional" farms. I'm not buying organic food to abstain from supporting industrialized farming in leaking excess pesticides into our ground water, each year leading to polluted bore holes being shut down and new ones having t ...

We rarely see the stories that can help to overcome the fears of people in the countries where refugees seek help. Perhaps the power of the moving image can go some of the way to overcoming this lack. Aki Kaurismäki's film 'Le Harve' has such power. ...

How corporations with dodgy social and environmental records are using London OIympics for greenwashing the public. ...

Movies have the Oscar, cultural and scientific advances have the Nobel Prize. As far as awards go in media, nothing lends more prestige than a Pulitzer. Self-declared "Internet newspaper" Huffington Post, one of the most controversial players in online media, has been breaking out the bubbly after taking a step into respectability by winning a Pulitzer Prize, the traditional standard of journalistic excelle ...

She was bethroded to a man she did not know. The man had allegedly performed all the customary marriage rites while she was still at her tender age. Madam Akurugo (not her real name) who is now confined in one of the witches camps in Ghana narrated a horrified story living under a man she called her husband. ...

The Millennium Development Goals, set up in the year 2000 by world leaders to eradicate global poverty, failed to address one crucial issue – energy. To correct this error, politicians come up with a set of initiatives that promise to deliver sustainable energy to all people of our planet. ...

For several weeks now, various stakeholders here in my country, the Philippines, have been debating, clashing and trading barbs through the media on the benefits of mining. On one side, giant mining companies, which earn big from the business, are defending the benefits of mining. It helps the local communities they say. On the other side, environmentalists and local communities are stressing that mining do ...

While in the heating up French presidential campaign environmental questions stay in the shadow of major themes like national safety, emigration policy, outcome of economical crisis, people of the France send politicians a clear message ...

The smell of wrath in Syntagma Square is still thick- for the last two years this place in the center of Athens seem like the barrel of a gun named social despair, pointing straight to the heart of the Parliament, on the other site of the road… ...