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PRESS RELEASE January 28, 2011 Anakbayan, a militant group of young workers, professionals, and students today hailed the successful popular uprising in the North African nation of Tunisia against its former dictator, saying it is a warning to President Benigno...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
During the first public hearings into the deaths of Leonard Co and company conducted by the Commission on Human Rights, soldiers admitted that fired their weapons at the direction of the three victims but at the same time denied having killed them.
By MAUREEN A. HERMITANIO
The 10 who fell to their death at Lucio Tan’s construction site were contractual workers. Subcontracting and labor-only contracting are a common practice in the construction industry, where workers are thoroughly exploited.
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By FIDEL CASTRO Counterpunch Posted by Bulatlat.com I shall relate a bit of history. When the Spanish “discovered” us five hundred years ago, the estimated population on the Island was no more than 200,000 inhabitants who were living in harmony with nature. Their...
By ANDREW BACEVICH Counterpunch Posted by Bulatlat.com In defense circles, "cutting" the Pentagon budget has once again become a topic of conversation. Americans should not confuse that talk with reality. Any cuts exacted will at most reduce the rate of growth. The...
By RENATO M. REYES JR. Like a Rolling Stone Posted by Bulatlat.com Second of two parts First part: Oplan Bayanihan: Grand Psywar Scheme and Continuing Violence Against the People Flawed premises Oplan Bayanihan is based on flawed premises and a denial of the...
By RENATO M. REYES JR. Like a Rolling Stone Posted by Bulatlat.com First of two parts Last December 22, 2010, President Benigno Aquino III unveiled the new Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP) that would replace the bloody Oplan Bantay Laya. The plan was called...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com A broad range of causes, from lovelessness to poverty and even climate, have been blamed in the effort to explain criminality, with which the human race has been afflicted since a caveman ran...
By RICHARD R. GAPPI Bulatlat.com At the town’s main hub will stand high-rise buildings, luxury resorts and a new hall that will mark heads and pockets with “THIS IS SAN JUAN: A GREAT TOWN,” at the expense of helpless babies and kids suffocated by the...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK | The Pinaglabanan residents did not need my tears. They needed help. And if reporting about their struggles and exposing what they had to go through could help, why would I deny it to them?
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