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The same people who sell the Pentagon billions of dollars in technology are advising the Pentagon on what scientific and technical matters to focus on in the years to come. | By NICK TURSE AlterNet International Posted by Bulatlat.com On January 5, 2010 the U.S....
By MARK WEISBROT Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Alan Greenspan had a dream, or rather a nightmare. Greenspan seems to have woken up in a cold sweat one morning in fear that the period of "disinflationary pressures" that had kept inflation low since...
Middle East Online International Posted by Bulatlat.com New Left Project In a wide-ranging interview with the New Left Project, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook describes the increasingly repressive nature of Israeli society and the prospects for a solution...
By ACE ALEGRE Regions Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY - Baguio City is again roused from sleep with another multi-million peso “questionable deal”. This time by the Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) for purchasing a P184 million-worth ($4,031,639) 1.2...
Who are the 43 health workers? The 43 health workers, also known as “Morong 43”, are health professionals and volunteer community health workers who were arrested in Rizal on February 6, following a raid by the combined forces of the Armed Forces of the Philippines...
In a forum today, March 13, between the relatives and lawyers/supporters of the Morong 43, the relatives expressed the difficulties they face more than a month after the 43 health workers were taken by soldiers during a health training in Morong, Rizal. They spoke of the hardships they have to endure each time they visit their relatives in Camp Capinpin, the harassment many of them continue to face from the military, and of their despair in seeing their loved ones behind bars.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said today that 15 soldiers -- not 11 as initially reported in the media -- died in the firefight between government troops and New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, on March 6.
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PRESS RELEASE March 12, 2010 Farmers from Bgy. Tungkong Mangga, San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan protested today at San Miguel Corp. main office in Ortigas Center opposing Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco's take-over of the MRT 7 project. Tungkong Mangga is the site of the...
PRESS RELEASE March 12, 2010 Davao City ---- The Katribu Partylist denounced the arrest and detention for more than 36 hours of 13 farmers--mostly, Lumads--by soldiers of the 25th Infantry Battallion-10th Infantry Division in Monkayo town, Compostela Valley. The...
12 March 2010 PRESS RELEASE One week after ending their camp-out in front of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), the repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers from the Annasban Group of Companies today trooped back to picket at the agency’s doorsteps,...
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The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR), an NGO that documents and monitors human-rights violations committed against workers in the Philippines, released today a report that says that, in the past 50 years, unemployment in the country is highest in the nine years that President Arroyo is in power and that attacks on workers and unionists have worsened.
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