By JANE MAYER CommonDreams.org/The New Yorker International Posted by Bulatlat.com On September 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of Al Qaeda's attacks on America, another devastating terrorist plot was meant to unfold. Radical Islamists had set in motion a...
by TOM ENGELHARDT TomDispatch.com International Posted by Bulatlat.com Recently, I wrote about a crew of pundits and warrior-journalists eager not to see the U.S. military leave Iraq. That piece appeared on the op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times (and in a longer...
By IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat.com As new graduates enter the labor force, it is possible that only three out of ten college graduates looking for work may land a job. According to research group IBON Foundation, this estimate does not even include graduates...
Party-list or Malacanang’s List?
by CLARE BAYARD and SARAH LAZARE Commondreams International Posted by Bulatlat.com Think back seven years ago to this day. Where were you on March 19th, 2003, when the invasion began? Did you see “Shock and Awe” footage of the orange explosions in the clear Baghdad...
By Grant Lawrence Alternet International Posted by Bulatlat.com Weary men, what reap ye? Golden corn for the stranger. What sow ye? Human corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, Hunger—stricken, what see you in the offing. Stately ships to bear our food...
By Tope Folarin Commondreams International Posted by Bulatlat.com The United Nations will host a Haiti donors' conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year's event, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worst...
By ATTY. MARIE YUVENCO Bulatlat.com It isn’t true that the course of our history is charted within that building along the polluted banks of the Pasig river. Malacañang may point the direction towards which the ship of state is headed, but the captain cannot pull...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise Posted by Bulatlat.com Former Department of Transportation and Communications Secretary Josefina “ Josie” Trinidad- Lichauco was a staunch ally of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and a dear friend to many of us who had the...
The same people who sell the Pentagon billions of dollars in technology are advising the Pentagon on what scientific and technical matters to focus on in the years to come. | By NICK TURSE AlterNet International Posted by Bulatlat.com On January 5, 2010 the U.S....
By MARK WEISBROT Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Alan Greenspan had a dream, or rather a nightmare. Greenspan seems to have woken up in a cold sweat one morning in fear that the period of "disinflationary pressures" that had kept inflation low since...
Middle East Online International Posted by Bulatlat.com New Left Project In a wide-ranging interview with the New Left Project, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook describes the increasingly repressive nature of Israeli society and the prospects for a solution...
By ACE ALEGRE Regions Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY - Baguio City is again roused from sleep with another multi-million peso “questionable deal”. This time by the Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) for purchasing a P184 million-worth ($4,031,639) 1.2...
By TED GLICK Truthout International Posted By Bulatlat.com "Political leadership is a matter of program, strategy and tactics, and not the color of those who lead it, their oneness of origin with their people, nor the services they have rendered." - CLR James, The...
By JOE CONASON Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com If the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti carry any message for those of us fortunate enough not to live in those places, perhaps it is that government regulation could save your life -- while right-wing...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise Posted by Bulatlat.com Was Edsa I a failure? Ferdinand Marcos Jr., heir to the Dictator Marcos’ ill-gotten wealth and discredited political legacy, says so. According to him, there has been no change: poverty only worsened,...
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