Republicans makes Obama's economic plans murky
Region: United States
Everything seems getting out of hand these days between the Democrats and the Republicans in the US Congress. Now that President Barack Obama had laid out his ambitious plans to buoy up America's sagging economy, some of t... more
Views: 618SM Management Needs to Beef Up Security
Region: Philippines
Unless one has experienced something horrific, he or she wouldn't learn a good lesson in life. This was what happened to my wife a week after she and my 17-year-old daughter went on a shopping spree at the new SM Shopping... more
Views: 971AIG Bailout Money Squandered
Region: United States
How awesome and frustrating it may seem to learn that those corporate executives who may have contributed to the financial downfall of the world's biggest insurance group-- the American Insurance Group (AIG)... more
Views: 865U.S. Vows to Import 500,000 Foreign Nurses
Region: Philippines
It's hard to believe when President Barack Obama said during a healthcare summit held at the White House recently about the plan of the United States government to import at least 500,000 foreign nurses to fill up the curr... more
Views: 2593What Needs to be Done in Gaza?
Region: Israel
Kind of a million dollar question that needs to be digested in order to come up with the right, if not, probable solutions to the problems that now put the relationship between the Hamas militants and the Israel military i... more
Views: 1189Clinton ignores corrupt Asian country
Region: PhilippinesThe just concluded official trip of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to a number of Asian countries was a welcome opportunity for these governments to further strengthen and improve bilateral relations, especially on ... more
Views: 805Op-Ed: Bailout Money in Exchange for Majority Stocks
Region: United StatesThere is something that keeps bothering me as I write this article for GroundReport.com. This is particularly true with the present recession that plagues the United States economy, whose wide-ranging impacts on the rest o... more
Views: 793Police officials' sojourn in Moscow questioned
Region: PhilippinesWhat an untimely piece of news to hear that a number of ranking police officials in the Philippines has been allowed by the National Police Commission (Napolcom) to attend police-related seminars abroad? With the economi... more
Views: 1000BBC needs to apologize to Filipino women
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)It is sad to learn from media reports that Filipina domestic helpers in Great Britain were portrayed in a bad light. And the culprit is the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which aired a Filipina DH doing some gyra... more
Views: 1367Wall Street meltdown cripples weaklings
Region: PhilippinesThe financial volatility in the Wall Street has spread without control to the rest of the world, thus putting some corporate subsidiaries' in the international markets without any option but to suffer the tailspin of the L... more
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Al Jeratso is a freelance journalist, writer, poet and blogger. Many of his articles, touching on a wide variety of issues, appeared in major leading dailies and magazines both in Manila and abroad, including the United States and England. He held various editorial positions with several media organizations, the last of which was as senior news editor of a newswires organization in Manila.
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