Photo of the Week: After the Fire
After the Fire
Bulatlat Contributors | Sep 7, 2010
ABS-CBN Sacks Veteran Reporter, 19 Others
ABS-CBN Sacks Veteran Reporter, 19 Others
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.
Cordillera Reds Flatly Reject Localized Talks
Cordillera Reds Flatly Reject Localized Talks
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...
Justice for Benjamin Bayles! Justice for all Victims of Human Rights Violations
Justice for Benjamin Bayles! Justice for all Victims of Human Rights Violations
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...
Indian government rejection of Vedanta bauxite mine a “landmark victory” for Indigenous rights
Indian government rejection of Vedanta bauxite mine a “landmark victory” for Indigenous rights
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...
The Greatest Covert Operation Ever: The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror
The Greatest Covert Operation Ever: The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror
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...
Luis V. Teodoro | Outstanding
Luis V. Teodoro | Outstanding
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...
Slideshow: A Day for Solidarity and Justice
Slideshow: A Day for Solidarity and Justice
'A Day for Solidarity and Justice'
Human Kinetics
Human Kinetics
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...
Video: After Much Delay, Morong 43 Mother and Baby Transferred to PGH
Video: After Much Delay, Morong 43 Mother and Baby Transferred to PGH
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.
Luis V. Teodoro | P.I. Versus P.R.
Luis V. Teodoro | P.I. Versus P.R.
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...
Why Climate Change Denial Has Nothing to Do With Science and Everything to Do With Politics
Why Climate Change Denial Has Nothing to Do With Science and Everything to Do With Politics
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:...
Is the US Pulling the Plug on Iraqi Workers?
Is the US Pulling the Plug on Iraqi Workers?
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...
Economic Growth Remains Unstable, Unable to Create Jobs
Economic Growth Remains Unstable, Unable to Create Jobs
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%...
Aquino’s Reaction To Facebook Criticism Shows “A Disturbing Trend of Intolerance” – Anakbayan
Aquino’s Reaction To Facebook Criticism Shows “A Disturbing Trend of Intolerance” – Anakbayan
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...
KMU Hails Labor Secretary’s Decision on ABS-CBN Workers’ Case
KMU Hails Labor Secretary’s Decision on ABS-CBN Workers’ Case
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...
Baguio Vendors Vow To Block Tearing Down of Public Market
Baguio Vendors Vow To Block Tearing Down of Public Market
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...
Slideshow: Hacienda Luisita Farm Workers Trash ‘Financial Assistance’ by Cojuangco-Aquinos
Slideshow: Hacienda Luisita Farm Workers Trash ‘Financial Assistance’ by Cojuangco-Aquinos
Luisita Farmers Trash 'Financial Assistance'
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