Ni E. SAN JUAN JR. Bulatlat.com Mahal, Nagliliyab ang lansangan ng Islang Puting Bato nang ikaw’y lumisan Sa iyong balintataw nagtalik ang liwanag at dilim Nagtipan ang luha’t ngiti sa hanggahan ng pangako’t alaala Saang likong landas tayo naghiwalay,...
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By JOE PENNEY english.al-akhbar.com Dakar/Bamako - At the Bamako bus station, tales of trepidation from besieged northern towns like Gao and Timbuktu, where Tuareg and Islamist rebels have taken power following a coup d’état in Bamako in late March, are...
The current oppressive regime, now presided over by Mr. Benigno Aquino III, escalates its senseless, bloody counterinsurgency campaigns in a futile attempt to suppress the people's protest.
Ni Richard R. Gappi Bulatlat.com Pinatay ang kanyang tatay. Pinatay ang kanyang nanay. At tulad ng batang makulit na kinikilala ang daigdig, nagtanong siya kung bakit. Nang matutuhan at matanto niya ang mga sagot, sinagot siya ng ganito: bakit ka nagtatanong? Kaya...
Gawin na lang nila ang gusto nilang gawin sa akin tulad ng kanilang ginawa sa aking mga magulang. Hinding-hindi ako titigil sa paghahanap ng hustisya para sa aking pamilya at buong sambayanan.” – Arman Albarillo (1978 - 2012), human rights victim; New People’s Army...
The middle class is being hollowed out; increasingly, there are the super-super-rich, and there are the rest of us.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Posted by Bulatlat.com
Gabriela hopes to “mobilize the public to use the internet in solving one of the scourges of electronic harassment, bullying and violence against women.”
By NAN LEVINSON, TomDispatch | News Analysis Truthout "PTSD is going to color everything you write," came the warning from a stepmother of a Marine, a woman who keeps track of such things. That was in 2005, when post-traumatic stress disorder, a.k.a. PTSD, wasn't...
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today DAVAO CITY — The phrase “breast milk is still best for babies” has become a byword in commercials and labels on infant formula milk thanks to the Milk Code which mandates this marking on the packaging of formula milk. The Milk Code,...
By SONNY AFRICA
The administration is hard-pressed to provide similar glowing accounts of sustainable development on the ground because there are still no such gains to speak of.
In the Philippines, there is still no successful prosecution of security forces for killings, ‘disappearances,’ despite Aquino's campaign and inauguration promises for accountability.
Stories from CCT communities give us a picture that is different from how government describes the positive impact of its anti-poverty program.
By ISABELLE DE GRAVE, Inter Press Service Truthout United Nations -- U.S. counterterrorism measures are under intense scrutiny from United Nations (U.N.) experts and civil rights groups declaring drone strikes illegal under current frameworks. During the 20th...
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN CounterPunch The predictable word is in from Rio: failure. The conference twenty years on from the huge Earth Summit, Rio 92, has been unable to produce even the pretense of an energetic verbal commitment of the world’s community to...
The proposed ‘Road to Rio’ still looks at nature, people and their products as capital that must be used in the most efficient manner for profit accumulation By ROSARIO BELLA GUZMAN IBON Features / Bulatlat.com IBON Features — Hundreds of heads of states are...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld President Benigno Aquino III came to power in June 2010 with “special relations” – the Philippines serving as a neocolony of the US – already entrenched 64 years after the “grant” of independence. Before him,...
By CAREY L. BIRON, Inter Press Service | Report Truthout June 17, 2012 The United States is set to far surpass previous records for defence sales this year, according to U.S. officials. "Despite the global economic strain, demand for U.S. defence products and...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Four years ago last June 6, the Cheaper Medicines Law (Republic Act 9502, the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008) passed after contentious debates in the 14th Congress, was...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld With the usual irony was June 12 marked this year in a country hardly aware of its history. Benigno Aquino III spoke at Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan, where the First Philippine Republic was inaugurated on...
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