By ROBIN BROAD and JOHN CAVANAGH Commondreams.org Shift your gaze for a moment from the lurid headlines of police shutting down Occupy sites in Oakland, New York and other cities to the scene on a sunny day in early November here in Washington, D.C. In front of the...
By MARK WEISBROT Counterpunch.org Imagine that an opposition organizer were murdered in broad daylight in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador or Venezuela by masked gunmen, or kidnapped and murdered by armed guards of a well-known supporter of the government. It would be...
Ni Sonny Mallari Bulatlat.com I Bakit ba nagpapakodak pa ang tao samantalang hindi na niya ito makikita kapag nawala na siya sa mundo? Para sa alaala ng daigdig na dati niyang isinusuka sa kalupitan at kawalang katarungan. “Requiéscant in pace”. II Bakit patuloy...
Ni MARK ANGELES Limampu’t walo silang sumakay sa ataul. Limampu’t walo silang sumakay sa ataul tungong Shariff Aguak. Limampu’t walo silang sumakay sa ataul tungong Shariff Aguak. ang di na nakarating. Sa bangin natagpuan. Sa bangin natagpuan ang kanilang mga...
One of the most visible child labor scenes are found in markets including this one in Baguio City. This cheerful boy at least has a cart for pretending he's playing a game. Photo by Jo A. Santos...
By DANNY SCHECHTER Commondreams.org It was strange, after all these weeks, to be on the outside looking in at a new set of occupiers that were there because they have the guns and we don’t. When Mao said that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” he most...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Like many others, I welcomed Justice Secretary Leila de Lima’s action on Gloria M. Arroyo’s request to be allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment, and appreciated her reasons for denying it. But I feel...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld When the Ampatuan Town Massacre of Nov. 23, 2009, occurred and its brutal details were known, it provoked attempts at self-examination among many media advocacy and journalists’ groups, and even in some of the...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The overriding and unstated premise in the controversy over the “constitutional crisis” provoked by the Supreme Court order allowing former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former First Gentleman Miguel...
By LYN V. RAMO BAGUIO CITY -- The book on medicinal plants and herbs in the Cordillera, which the late botanist Leonard Co wrote in the '70s was re-launched on his first death anniversary in this city. A tree-planting and exhibits of Leonard Co's works were also...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld There is a world of difference between the “occupation” of Wall Street and many other cities not only in the US but all over the world by unarmed protestors, and the occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya by...
Communities, people's organizations, NGOs, environmental advocacy groups, the major church denominations, including the Catholic Church, and even the NPA are up in arms against big mining firms, but President Benigno Aquino III keeps on assuring big mining...
They read, they chat, they contemplate; they wear hats, hang out together yet mull over just their own thoughts... having lived for five to six decades must have its own perks. Photo by Jo A. Santos...
By JUAN COLE TomDispatch From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal state that has dominated the world ever since the Cold War ended. The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have...
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY (November 11, 2011) -- The government is moving to exempt corporate mining from total log ban policy, Leo Jasareno, director of Mines and Geosciences, said in a discussion about Philippine mining at the Minerals Industry...
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY-- Rehabilitating the Ambuklao Dam in Bokod, Benguet will not mitigate the effects of climate change, contrary to what the SN Power Aboitiz is saying, the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) here said in a statement....
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This week in Cannes, France, the Group of 20 biggest economies or G-20 - representing 85 percent of the world’s economy, 80 percent of trade, and two-thirds of population — holds its sixth summit meeting...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The Philippines has a former advertising executive for tourism secretary in Ramon Jimenez. In his TV and other media appearances, Jimenez exudes confidence from every pore as he carries on in his American-accented...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld President Benigno Aquino’s “all-out justice” slogan, coined by his tourism secretary (an advertising man before joining government), seems to be catching on. As a tagline, it aims to capture the administration’s...
A daily sight in Bontoc-Banaue Road-- trucks of all sizes roll up and down the road groaning under the weight of their cargo. Photo by Noel D. Godinez (Bulatlat.com)
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