(Mariveles, Bataan) The history of Bataan betrays its tranquility as the province is witness to the most greusome crimes of past and present - the Death March in 1942 which killed thousands of guerillas fighting the Japanese Occupation forces during World War II...
By DL MONDELO
Revolutionary Joma Sison answers questions about his rumored homecoming and the Aquino govt’s distractions while promised reforms crawl or turn comatose.
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Yesterday the younger of our two grandsons turned three. Weeks before he had been talking about his approaching birthday, excitement gleaming in his big expressive eyes. But more than that, he had been...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The US-based, 30-year-old organization Human Rights Watch -- the Asia Division of which, incidentally, former New York Times and International Herald Tribune freelance correspondent Carlos Conde is now the Philippine...
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today KIDAPAWAN CITY -- About 600 farmers belonging to the Arakan Progressive Peasant Organization (APPO) and church people trooped to the municipal gym, January 20, to meet head on the commanding officer and spokesman of the 57th...
BAGUIO CITY -- How stone walling like the 2000-year old Ifugao Rice Terraces is carefully and intricately made with bare hands and pure indigenous technology, bare-handed young and old Igorots scale a 6 meter high hillside to cascade mountain stones to prevent...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Despite the difficulties posed to unions and workers’ organizations by the intensifying repression and contractualization, the total number of labor disputes recorded and “handled” by the labor department itself has continued to increase in 2011.
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Twenty-five years constitute a long time and reaching it is usually deemed a milestone in the life of a person or a nation. Tomorrow marks the 25th year of the Mendiola massacre, but you wonder what it’s a...
By BILL FLETCHER, JR.
Is the so-called “special relations” with the US beneficial to the Philippines? Is the Left a spent force? What are the prospects for real change? In an interview, Professor Jose Maria Sison tackles these questions and more.
With the way speculators and giant oil companies have been playing with oil prices, one could not help but be incensed. Why would oil prices rise when there has been no supply shock nor an increase in costs of producing oil? The sharp increases in pump prices have...
Putragis Amang, kami’y namamalimos lamang ng kapirasong lupa, bakit pinaputok ang kanilang sandata? Hayup nga ba kaming hayup sa turing? Bakit kaming gutom bala ang pinakain? Putragis Amang, ang Palasyo pala ay hindi dulugan ng awa; ang Kongreso pala’y Kongreso ng...
By Giovanni Tapang, PhD The ongoing impeachment trial at the Senate for the removal of Chief Justice Renato Corona is slowly becoming an early afternoon telenovela. Complete with courtroom drama and a cast of judges, accused and prosecutors, it transports listeners...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA 1) isn’t the worst in the world, it should certainly rank among the worst. On any given day, it looks more like a street during market day at Divisoria district than...
TamilNeT “The Eezham people have a very direct obligation of fighting for their own sovereignty against a state that presumes to have a unitary power over them,” stressed veteran Filipino left ideologue, Prof. Jose Maria Sison. In an exclusive interview to TamilNet...
By JOHN RIZLE SALIGUMBA
Small-scale miners grapple with the impact of landslides and the government’s demolition order.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
A month after Typhoon Sendong swept away homes, killed thousands and dislocated tens of thousands in Northern Mindanao, survivors plea for decent relocation.
By ALLYN V. BALDEMOR Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Online social networks mobilized hours after Noemi Lagman, 21, was reported to have been missing January 6, 2010. The student of Asia Pacific College Magallanes left her house in Multinational Village in Paranaque between...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star On Monday, January 16, the Senate will begin the impeachment trial on the eight charges filed against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona by 188 members of the House of Representatives. The charges aim...
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