By MARC LINO ABILA Bulatlat Going to churches have always been part of my go-to list when visiting a place. Raised by devout Catholic grandparents, I have this particular fascination with religious history and church architecture. When it comes to old buildings,...
Malaki ang hamon para sa makabayan at progresibong artista, manunulat, aktibista at manggagawang pangkultura sa matalinong paggamit sa internet at social media bilang daluyan ng bagong kulturang pambansa, siyentipiko at makamasa.
The Duterte administration could succeed where others have failed in ending the longest-running guerilla war in Asia. But it has launched another war whose outcome is likely to be even more uncertain unless the problem it wants to address is also recognized as a...
An atmosphere of euphoria, enhanced amity, and an improving level of mutual trust between the negotiating panels was so evident at the resumption of formal peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front, held recently in Oslo, Norway....
Today, citizens of the United States directly bear the burden of more than 150 years of warfare.
'For the military-industrial complex and its beneficiaries, perpetual war is not necessarily bad news.'
Some 200 students stormed the UP Board of Regents meeting in a protest Aug. 25.
Ni ED ROMANO LABAO Maging ang 'yong bangkay ay hindi kayang uurin sa taglay mong lason ng kahapon bangungot ka ng kasaysayan may latak na pamanang iniwan senyales na sumasamba ang bagong sugo Anumang panaghoy ng mga inulila manhid ang giit ng katwiran Mangamba ang...
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com Lahat ng rehimeng nagdaan ay nagtangkang buwagin at talunin ang New People’s Army (Bagong Hukbong Bayan). Lahat ay nagsabing sila’y magtatagumpay. Lahat sila’y nabigo. Ano ang nasa likod ng misteryong lakas ng NPA?...
Ni GLEN SALES Ngayong malapit nang ilibing ang Iyong katawan sa Libingan ng mga Bayani. Ngayong nagpapalakpakan, naghahalakhakan Ang iyong mga tagasuporta sa kanilang tagumpay. Alalahanin ang mga Ama at Inang nawalan ng Anak. Alalahanin ang mga anak na nawalan ng...
Thus the system is indeed rigged – against efforts to democratize it, and otherwise change it for the better.
The Duterte administration’s campaign against the illegal drug trade and drug abuse apparently assumes that the government can purge the country of its drug problem by killing small-time suspected drug pushers and even users. President Rodrigo Duterte himself after...
Last Tuesday presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella was quoted as telling reporters how President Duterte felt about the drug-related killings, both by the police and vigilantes, under his watch: “I think he’s very concerned and, in fact, bothered and troubled....
“We don’t want to have a country where we are forced to live with fear…There is no justifiable reason for any forms of killings—may it be drug-related or political. We urge the president, let us end this.”
And so it has come to this. After stoking such high expectations about the resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and what the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) considers the top "security threat" in the...
With only a few exceptions, the corporate media are failing to provide the citizenry the information it needs to understand what’s going on as the five-week-old Duterte administration pursues an aggressive agenda of governance. While supposedly focused on bringing...
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