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By PATRICK COCKBURN Counterpunch International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) In Iraq and Afghanistan American and British forces became participants in civil wars which their own presence has exacerbated and prolonged. The US and UK governments persistently ignore the...
Rags-to-Riches Not At All. A rag vendor takes a rest by the sidewalk. (By Pom Cahilog-Villanueva)
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat MANKAYAN, Benguet ? The local government unit (LGU) here is convinced that the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company is liable for the massive sinking on June 5 of Aurora St. in Barangay Poblacion. The disaster...
By WENDY ATUBAN Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY? The ancestral land claimants at the Busol watershed who have been issued demolition orders despite having pending applications for ancestral land titles at the National Commission on Indigenous...
By GRACE UDDIN Indigenous Peoples Watch Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat DAVAO CITY— A partylist representative and leaders of indigenous peoples’ groups in Mindanao said there is no reason to celebrate the 15th year of International Day of Indigenous Peoples as the...
BY JAILA SAGPA-EY AND JS TABANGCURA Culture Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat LA TRINIDAD, Benguet ?The early people of Benguet actually used ethnic blankets woven by the Ilocanos of Tagudin and Bangar, Ilocos Province. Contrary to the present generation's...
The environment department blamed heavy rains for the massive erosion of soil and garbage at the dumpsite in Rodriguez town, Rizal, last month. But environmentalists and scientists are not buying the explanation and have warned of future disasters.
In the afternoon of Aug. 14, the Saudi police raided the safehouse of the migrant NGO Kapatiran sa Gitnang Silangan and arrested and detained 18 Filipinos, including several runaway OFWs. Their crime? They violated a Saudi law that forbids unrelated men and women from living together.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Arroyo government and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are seeing red again. This time, they are attacking, of all places, schools that serve Lumad communities. Long neglected by the government, the Lumad...
Special Report | First of Three Parts A non-formal school in Surigao del Sur has shown how education serves as a tool to unite and develop Lumad communities. Now, amid the evacuation by Manobo villages triggered by the presence of soldiers, the school is being targeted by the military, claiming that it is an “NPA school.”
The Philippine military, through its attack dogs Pastor Alcover and Jovito Palparan, are trying to discredit the Commission on Human Rights and its chairperson, Leila de Lima. Human-rights groups are understandably concerned. “Now that the CHR chairperson insists on the mandate of the commission, they consider her as an enemy,” Marie Hilao-Enriquez of Karapatan said. “That is the most dangerous mindset.”
Developments that show the popularity of activism through social networks and other online media have led some people to believe that activism online would be sufficient in addressing issues of general concern. But is it really?
Groups Slam US Warship 'Goodwill Visit'
Malacañang officials claimed they merely had “a simple dinner” in Le Cirque, but Nanay Evelyn Monicario cannot imagine what a lavish dinner for Arroyo and her cohorts would be, considering that she herself considers sardines a lavish meal these days.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Ariel Guanlao was told that New Zealand was "the right choice" if one wants to work abroad. So after 16 long years working for the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), he went to New Zealand to work as a...
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Kulturang Popular Kultura Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Limang taon pa lamang ang indie cinema sa bansa, pero malinaw na ang demographics ng indie filmmaker: kabataan, edad na di tatanda sa 40, kalakhan ay lalake ang direktor, tapos ng degree sa...
Progressive Filipino-American youths from Anakbayan New York/New Jersey, USA joined striking workers of at least four nursing home facilities in New Jersey and New York in their fight for justice in the workplace. With members of allied organizations from Bagong...
By RITCHE T. SALGADO Bulatlat.com CEBU CITY – A new broad alliance in Cebu initiated the gathering of 10-million signatures for the environment. The Visayas Climate Action Network (Visayas CAN) aims to convince the public to start becoming more responsible for...
By RITCHE T. SALGADO Bulatlat.com CEBU CITY - Gov. Gwendolyn F. Garcia recently apologized to Cebuanos for lack of discretion in purchasing a property that will be used as a dump for coal ash that will be generated by a coal-fired power plant being built in Naga....
Page 2 of 2 The reason we apparently do not adopt this alternative approach is because the banks wanted to avoid price discovery on their “legacy assets” by all means possible. They do not want the world knowing how many toxic assets they really have on their books...
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