By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Watching foreign films can be a breath of fresh air; and Instituto Cervantes’ Spanish Film Festival has a lot of good films. In Fuera de carta (Chef’s Special), this year’s first offering, it’s not only the language or the...
Typhoons hitting the country every year is normal, but floods such as that which hit Central Luzon are not. So what happened and what is the government doing about it? By Flon Faurillo...
Ni RICHARD R. GAPPI Salin sa Ingles ni ARIS REMOLLINO Mansanas, ang alangaang; ang gitna ng sanga at balat ng daigdig. At ang sinumang nais kumagat ay hindi naghihintay ng batak ng halubigat* kundi hatak ng palad. O tipa ng daliring nagliliyab na ang mitsa ng init...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star That political dynasties continue to dominate Congress isn’t hard news anymore. A news report on an Asian Institute of Management Policy Center study showing this has been relegated to the inside, rather than...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld In a remark that has since been condemned not only by the protesting students but also by engaged academics, thinking journalists and even half-asleep politicians, Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte...
by ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY -- Long-standing opposition to mining is turning out into another snag in the peace negotiations between the government of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front. Conceding that the Communist Party of the Philippine...
Prometheus Bound By GIOVANNI TAPANG, PhD Bulatlat.com MANILA -- It came as a surprise to receive a call from my sister in Bulacan last Thursday, since I was the one who was supposed to be sending her a birthday greeting then. She was worried about the floods in the...
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Communist guerillas operating in Ilocos Sur has admitted that two of their comrades were slain by government soldiers in an almost week-long gun battle in Cervantes town, Ilocos Sur a week ago. Benny Boy “Ka Likot” Aguilar...
One midnight in a busy fastfood in Pampanga last year, this guy struck a planking pose, or just slept or passed out, outside a 24-hour open fastfood. Photo by Adrian Albert Sarmiento...
Kin of political prisoners form group, call for unconditional amnesty
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The revolution begins at home: a clarion call to join the Wall Street protests By ARUN GUPTA Alternet.org What is occurring on Wall Street right now is truly remarkable. For over 10 days, in the sanctum of the great cathedral of global capitalism, the dispossessed...
By RAMZY BAROUD Commondreams.org "Both of Ibrahim's arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his legs were missing. His kidney was in a bad condition…we need people to stand with us." These were the words of an exhausted man as he described the...
By KARLOS MANLUPIG
“We require that the SOMO and SOPO allow the necessary, reasonable and flexible scale of time and area for the safe and orderly release of the captives at the initiative of their NPA custodians.” – Luis Jalandoni, NDFP
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld THE “American official” President Benigno Aquino III quoted in his speech at the University of Fordham in New York as complaining that “the problem with the Philippines is that it has 40 million cowards and one SOB...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Wednesday in New York, President Aquino made two statements, both related to the martial law dictatorship that Ferdinand Marcos imposed on our nation 39 years ago that very day and ended with his ouster...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The protracted global economic depression is sending the economies of even advanced capitalist countries such as the United States and members of the European Union on a tailspin. Despite fits of financial...
By KARL G. OMBION
Green activist Rusty Binas remains true to his commitment to restore ecological balance in the City of Smiles.
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY JHUN DANTES, JR.
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In the past two days, I attended two similar but distinct commemorations, at UP Diliman on Tuesday and at Club Filipino yesterday. The events celebrated the 20th anniversary of the historic act by the...
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY JOSEPH PENNEY
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