By BILL QUIGLEY T r u t h o u t International Posted by Bulatlat.com You can walk down many of the streets of Port-au-Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti. Twenty-three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed...
By MARK DANNER CommonDreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com Haiti is everybody's cherished tragedy. Long before the great earthquake struck the country like a vengeful god, the outside world, and Americans especially, described, defined, marked Haiti most...
Ni RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Doon po sa amin na malayong nayon, Isang Girilyero ang bubulong-bulong; Na siya daw noon lumaban sa Hapon At ang armas niya’y isang kabo-kanyon. Maraming bakbakan kanyang nilinggatong At dumagsa pa daw ang mga ataul Na...
By RITCHE T. SALGADO
A group of sugar workers in Negros island was shocked to learn that the price of sugar in some parts of the country has reached a high of P60 per kilo amid news of an apparent crisis on the supply of the commodity.
By LYN RAMO Bulatlat.com TANAY, Rizal -- As expected on a Monday, little Dumagat schoolchildren hurriedly prepared and left their homes to grab a better seat in school. They did not head for the Nayon Elementary School, though, because “the teacher is not yet...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of Manila) – While the Regional Development Council (RDC) head denies having seen a lot of money in circulation now that it is election year, the private-sector representative in the think-tank says otherwise....
By TOM ENGELHARDT Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Back in 2007, when General David Petraeus was the surge commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, he had a penchant for clock imagery. In an interview in April of that year, he typically said: “I'm conscious...
By NIKO KYRIAKOU Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com For makers of the swine flu vaccine, 2009 was a year to remember. By June, CSL Limited's profits rose 63 percent above 2008 levels, while in the third quarter of 2009 - just about the time H1N1...
By WILLIAM RIVERS PITT Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Seems I've got to have a change of scene 'Cause every night I have the strangest dream Imprisoned by the way it could've been Left here on my own So it seems I've got to leave before I start to...
After three SIM cards, two modems, and countless earlier attempts, a Smartmatic technician tries to get a satellite signal after failing to transmit test results. When he did get a signal, he tells person on the phone: "Pare,di ko naman pwedeng hawakan ito nang ganito hanggang mamaya." He gets help though from a cameraman who lends him a tripod. This is just one of the scenes in Friday's Comelec Smartmatic field test in Agojo Elementary School in Pateros for the machines that are to be used in the elections in May. Photo by Renayes Reyes Jr.
By KARLOS MANLUPIG Regional Spokesperson League of Filipino Students-Southern Mindanao Posted by Bulatlat.com One would visualize a butcher as a person covered with blood after meticulously chopping and carving an animal in a slaughterhouse. For a man to be labeled...
By NAT HENTOFF villagevoice.com International Posted by Bulatlat.com Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties...
By NORMAN SOLOMON Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com In his triumphant speech on election night, the next senator from Massachusetts should have thanked top Democrats in Washington for all they did to make his victory possible. For a year now, leading...
By JEFFREY KAYE Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Two reports coming out of Afghanistan illustrate the depth of hypocrisy and subterfuge characterizing the US/NATO intervention in that country. One could cite a myriad of such examples, so immoral and...
By RITCHE T. SALGADO
Farmers and fisherfolk groups in Negros Occidental have been holding protests outside the capitol to denounce the mounting harassments experienced by Negrense farmers and farm workers. They also denounce a series of moves by landlords to file common and trivial offenses against peasants who demand land reform.
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