On Wednesday, three progressive Cabinet members -- Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez, Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo, and Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano -- will be up for confirmation by the powerful Commission on...
Ni SONNY SAN JUAN GBU-43/B Inihulog ka ng ika-13 Abril 2017 sa purok Achina,probinsya ng Nangarchar, Afghanistan GBU-43/B alyas Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) 21,600 tonelada 30 talampakan O ina ng mga bomba 11 tonelada ng TNT mahigit isang milya ang saklaw...
Just ten months in office and after announcing that “Change is coming!” the Duterte government appears bound to be lumped up with its predecessor administrations and indicted before the international community for continued human rights violations and worsening...
Farmworkers in the sugar estate are fighting back for justice and genuine agrarian reform.
He’s the commander-in-chief of the “war” on drugs and drops the word “kill” so often some think that’s the limit of his English vocabulary. He’s the last person in these isles of violence one would expect to be a pacifist. But he sounded like one last April 9....
Two aerial views from a military helicopter, hovering above the mountain terrain in Caraga region last Tuesday, remain vivid – and disturbing – in my mind. One is that of a winding river and its tributaries in Agusan del Sur whose waters are oddly thick...
Dr. Dao received exceptional treatment, but passenger abuse is built into the airlines’ business model.
The fourth round of formal peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) got off to a halting start last April 3, a full day after the scheduled formal opening. For a while,...
By RITCHE SALGADO you loved another no tear would fall no wailing heard mem’ries sealed, locked six feet under your face, your voice forgotten, lost pain, rejection thorns, nails, whip, cross sitting, perturbed dazed, paralyzed gloom covered skies dark matter...
In 1987 Corazon Aquino filed a libel complaint against the late columnist Luis Beltran for saying that she hid under her bed during a coup attempt by military goons who thought her soft on communism. She went on to break precedent by testifying against him in...
By JONAS ALPASAN Bulatlat MANILA – The National Democratic Front of the Philippines filed a complaint before the Government of the Republic of the Philippines on the tailing and surveillance on its panel member and consultants in Manila last March 16. In an April 6...
MANILA -- Since March 29 up to now, 36 Lumad families (100-plus individuals) of the Higaonon community from Sitio Camansi, Lagonglong in Misamis Oriental have fled their homes complaining of heavy militarization. Although they said they wanted to be in their...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) says that “only” 1,398 individuals have been killed in the course of the Rodrigo Duterte regime’s “war” on the illegal drug trade out of a total of 6,011 killings in the country from July 1, 2016 when Mr. Duterte began his watch...
There are "beasts" lurking everywhere.
How many sacadas must be exploited in Hacienda Luisita and other sugar plantations in the country to produce sugar made bitter by their sweat and tears?
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