Salungguhit: The Ties That Bind
The Ties That Bind
Bulatlat Contributors | Aug 21, 2010
A Record of War Crimes by the Bush and Obama Administrations
A Record of War Crimes by the Bush and Obama Administrations
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...
This is What Success Looks Like
This is What Success Looks Like
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...
Profits Are Way Up at General Motors … So Why Aren’t They Hiring?
Profits Are Way Up at General Motors … So Why Aren’t They Hiring?
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...
Slideshow: For Land and Justice
Innocence in the Midst of Military Aggression
Innocence in the Midst of Military Aggression
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....
Angelina Jolie Saves ‘Salt’
Angelina Jolie Saves ‘Salt’
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,...
News in Pictures: ABS-CBN Axes 37 More Workers
News in Pictures: ABS-CBN Axes 37 More Workers
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.
Under Aquino III: Promoting Ties of Dependency with the U.S.?
Under Aquino III: Promoting Ties of Dependency with the U.S.?
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...
CenPEG | The Truth Commission: Will Justice Be Served?
CenPEG | The Truth Commission: Will Justice Be Served?
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...
They have taken Benjie Bayles; Stop them from taking Fred Caña
They have taken Benjie Bayles; Stop them from taking Fred Caña
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...
Three Cups of Tea for Imperialism!
Three Cups of Tea for Imperialism!
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...
Time to Declare Global War on Flooding
Time to Declare Global War on Flooding
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...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | The Cojuangco Compromise Agreement
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | The Cojuangco Compromise Agreement
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...
Community Health Workers Hold 10th National Assembly
Community Health Workers Hold 10th National Assembly
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...
LFS Slams $434-Million US Grant to RP, Calls It A Carrot Stick
LFS Slams $434-Million US Grant to RP, Calls It A Carrot Stick
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...
Gabriela Solons: Anti-Women, Anti-Worker PAL Management Should Be Held Accountable
Gabriela Solons: Anti-Women, Anti-Worker PAL Management Should Be Held Accountable
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 | Wrong About the Media
Luis V. Teodoro | Wrong About the Media
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...
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