By TOM ENGELHARDT TomDispatch International Posted by Bulatlat.com The fall issue of Foreign Policy magazine features Fred Kaplan’s “The Transformer,” an article-cum-interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. It received a flurry of attention because Gates...
By RICK WOLFF Truthout / MR Zine International Posted by Bulatlat.com The basic issue is the same there and here. Capitalism generates another of its regular, periodic crises, only this one is really bad. It begins, as often happens, in the financial sector where...
Mula sa IBON FOUNDATION (Alay kina Alex at Ka Roda) Kung papaano kayo umanib Sa sanlaksang kandilang nagsaboy-liwanag, Kung papaano kayo nakiguhit Ng pagbabago na pluma ng taumbayan ang gamit, Kung papaano kayo naghinagpis nang tahimik Habang kung di nakangiti't...
By IBON Foundation 8 September 2010 Pinasulat kita ng magasing pambata pasimplehin mo lang 'kako nang malaman nila ang ating rebolusyon, gawin mong dahan-dahan hakbang-hakbang, baytang-baytang nang matutunan nilang marating ang kasaysayan. Subalit pinili mong...
By JOAN GARCIA
Due to landlessness and intrusions of both foreign and local commercial fishing vessels in the region, children are forced to work for their family’s survival. CRC-Ilocos also documented that children are most affected from the aerial bombardment of the 41st and 50th IBPA, which is part of the military’s counter-insurgency campaign.
Ni SINING GALIAN mangungulila ang mapanlabang panulat sa iyong pagpanaw; ngunit kailanman, hindi papanaw ang iyong panulat upang ipaglaban ang pangungulila ng sambayanang pinaglingkuran mo sa iyong pagkilos para sa kalayaan, hustiyang panlipunan at bagong...
Ni LHON PANKS Natanggap ko ang masamang balita, Nanlamig ang buo kong katawan at Saglit ay natulala; Huminto ang oras ng Sandali at napako ang tingin. Mariin ang pagkakatitig sa tasa ng kape, Tila bang hinihintay ang dagli nitong paglamig. Malamig ang gabi......
Ni FELIPE UNLAYAO Binigyan mo ng teynga ang tulog na lupa Sinuutan ng pakpak ang balisang balita binigyan ng tapang mga diwang timawa. Ginuguhit ng iyong pinsil ng landas na dakila plumang may talim na may bugang adhika gumigising sa layong nahimbing sa panata...
By RICKY A.M. SANTOS A bunch of coconuts crashes To the earth below With each deft tug Of a picker’s arm On his bamboo pole. A shout away, A cart of coconuts Tumble out, Without disturbing the Focused gaze Of a brown-skinned farmer Clutching a nut Over a blade...
Ni RAUL FUNILAS Unang nakilala doon sa Maynila nang minsang magbuklod, Yaong magsasakang ang kubling prinsipyo’y sinagkaang lubos. Siya ang lalaking kay-tagal hinanap sa magulong lungsod— Mabikas ang tindig, may singkiting mata’t may Sakay na buhok. Laging...
The firing of reporter Wheng Hidalgo and other personnel, all from ABS-CBN’s Technical Operations Department, brought to 110 the number of workers from the network’s Internal Job Market dismissed since June 16.
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY– Communist rebels in the highland Cordillera region flatly rejected calls by the military for localized peace talks insisting “it is unnecessary” because there is a national level negotiation. Also brushing aside as “just...
Dear Mr President: Greetings of Peace based on Justice from Bago City, Negros Occidental. In the outset allow me to qoute the verse: But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! -Amos 5:24 (NIV). This is the passage from the...
Amnesty International Posted By: Bulatlat.com Amnesty International today described the Indian government’s decision to reject the bauxite mine project in Orissa’s Niyamgiri Hills as a landmark victory for the human rights of Indigenous communities. India’s...
Douglas Valentine Global Research www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20830 Posted by Bulatlat.com The politics of terror are the greatest covert operation ever. In explaining why, I’ll begin by defining some terms, because, when discussing the covert op...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com OUTSTANDING in its incompetence was the police response to the hostage-taking by a former police officer of the busload of Hong Kong tourists last Monday. Despite the cocky assurances of police...
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