It is wonderful and historic that the American electorate put a black family in the White House. Still, Barack Obama is no magical exception to the rule observed last spring by Howard Zinn: “Let’s remember that even when there is a ‘better’ candidate (yes, better Roosevelt than Hoover, better anyone than George Bush), that difference…
Day: January 24, 2009
Corporate Lobby Lording it Over in UN Conference on Climate Change’ – Green Groups
Environmental groups said that corporate lobby, especially from the oil and energy industries, have a strong voice even among the ranks of civil society organizations during the recent United Nations (UN) conference on climate change. Green groups are therefore calling on the peoples of the world to take direct action to pressure developed countries to…
On Nograles Cha-Cha Reso: Foreign Land Ownership Has Weak Link To Investment
“The experience of our Asian neighbors proves that the relationship between foreign land ownership and overall levels of investment is weak,” said IBON research head Sonny Africa. “This reinforces the suspicion that HR 737 is a ruse to justify charter change for self-serving political ends.” BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by(Bulatlat.com) While the committee on constitutional…
Two Poems on the Palestine-Israel Conflict
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO (Bulatlat.com) Parallels Sixty years have the Palestinians spent away from Palestine, herded into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as the Jews were in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe. For sixty years they have been fleeing from massacres against them, which are not unlike the pogroms of the Holocaust. With…
First Steps on a Long Road
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. –…
Dog house
Dog house. An old woman, her pet and their sidewalk shanty. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva)
Bowing to the Masters of War?
The American people did not elect the Pentagon. They elected Barack Obama based a good deal on his promise to get US troops out of Iraq sooner rather than later. Since he was elected, Mr. Obama has hedged on this promise. Since he was inaugurated, the Pentagon and its civilian boss Robert Gates have hedged…
Nowhere to Turn To
Pagkain, Heograpiya at Etnisidad
May kinalaman ang lugar at tao sa uri ng pagkain kanilang inihahanda.Ang pagkain sa partikular na mga lugar ay pagkilala sa etnisidad ng mga taong lumilikha nito, pati na rin ng heograpiyang pinaghalawan ng kondisyon ng paglikha. NI ROLAND TOLENTINO KULTURANG POPULAR KULTURA Bulatlat Una kong napakinggan ang relasyon ng pagkain at lipunan sa isang…
Group Supports Bill to Expand Legal Services for Overseas Filipino Workers
Overseas Filipino workers have expressed support for a bill seeking to expand legal services for OFWs in distress. BY RONALYN V. OLEA MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Overseas Filipino workers have expressed support for a bill seeking to expand legal services for OFWs in distress. The Migrante-Middle East, an alliance of Filipino migrant organizations with chapters in…
22 Years After Mendiola Massacre: Farmers Still Fighting for Genuine Agrarian Reform
Twenty-two years after the Mendiola Massacre that resulted in the death of 13 farmers, Filipino farmers are still fighting for a genuine agrarian reform program.