By IGAL SAN ANDRES and PATRICIA LOURDES VIRAY Bulatlat.com Six members of the urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) were arrested after staging a lightning rally in front of the house of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III in Times Street,...
By ROB URIE counterpunch.org One of the joys of being American is that every new day is a clean slate—no history, no memories, no experiences, a complete blank. This may help explain why our national conversations serve their intended purposes while being entirely...
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS counterpunch.org The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed. US government...
AlterNet / By Marshall Auerback May 7, 2012 The Greek and French elections show that the electorate wants real income growth and jobs -- and they are clear that austerity is undermining both. So the voters of Europe have spoken, and surprise, surprise: they are not...
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch Newsletter May 01, 2012 Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star As the 45th Asian Development Bank governors’ annual meeting closes today at the PICC, it’s apt to look back and see how the regional bank, established in 1966 with permanent headquarters in the Philippines,...
BY IGAL JADA SAN ANDRES Bulatlat.com SINDALAN, San Fernando, Pampanga – “I did not know at first that my daughter is special, that she had a problem,” Analisa Pamintuan, a 44-year old mother of three, said. “I was still working back then. I would come home at 6...
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com Main Story: Anti-mining campaign gaining ground in Ilocos In 2006, the then director of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Region 1 Samuel Paragas declared that the mining of black sand in the shores of Ilocos will amount to a $71...
By JOAN GARCIA
Defend Ilocos, a broad network opposed to mining, filed for a Writ of Kalikasan before the Supreme Court to put a stop to magnetite mining in the Ilocos region saying that previous mining operations have already caused massive beach erosion and flooding.
By IGAL JADA SAN ANDRES Bulatlat.com Main...
Groups call Ombudsman to conduct investigation on violent demolitions (Photo by Igal Jada San Andres / Bulatlat.com)
By IGAL JADA SAN ANDRES and PATRICIA LOURDES VIRAY
Urban poor experiences show: “fire is a primary tactic being used by the state” to demolish the urban poor communities.
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last April 18-19, invited by the Patriotiko Mindanao alliance, I joined the culminating activities in Zamboanga City of the 2012 Mindanao-wide anti-Balikatan protest billed as “People’s Caravan and Lakbayan...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld In the 1960s the University of the Philippines’ being supposedly “godless” and its students’ being agnostics if not atheists was common lore among middle-class families thinking of where to send their children to...
By Bien Lumbera Bulatlat.com May dalawang awit si Gloc-9 na matingkad ang nilalam ang kamalayang panlipunan. Una, ang UPUAN, na kumakausap sa mayayaman na may “malaking bahay at malawak na bakuran.” Sila ang nakaupo at namimin tana. Sinasabihan sila na “subukan nyo...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld It is quite easy for the Aquino government to arouse the people’s anger at China bullying in the South China Sea considering what appear to be clear encroachments on Philippine territorial waters and its...
In the interest of presenting a different and progressive perspective, Bulatlat is publishing in full the reply of Prof. Jose Maria Sison of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle on the questions being raised by Renato Reyes of Bayan regarding this contentious issue.
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has once again ranked the Philippines third in its 2012 Impunity Index. The Index ranks countries all over the world on the basis of the level of impunity,...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If the United States, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared this week in an address at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is not provoking conflict with capitalist China, it has an odd way of...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Reacting to my March 24 column piece, titled “Stop privatizing public health services, facilities!” Health Secretary Enrique Ona e-mailed me this note: “I may agree with you in some points, but let me assure...
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