Salungguhit: ‘Pro-Porsche’
Noynoy Is 'Pro-Porsche'
Bulatlat Contributors | Jan 15, 2011
In Oslo, a Chance for Peace Despite the Odds
In Oslo, a Chance for Peace Despite the Odds
By MACEL INGLES
"The challenges are great, but the possibilities for a peace agreement under the new presidency of Benigno Aquino are there,” Ambassador Ture Lundh of Norway’s foreign ministary said. “At the end of the day, however, it is the parties to the conflict that must prove decisiveness, boldness and political will to move forward, to achieve a just and lasting peace.”
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Luis V. Teodoro | Shortchanged
Luis V. Teodoro | Shortchanged
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Since President Benigno Aquino III announced his government’s adoption of a supposedly new counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy, the Philippine military has been all over the media. Its...
Photo of the Week: Not the Children’s Show
Photo of the Week: Not the Children’s Show
Not the Children's Show
Luis V. Teodoro | Same Old, Same Old
Luis V. Teodoro | Same Old, Same Old
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Probably with the approach of the new year in mind, but certainly because of the occasion, President Benigno Aquino III announced during the 75th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Change: Illusions and Real Prospects
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Change: Illusions and Real Prospects
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com The past year seemed to usher marked change with the ending of one of the most despised presidencies since the Marcos dictatorship and the inauguration of one steeped in the rhetoric of...
News in Pictures: RMN-Davao Employees Denounce Anti-Worker Practices of Network Management
News in Pictures: RMN-Davao Employees Denounce Anti-Worker Practices of Network Management
DAVAO CITY -- Members of the Radio Mindanao Network Davao Employees Union (RDEU) protested outside the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) station at the corner of Bonifacio and Anda streets on January 4 to air their grievances against continued workplace repression, citing the network management’s tactics of preventing the upcoming certification election and the possible sacking of another employee who is sympathetic to the union. (Photos courtesy of NUJP-Davao Chapter / bulatlat.com)
Tribal Rights Still Being Violated to Favor Mining Interests
Tribal Rights Still Being Violated to Favor Mining Interests
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The Aquino government continues to implement Arroyo’s National Minerals Policy, said Piya Malayao, spokeswoman of KAMP. “Aquino’s private-public partnerships would further hasten foreign investments on mining at the expense of indigenous peoples,” Malayao added.
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Free All Political Prisoners!
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Free All Political Prisoners!
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Pundits, activists and civil libertarians alike are still speculating on what actually led to last week’s order by President Aquino, auspiciously announced on Human Rights Day, for the...
Luis V. Teodoro | Clear and Present Danger
Luis V. Teodoro | Clear and Present Danger
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com December 17th, 2010 WE CAN all sleep soundly each night in the certainty that the Armed Forces of the Philippines is on guard and watching over us. Regardless of such technicalities as due...
Ilocos Groups Decry ‘Continuing Injustice’
Ilocos Groups Decry ‘Continuing Injustice’
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com CANDON, Ilocos Sur -- It was hot on the morning of December 10 as protesters marched in the streets to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). More than 250 protesters, mostly farmers, came from different provinces...
Ilocos Groups Strengthen Commitment to Fight for Their Rights
Ilocos Groups Strengthen Commitment to Fight for Their Rights
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com CANDON, Ilocos Sur -- The 3rd Regional Assembly of the Ilocos Human Rights Alliance (IHRA-Karapatan) paved the way for the different sectors of the region to unite and strengthen their resolve in fighting for their rights. For the people...
Local Youth Artists Unite for Human Rights
Local Youth Artists Unite for Human Rights
By JOAN GARCIA Bulatlat.com LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte--One would not normally hear the blaring guitars and growling of heavy metal bands coincide with that of the beats of the tongatongand the soft chants of a salidummay. However, on December 11, youth artists from...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Looking Forward: The GRP-NDFP Peace Talks
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Looking Forward: The GRP-NDFP Peace Talks
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Contrary to skeptics’ views, there are objective conditions that auger positively for the upcoming resumption of formal peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines...
Luis V. Teodoro | Two Elections
Luis V. Teodoro | Two Elections
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Elections this November took place in two countries that are geographically far apart, and have practically nothing in common. But the results were in both cases as expected, although due to...
CenPEG | SC Ruling on the Truth Commission: A Dead-end?
CenPEG | SC Ruling on the Truth Commission: A Dead-end?
By taking the slower tack of forming a truth body, the pursuit of accountability with respect to the crimes of graft and corruption linking the previous regime has been entrusted to the constraints and weaknesses of the country’s justice system. By the Policy...
‘It’s Like Shooting Chickens In Abra’
‘It’s Like Shooting Chickens In Abra’
By ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO Bulatlat.com Bangued, Abra (December 10, 2010) – Like shooting chickens or hunting ducks, violence continues to happen in Abra. Regaining its ugly tag as Cordillera’s “Killings Fields”, two more people were killed on Wednesday in Pidigan town,...
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