Massive leak reveals serial detainee abuse • 15,000 unknown civilian deaths in war by Nick Davies, Jonathan Steele and David Leigh Common Dreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a...
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Posted by Bulatlat.com WASHINGTON - October 21 - A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research examines whether policies prescribed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may pose a danger to economic...
Joan Garcia Bulatlat.com VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur-As the storm surge caused by typhoon Juan continues to affect the coastal areas of the province, the livelihood of residents of at least nine barangays in Santa and Candon remains in peril. Last October 20, Ernesto...
Thousands of farmers from various provinces in Southern Mindanao held a protest-march dubbed “Martsa alang sa Yuta ug Hustisya!” (March for Land and Justice!) at Rizal Park, Davao City on October 22. Led by the Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas-Southern Mindanao Region, farmers threw eggs with red paint at a poster bearing President Benigno Aquino III's face, calling him a total failure for not having the heart nor the political intent and morality to uplift the plight of hapless farmers in the region.
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com The Philippine ranking fell from 122nd in 2009 to 156th in the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres’ (RSF -- Reporters Without Borders) 2010 Press Freedom Index released on October 20. The...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com The debate on whether President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s amnesty proclamation for soldiers who had rebelled against the government of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is justified begs for...
Some 23 families were evacuated from their homes at City Camp Lagoon Monday morning, as floodwaters begin to rise at the city's lowest part. Evacuees, numbering to at least 100 individuals, are staying in Aguinaldo Elementary School in Barangay QM. However, some residents in Little Kibungan in La Trinidad, Benguet, refuse to leave their homes, despite being declared as a hazardous area by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the DENR.
HE Benigno C Aquino III President, Republic of the Philippines Malacañang Palace JP Laurel Street, San Miguel Manila Philippines By email 17 October 2010 Dear President Aquino, The 43 Health Workers Known as the ‘Morong 43’ I am writing to you as chair of the...
Farmers from Negros, Southern Tagalog, Tungkong Mangga and Hacienda Luisita protested in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Quezon City on Saturday, and blamed the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPer) for causing massive landlessness, poverty and hunger, marking what they dubbed as World “Foodless” Day.
By MARK WEISBROT Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil - In Brazil, as in the United States, most people do not vote for a president on the basis of foreign policy issues. Yet sometimes the result matters for the rest of the world...
By IRA CHERNUS Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com It's a rather ordinary, run-of-the-mill piece of Israeli government propaganda - an op-ed in The New York Times, October 14, by Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. Precisely because it...
by John Pilger Truth-Out.org Posted by Bulatlat.com The rescue of 33 miners in Chile is an extraordinary drama filled with pathos and heroism. It is also a media windfall for the Chilean government, whose every beneficence is recorded by a forest of cameras. One...
Ni RICHARD GAPPI Bulatlat.com Alkansaya ka kung saan isinusuksok Mga larawan ng ligaya at lungkot Habang may awit nang tila nabubulok Halimuyak sa akin kung diwa’y lugmok. Dahil anino kang kambal at kasalo Kung kaya ako ngayo’y nagiging tao Itim sa puti’y tingkad...
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By GLENN GREENWALD Salon.com/Common Dreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com In 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld commissioned a task force to study what causes Terrorism, and it concluded that "Muslims do not 'hate our freedom,' but rather, they hate...
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas-Southern Mindanao (KMP-SMR), together with other peasant groups in the region, slam President Benigno Aquino III and his administration for its anti-farmer and anti-lumad policies, and for being a US puppet. KMP-SMR will hold a 3-day protest action, starting october 21, in line with the celebration of Peasant Month.
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com President Benigno Aquino III’s handling of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) report on the August hostage-taking fiasco exposes his administration’s lack of...
The bitter plight of Filipino farmers continues past the Aquino administration’s first 100 days and into October which the peasant movement marks as Peasant Month. By IBON Features | IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat.com The First 100 Days Report of Pres. Benigno...
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