By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com No stranger to action movies, Jolie once again takes up the role of a mysterious gun-toting vixen in Salt (directed by Phillip Noyce). This time, she plays CIA agent Evelyn Salt. Suspected to be a mole planted by Russian intelligence,...
The ABS-CBN IJM Workers Union and other dismissed workers held a silent protest in front of the network compound on Friday to denounce the illegal dismissals, contractualization and union-busting at ABS-CBN.
By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) Posted by Bulatlat.com Those who are watching the first 100 days of the new administration can now start focusing their lens on President Benigno S. Aquino III’s...
By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) Posted by Bulatlat.com President Aquino III’s move to form a Truth Commission that will investigate Gloria M. Arroyo’s alleged wrongdoings committed in nine years of...
Last June 14, 2010, Benjamin “Benjie” Bayles was killed in Negros Occidental. He was the 1,200th victim of what is seen a military campaign against civic society activists. Yet his case is different. For the first time, the suspects were arrested by the police. A...
By MIICHAEL BARKER CounterPunch Posted by Bulatlat.com The history of tea is a history of imperialism, and so one should be suspicious when someone offers you, not one, but Three Cups of Tea. This bladder bursting offer however is exactly what Greg Mortenson has...
by: The F Word | GRITtv | Video Report Posted by Bulatlat.com The flooding in Pakistan has displaced 2 million people, killed at least 1600 and affected 14 million. It should be affecting all of us. A disaster of global proportions, requiring a global response, as...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com The so-called compromise agreement announced by the management of the Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) comes ahead of an upcoming decision of the Supreme Court on the legality of...
Bulatlat.com Despite the intensifying persecution of health workers in the Philippines- the most prominent and recent victims of which are 43 health workers who are still languishing in prison today- health professionals and volunteer Community Health Workers...
Bulatlat.com "The new $434-M compact grant given to the Philippines by the US government-sponsored Millennium Change Corporation (MCC) is nothing but a carrot stick to further Washington's greater inroads into the Philippine economy under President Aquino," said...
Bulatlat.com Gabriela Women’s Party yesterday threw its support to the 1,600 strong protesting Philippine Airline flight attendants, two-thirds of them are women. “No woman deserves to have her reproductive rights taken away from her by her employer,” Gabriela...
Luis V. Teodoro Posted By: Bulatlat.com I expect our friends in the media, especially in radio and print, as well as the block-timers and those in community newspapers, to monitor their own ranks. May you give life to the basic principle of your vocation: to...
Ni German Villanueva Gervacio Inlilathala ng Bulatlat.com Muli n'yo po kaming basbasan Ka Amado Habang itinutubog Sa kumukulo naming pawis At kandila ang lubid na ito Ang lubid na ito Na yari sa aming mga litid at ugat Ka Amado Ay pambigti sa lumura Sa aming dangal...
By Artemio A. Dumlao By Bulatlat.com Tuba, Benguet–The environment department is blaming a Marcos decree on why townsfolk in at least six towns of La Union are still landless. These residents could only avail of the government’s Handog Titulo (Gift of Title)...
AlterNet / By Dean Baker Posted By Bulatlat.com Economists are still spinning fairy tales so they can celebrate bank bailouts. Too bad everybody's still broke and out of work. August 6, 2010 | It is amazing that angry mobs have not risen up and chased all the...
By Tom Engelhardt Posted by Bulatlat.com Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks as well as the person who has...
Monthly Review zine, July 29 by N Venugopal Posted by Bulatlat.com To suppress the most articulate voice of the Indian revolutionary movement, the state indulged in the brutal assassination of Cherukuri Rajkumar, popularly known as Azad, spokesperson of the...
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