NI TOTO DIVINO Inilathala ng Bulatlat Kanina lang, kanina lang, nariyan pa sila. Mga halaklak at tawang-anghel sa lupa Dito, dito, o maaaring sa dako pa doon Doon ko huling narinig ang mga awit nila. Bilis, habulin natin ang mga bakas ng tinig Ang buntot ng...
By Julian Borger and Jonathan Steele The Guardian UK Posted by Bulatlat Defence chief attacked on war's third anniversary. Ex-PM Allawi says conflict is tantamount to civil war. A former US army general yesterday called for Donald Rumsfeld to resign on grounds of...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Posted 12:25 p.m. March 3, 2006 Members of the legal profession conquered Edsa Shrine on March 3, less than an hour before the president lifted the state of emergency at 11:30 a.m. The lawyers and law students, led by the Integrated Bar of the...
BY BULATLAT Posted 12:05 p.m. March 3, 2006 President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lifted the state of emergency March 3, a week after she declared it supposedly to quash an alleged coup plot. The lifting was made after her advisers assured her that the coup threat had...
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:00pm March 2, 2006 Anakpawis Rep. Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran, 73, suffered mild hypertension before noon today and is presently confined at the Philippine National Police General Hospital (PNP GH) inside Camp Crame compound in Quezon City. PNP GH...
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:30 p.m. March 1, 2006 The six farmers accused of killing brothers Michael and Paul Quintos – sons of a local landlord in Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro – on Dec. 13, 1997 were meted out the death penalty this morning in an 80-page decision by...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Posted 5:55 p.m. Feb. 28, 2006 The ex parte inquest (inquest without the respondents) proceedings held at the House of Representatives (HOR) around 3:30 p.m. today regarding the rebellion charge filed against five party-list representatives was...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 6:50 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Four progressive party-list representatives – Satur Ocampo and Teddy Casiño of Bayan Muna (People First), Rafael Mariano of Anakpawis (Toiling Masses), and Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) who...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Posted 6:45 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Anakpawis Representative Crispin Beltran and his lawyer, Justice Romeo Capulong, walked out of the inquest proceedings for a new charge of rebellion filed against Beltran at the conference room of the Criminal...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 6:00 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Two leaders of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May First Movement) were arrested this morning as they and close to a hundred members of the said labor federation trooped to Camp Crame, the national...
By Bayan International Posted by Bulatlat The present human rights situation in the Philippines worsened as the Arroyo government, beset with a severe economic and political crisis, intensified its repression and use of state terror against the people and the...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Balana’y tahimik sa nayon. Ampiyas ng ulan, nag-alon. Ragasang nanaog, gumulong. Yugto ng wakas, bumangon. Olimpong sambulat, dagundong! Gumuho ang lupa sa bundok, Unahang tumabon. Nasadlak Itong walang muwang, nalito Na ang...
On the 20th anniversary of the EDSA I uprising which booted out the Marcos dictatorship, former Presidents Corazon Aquino and Fidel Ramos and Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile are all expected to be in a celebratory mood though they may not necessarily want to be seen side by...
Although long overdue, a recommendation by a government legal team to revoke the Stock Distribution Option (SDO) scheme is a major step in upholding the legitimacy of the Hacienda Luisita workers' struggle. By John Paul Andaquig and Sweet Mary Cawicaan IBON...
Oil companies have been overpricing the public in the past years, as they took advantage of automatic price hikes allowed under a deregulated regime. In a review of pump prices from 2000 to 2004, Ibon Philippines found that oil products have been overpriced by a...
President Arroyo will not be able to easily ride out this crisis of confidence because she is perceived to be directly responsible for a deeper economic and political crisis besetting the country. By Antonio Tujan Jr. IBON Research Director Posted by Bulatlat IBON...
Ni E. San Juan, Jr. Posted by Bulatlat.com Lumipad ka na patungong Roma at London Balisang nakalingon sa ulap lulan ng naglaboy na panaginip Lubog sa alaala ng kinabukasang unti-unting nalulunod Lumipad ka na patungong Riyadh at Qatar Sa pagkamulat kukurap-kurap sa...
Review of Pakikiramay: Alay ng mga Makata sa mga Magsasaka ng Hacienda Luisita Amado V. Hernandez Resource Center and Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy-Alliance of Concerned Teachers 68 pages What makes Pakikiramay: Alay ng mga Makata...
The United States is facing the prospect of a major defeat in Iraq that is likely to constitute a serious setback in the ongoing campaign to expand the American empire. By the Editors of Monthly Review January 2004 Posted by Bulatlat.com The United States is facing...
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