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The list of Obama nominees not to have paid their taxes continues to grow. BY DAVID MACARAY CounterPunch INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat “We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.” -- Leona Helmsley The list of Obama nominees not to have paid their...
Naomi Klein and Rabbi Arthur Waskow debate whether divestment will bring peace to the Middle East. BY JOEL BLEIFUSS In These Times INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat At the height of the war in Gaza, author Naomi Klein endorsed the campaign known as Boycott,...
Walang brilliance ang doodles, at ang pagiging pasaway. Kaya dapat ay mas malaking bigwas ang itaya ng mamamayan at kilusan para mabawasan, kundi man, mapatalsik ang pasaway na administrasyon. Sa kaharian ng mga pasaway, kailangang maging mas malaking pasaway ang...
As the government lays the ground for the acquittal of Subic rape convict L/CPL Daniel Smith of the US Marines, there are reports that the US troops participating in the Balikatan military exercises in Bicol are enjoying prostitution “services”. With this, the government is allowing the country’s honor to be raped over and over. (Flon Faurillo / Bulatlat.com )
Who says automated elections will eliminate cheating?
An organization of computer experts in the country warned of possible automated large-scale cheating in the 2010 elections.
Prof. Jose Maria Sison, chief political consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and chairperson of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), was happy when the Dutch Public Prosecution Service decided to dismiss the charges...
A fact-finding mission led by various peasant groups and non-government organizations revealed that farmers in Nueva Ecija towns received substandard hybrid rice seeds under the government’s GMA Rice Program. Worse, the Department of Agriculture’s response to the...
To eliminate the ASG, Amirah Lidasan, secretary-general of the Moro Christian Peoples’ Alliance, said the MNLF and the MILF need to muster the political will to put an end to the groups that perpetrate kidnappings. It would mean, she said, helping cut the warlords’ power over the communities, as well as their ties with the local government, the military, and the police. “The government will not do anything like that, since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo even coddles known warlords in Mindanao,” Lidasan said.
Rev. Fr. Dionito M. Cabillas or Fr. Diony to his parishioners and colleagues, received information that he was included in the ‘top ten’ of the military’s order of battle. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat On March 12, at around 8:25 a.m., Fr. Rex...
The January 15 kidnapping of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers Filipina Mary Jean Lacaba, Italian Eugenio Vagni, and Swiss Andreas Notte is truly deplorable. However, the bigger question is not why the Abu Sayyaf did it but how. How could the...
NI JOI BARRIOS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Mahal na kabaro, Mahal na kapatid, Ang balita tungkol sa babaeng ginahis, nagsakdal, at nagpalit ng testimonya ay balitang batid kong lumatay sa bawat dibdib, pinipilit ang bawat isa na bumagtas sa ngayon at sa nakalipas, sa...
In Philippines, a Political Bloodbath Persists
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Release by NPA of POWs in Rizal
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BY BULATLAT A progressive legislator chided President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for her ‘haste in deploying overseas Filipino workers to war-torn Lebanon and Jordan. On Wednesday, Arroyo, through Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, announced the lifting of the...
Artists, Cultural Workers in 'People's Procession'
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BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat At the end of International Women’s Month, another woman, a widow of a slain activist, became a victim of politically motivated killings. Edelina Jolloso-Jerus, 37, was shot dead yesterday in front of her two children aged ten and eight...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat The Dutch government’s Public Prosecution Service has dismissed the murder charges against Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman and current National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief...
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