By JOE PENNEY Bulatlat.com Turn on CNN, BBC or any other major Western media outlet and, aside from news about the Norway killer (not labeled as a terrorist because he’s not Muslim), the UK phone hacking scandal and the U.S. debt crisis, few international stories...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld As the State-of-the-Nation Address of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III aka “Pnoy” approaches, we are witness to frenzied attempts by his three-headed communications group to orchestrate the “messaging”...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “In 2006 and 2007, when the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and several other major donors publicly raised their concerns over the politically motivated killings under then-President...
By CHRISTIAN REY BUENDIA Bulatlat.com President Benigno Aquino III’s second State of the Nation Address (Sona) delivered last July 25 may have exceeded 6,000 words, yet his speech was “merely filled with convenient lies and half-truths, useless embellishments and...
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson International League of Peoples' Struggle July 24, 2011 The International League of Peoples' Struggle, condemn with all our strength the mass killing of at least 92 people (including at least 85 youth) and wounding of many...
By CHRISTIAN RAY BUENDIA Bulatlat.com LOS BANOS, Laguna — Decrying the barrage of oil price hikes under the Aquino administration, militant transport group Southern Tagalog Region Transport Organization-Piston (Starter-Piston) and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Timog...
By MARK LOYKA Counterpunch.com Over the past decade, income inequality and poverty in Latin America have been on the decline. These two key socio-economic indicators have historically plagued the region, inhibiting it from prospering. Although most of the countries...
By RAMZY BAROUD Counterpunch.org "When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless." Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions of 'starving and helpless' people throughout the Horn of Africa know fully the pain...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star What will happen next in the Hacienda Luisita land dispute? This is the question tossed to me by various friends, following the strong reactions to the confusing Supreme Court ruling last July 5. Voting 6-4,...
In the Maguindanao massacre case, it is no longer a problem of determining who masterminded and did the killings. The massacre was done so brazenly that there is no longer any need to identify the killers. That is why the sudden offer of Zaldy Ampatuan to turn...
Pres. Benigno Aquino III's straight yellow path has not made any impact on the lives of the poor such as the beggar in the photo. Photo by Anto Balleta (Bulatlat.com)
By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Travel back in time when Tagalog films were almost always great and make it a three-decade trip via Mula sa mga aninong gumagalaw: behind the scenes 1971-2001 by noted University of the Philippines Fine Arts...
By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com At last year’s Cinemalaya Film Festival, the First Quarter Storm drama Sigwa directed by Joel Lamangan and written by Bonifacio Ilagan was one of the featured full-length films. This year, two progressive documentary films...
By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ Project Syndicate | Op-Ed Just a few years ago, a powerful ideology – the belief in free and unfettered markets – brought the world to the brink of ruin. Even in its hey-day, from the early 1980’s until 2007, American-style deregulated...
By BENJAMIN DANGL Toward Freedom | Film Review Reviewed: "Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action" A Documentary Film by Sílvia Leindecker and Michael Fox. Published by PM Press/Estreito Meios Productions When the worst financial crisis since the...
Obama should be held accountable for vastly expanding the military establishment's worldwide license to kill. By FRED BRANFMAN Alternet Although President's Obama's partial Afghan troop withdrawal announcement has received more attention, his June 29 "National...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BACACAY, Albay -- The main road from Cagraray Island port to the village of Cabasan in this town was beautifully lined with mats, the leaves still green, some with neon strips of yellow, pink and green. Like the Central Luzon highways...
Karl G. Ombion The Essentials Sunstar In this column I divert from my usual subjects on renewal energy, science and technology, and national development, because I am quite disturbed by the continuing state political persecution of the leaders, organizers, mass...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld BENIGNO AQUINO III has an approval rating of between 68 and 70 percent, most probably because he hasn’t done anything scandalous or controversial. That says something about how low Filipinos’ expectations of their...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star We began this column in August last year with two pieces that dwelt on the historical background of the protracted land dispute in Hacienda Luisita Inc. and the oral arguments before the Supreme Court over...
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