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By MARSHALL AUERBACK Counterpunch International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Once all the TARPs are tidied up and the quarterly profits no longer a revelation, American consumers will still be swaddled in debt. What’s to stop them from just walking away from it–and...
Even if seriously implemented, the Cheaper Medicines Law would still fail to bring down the prices of medicines because it did not break “the monopoly control of transnational corporations on all aspects” of the drug industry. This monopoly is the main reason why drug prices in the Philippines are among the highest in Asia.
By SCOTT THILL AlterNet International Posted by Bulatlat In the past six months, big players in the global economy have grabbed 50 million acres of arable land, from Africa to Southeast Asia. Stop me if you think you've heard this one before: Investment banks,...
By MARK WEISBROT Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat The Great Recession is allowing some widely held beliefs about the US economy – which were the source of much evangelism over the last few decades – to run up against a reality check. This is to be...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by (Bulatlat.com) BAGUIO CITY The Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company together with the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Cordillera Administrative Region...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by (Bulatlat.com) BAGUIO CITY ? Various student groups and individuals led by the Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN) held a cultural parade and a rally here in this city 246 kms. north of Manila on Monday as...
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by (Bulatlat.com) BAGUIO CITY – As President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s allies in the House of Representatives have not given up their move to transform Congress into a Constituent Assembly (ConAss) to amend the 1987...
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“After all the attempts to block the passage of the Magna Carta of Women, the Filipino women have finally emerged victorious. This is a by-product of women’s continuous struggle for equality and serves as a gateway in support of women’s legitimate concerns.” This...
Multisectoral group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) disclosed today that global crude prices fell five times faster than retail pump prices in 2008, resulting in overpricing that reached as high as P12.60 per liter for kerosene and P9.56 for diesel last year....
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com The economic downturn hasn’t persuaded everyone to pinch pennies. Philippines President Maria Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was at Le Cirque the other night with a large entourage enjoying the good life, even though the former...
Ni RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng (Bulatlat.com) Habang may ugat na natatabunan ng tigang na lupa At nadidilig ng mahibik at mahikbing luha, Patuloy na susupang, mamamalumpong at magdadagta Ang bagong sibol na mandirigma Upang kamtin ang paglayang inaadhika Ng isang...
The National Democratic Front accuses the Arroyo government of showing bad faith by not complying with an agreement that provides immunity guarantees to members of the NDF’s panel.
Display of Callousness, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her entourage engaged in a display of callousness when they paid exorbitant amounts for dinners in Washington DC and New York City recently, during Arroyo’s state visit to the US last month. (By Flon Faurillo)
MANILA -- While President Arroyo dined for $20,000 in New York, Manobo children only have lugaw, bread and food rations at the evacuation center at the Diocese Pastoral Center in Tandag, Surigao del Sur. (Photo courtesy of Mapasu and Kalumaran / bulatlat.com) Some...
Ni ROLANDO B. TOLENTINO Kulturang Popular Kultura Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Una nang napabalita ang pagsasara ng mga planta ng Triumph International, ang gumagawa ng bra, at ang protesta ng manggagawa nito hinggil sa “illegal closure.” Magbabawas na rin ang Goodyear,...
By the way Arroyo and her officials spent money left and right in paying for expensive meals and the plane fares and hotel accommodations of the whole entourage during its recent US trip, it seems as if they treat the nation’s coffers as their own expense account.
Dukot's fearlessness emanates from its depiction of the truth about the worsening human-rights situation in the Philippines today. As Bonifacio Ilagan, the scriptwriter, put it: “It minces no words in pointing out the real perpetrators” of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
Freedom from torture is a non-derogable right, meaning that states cannot violate this right under any circumstances, even in a state of emergency or martial law. By insisting that Melissa Roxas is a communist guerrilla, the Arroyo regime not only practically admits that it tortured her -- it seeks to justify the atrocity, thus violating the very international instruments that it had earlier agreed on.
The 11-hour dialogue between the Lumad leaders of MAPASU (Malahutayong Pakigbigsog Alang sa Sumusunod), Church, military officers and the office of the Governor ended in a deadlock when the military led by 401st Infantry Brigade commander Col. Danilo Fabian and...
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