In 1985 when the Marcos dictatorship was at its most desperate at clinging to power, an anticommunist paramilitary group called Tadtad led by Norberto Manero killed the Italian priest Fr Tullio Favali, PIME, on April 15, 1985. It shattered a belief that in this...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The cold-blooded murder of 59-year-old Italian missionary priest, Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, who was a champion of indigenous people’s rights, an anti-mining campaigner and a human rights defender, jolts us all...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The destruction of the country’s institutions is proceeding apace. But it’s not the “enemies of the state” who’re subverting them; it’s the very institutions themselves, including those mandated to protect the state,...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Eight months have passed since the auspicious resumption by the Aquino government of peace talks with the National Democratic Front that Gloria Arroyo had suspended in 2005. But now the talks are stalled...
By ZAID JILANI ThinkProgress Truthout.org As ThinkProgress has previously noted, the 99 Percent Movement has been set off thanks to long-standing economic inequities and and a recession caused primarily by Wall Street’s misdeeds. Wall Street did not engage in...
A ground-breaking investigation examines the most secret aspect of America's shadowy drone wars and maps out a world of hidden bases dotting the globe. By NICK TURSE AlterNet and TomDispatch They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas...
If there's one thing that American media doesn't need, it's another Fox News. The first one is already doing a stellar job of advancing the GOP agenda. By MARK HOWARD Alternet.org In the fiercely competitive world of cable news, the players have been jockeying for...
Hundreds meet Oakland City Hall, California to join the Occupy Wall Street.
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By Giovanni Tapang, PhD Bulatlat.com With the simultaneous attack of the New People's Army against certain mines in Surigao del Norte, the issue of mining has come to fore in the national dailies and in discussion groups. We have seen video documentaries, news...
BAGUIO CITY -- A porter carries celery leaves to the public market in Northern Benguet, the Philippines vegetable bowl. Prices here remain unstable due to bad road conditions. Photo by Artemio A. Dumlao...
The Christians for National Liberation (CNL), an allied organization of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and composed of revolutionary church people from the Catholic and Protestant churches, is one with all revolutionary and progressive forces in...
Letter to the Editor 14 October 2011 The Philippines has historically endured gross environmental destruction caused by mining plunder: from the recorded 1982 Maricalum mining disaster in Negros Occidental, 1996 Marcopper mine-tailings dam collapse in Marinduque,...
By David Bacon TruthOut News Analysis Last week President Obama broke his campaign commitment and put three free trade agreements up for a vote in Congress. Business interests, ecstatic at the prospect, promise they'll bring us jobs. Experience tells us, however,...
Letter to the Editor 14 October 2011 President Noynoy Aquino’s recent directive to state universities to raise tuition to cover funding gaps is a grave misunderstanding of public higher education. Quality education “at all levels” is a citizen’s right in the 1987...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The New People’s Army’s well-executed raids last Monday on three mining firms in Claver, Surigao del Norte razing a smelting plant, 28 heavy equipment, 132 dump trucks and nine barges, but not physically...
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
“I thank my custodian for showing me the true Filipino spirit for the 64 days that we were together,” Mayor Dano said. “If I’m not mistaken, we transferred from 13 different stations, and there I saw the truthfulness of the group. There I saw the true spirit of camaraderie.”
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com ILOCOS SUR – 386 kilometers north of Manila, the town of Santa, Ilocos Sur boasts of being in the center of the Ilocos Range, Abra River and the China Sea. If one is traveling from Manila to Vigan, there is no shortage of eye candy when...
New People’s Army (NPA) releases Lingig Mayor Henry Dano and four personnel of the BJMP.
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More than 300 workers march to Mendiola to express solidarity with terminated PAL workers.
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