By SARAH RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com (for Sherlyn Cadapan*) I picture you swiftly running around the track reserved for athletes: sprinting soles spiking tired carabao grass. Like those childhood dragonflies that eluded chasing they say you didn’t want to be bothered...
On August 30, Carina Judilyn Oliveros and her baby, escorted by at least 10 BJMP officers, were finally transferred to the Philippine General Hospital in Manila, where they would detained for three months.
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com The designation of two cabinet secretaries to oversee the communication operations of the Aquino administration seems to be the result of Mr. Aquino’s attempt to accommodate, appease, calm, or...
By GEORGE MONBIOT Alternet International Posted by Bulatlat.com How did the globe's biggest environmental problem because simply an issue of politics? It was Australia’s second climate change election. Climate change deposed the former leaders of both main parties:...
By DAVID BACON Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Early in the morning of July 21, police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra, the poverty-stricken capital of Iraq's oil-rich south. A shamefaced officer told...
Bulatlat.com The 7.9% growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is welcome at least for appearing to be mainly driven by domestic investors, according to research group IBON. Net foreign capital inflows in the first five months of 2010 were earlier reported to be 68%...
Bulatlat.com “Major repression in response to major incompetence” This was the reaction of youth group Anakbayan to moves by the Aquino administration to suppress anti-government criticism in the popular social networking site Facebook. Following the atrocious...
Bulatlat.com Labor center KMU (May First Movement) hailed today Labor secretary Rosalinda Baldoz’s August 13 decision giving a nod to the petition for certification elections filed by ABS-CBN’s contractual workers, calling it a “positive development in the struggle...
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY— Hundreds of affected vendors vow to block another demolition of an area at the public market here after the tearing down of 700 stalls at the public market’s Block 3, Aug. 22. Pablito Gumnad, a vendor, said the development by...
Luisita Farmers Trash 'Financial Assistance'
On the eve of the 27th anniversary of the assassination of Senator Ninoy Aquino last August 20, families and relatives of human-rights violations led by Families of the Disappeared for Justice (Desaparecidos) and Victims of Arroyo United for Justice (Hustisya!), tied a long yellow cloth around the Boy Scout Monument in Quezon City to signify their continuing search and fight for justice.
Bill Van Auken http://www.wsws. org/articles/ 2010/jul2010/ pers-j27. shtml The tens of thousands of documents posted online by WikiLeaks Sunday have provided a detailed and searing indictment of a criminal colonial war that the Obama administration has made its...
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN http://www.counterpunch.org/ Posted by Bulatlat.com The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon announced this week. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing into...
By MICHAEL MOORE Alternet.org Posted by Bulatlat.com "If we want a life worth living for ourselves and our kids, we have to go get it ourselves. We can’t keep waiting for the cavalry to come. That’s because we’re the cavalry." So General Motors is back to making...
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com Among the films presented at the 2nd Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival last August 12, 2010, two films on military aggression stood out. Both have taken the theme into directions intriguing and unexpected....
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