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Bulatlat Contributors | Apr 18, 2016
Lee Kuan Yew on Marcos and the politics of the elite
Lee Kuan Yew on Marcos and the politics of the elite
“Only in the Philippines could a leader like Ferdinand Marcos, who pillaged his country for over 20 years, be considered for a national burial. Insignificant amounts of the loot have been recovered, yet his wife and children were allowed to return and engage in...
Whitewashing the Kidapawan massacre
Whitewashing the Kidapawan massacre
Last week’s killing, wounding and illegal arrest of drought-stricken farmers who barricaded the Davao-Cotabato highway to dramatize their demands has brought to national attention the harsh realities in the country’s rural areas. It highlighted the desperate...
Marcos’ long shadow
Marcos’ long shadow
He’s been dead all these years, although the debate over where to finally bury his remains is yet to end. But Ferdinand Marcos, who installed himself as this country’s first, and so far only, fascist, though “constitutional,” dictator in 1972 by placing the entire...
Sison tackles building people’s power in new book
Sison tackles building people’s power in new book
Building People’s Power is mainly a collection of Sison's writings from July 2010 to December 2012. These take up historical and current Philippine issues as well as global issues and show the way to arouse, organize and mobilize the people in the anti-imperialist and democratic struggle.
#BigasHindiBala | Bullet Points
#BigasHindiBala | Bullet Points
Ni TILDE ACUÑA Bulatlat.com 1. Batayang pangangailangan ang bigas sa bayang agrikultural. 2. Kapag natuyo ang sakahan, magkakaroon ng kakulangan sa bigas. 3. Magsasaka ang nagtatanim, ang nagbabayo, ang nagsasaing. 4. Panginoong maylupa at usurero ang labis kung...
U.S.-Philippines ‘special relations’ again? : A pre-election view from Washington DC
U.S.-Philippines ‘special relations’ again? : A pre-election view from Washington DC
To US, "The only former Asian colony of the US, the Philippines is synonymous only with Paquiao the Boxer, Miss Universe, or some terrifying volcano or typhoon such as Yolanda/Haiyan."
Minsan umulan ng bala
Minsan umulan ng bala
Ni VINCE HUGO VILLENA Tinatapyasan ang balat Ng mga butil na balang animo'y Makasalanan ang pagpiling Maligo sa ulan; mabuhay. Makasalanan silang naghahangad Na makakain. Tila isa pa ngang Palaisipan Mangyaring silang tagalikha Ng kanin Sila pang di makalunok ng...
Basi(s) for revolution and art
Basi(s) for revolution and art
The next time someone offers me a glass of basi, I will not refuse.
Tanghalian
Tanghalian
Ni PEACE FLORES Kumakalam na naman ang sikmura ng nagbubungkal ng lupa. Tagtuyot kasi. Walang makakain kapag nalanta ang pananim. Walang laman ang kamalig. Walang maisasaing kahit magtatanghali na. Kaya ang nagbubungkal ng lupa, sumangguni sa pamahalaan. Humingi ng...
Pooled Editorial | Journalists denounce police intimidation and harassment in Kidapawan coverage
Pooled Editorial | Journalists denounce police intimidation and harassment in Kidapawan coverage
AlterMidya, a nationwide network of independent media organizations, denounces police intimidation and attempts to suppress information by preventing journalists from covering the aftermath of the April 1 Kidapawan massacre. The Cotabato police set up a checkpoint...
BigasHindiBala
BigasHindiBala
The violent dispersal by the police of the 6000-strong protest by farmers and lumad (indigenous people of Mindanao) in Kidapawan, North Cotobato last April 1 could be dismissed as just another incident in the long list of clashes between state security forces and...
Joma slams Bongbong Marcos, debunks lies about Plaza Miranda bombing
Joma slams Bongbong Marcos, debunks lies about Plaza Miranda bombing
Ilena Saturay contributed this interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines and current chairperson of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) regarding martial law, the Plaza Miranda bombing and...
Pursue diplomacy, restrain belligerence in sea dispute
Pursue diplomacy, restrain belligerence in sea dispute
Starting Monday the 15th annual US-Philippine joint (Balikatan) military exercises under the 1999 Visiting Forces Agreement will roll out in various sites in the country. Nearly 10,000 American and Filipino soldiers will undergo 10 days of training in warfare. This...
Poe and the false promise of foreign media ownership
Poe and the false promise of foreign media ownership
Only a handful of global media conglomerates -- the Walt Disney Company, News Corporation, AOL Time-Warner, Sony, Bertelsmann, Viacom, among others -- controls the film and music production as well as the information that on a daily basis reach billions of people...
Solidarity and Struggle in ‘Salupongan’
Solidarity and Struggle in ‘Salupongan’
It is certain that 'Salupongan' has summed up the reasons for growing protests against the reactionary state: military presence in schools; 'development' by and for the wealthy ruling class; unabated impunity; and continuing negligence in terms of providing adequate health care, quality education, and other social services to the underprivileged.
Serious Na | Kaninong Pangulo?
Serious Na | Kaninong Pangulo?
Sa pilot episode na ito, tinalakay ni Benjie Oliveros ang campaign donors sa likod ng mga kandidato sa pagkapangulo. #BeyondElections2016
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