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Dry Spell
Bulatlat Contributors | Mar 28, 2010
A Fulfilled Promise: Lumads Graduate from School Harassed by Military
A Fulfilled Promise: Lumads Graduate from School Harassed by Military
By MARIFE MAGBANUA
Wearing Manobo-designed vestments adorned with colorful bead necklaces and earrings, 24 graduating indigenous youth proudly marched during the third graduation ceremonies of Alcadev. Tears of joy filled the morning of March 10, 2010, as students, parents, teachers and other guests celebrated the end of another school year full of achievements and challenges.
Thirteen Monkayo Farmers Tortured, Detained
Thirteen Monkayo Farmers Tortured, Detained
By GRACE S. UDDIN Davao Today Posted By Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY — Thirteen farmers filed human rights complaints against the 25th Infantry Battalion for illegal detention and torture. They included Alfonso Mangubat and wife Baden; Anastacia Villaniso and her sons...
Fears of a First Time Voter in May’s Automated Elections
Fears of a First Time Voter in May’s Automated Elections
By DAISY C. GONZALES Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY — When farmer Rufina Parojinog, 71, casts her vote on May 10, she would encounter new election gadgets which the poll body, the Commission on Elections, assures us to be easy to use. With her...
Davao Lawyers Oppose Midnight Appointment of Chief Justice
Davao Lawyers Oppose Midnight Appointment of Chief Justice
By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat.com DAVAO CITY – Davao lawyers are restive over the issue of the President’s impending appointment of a new Chief Justice, following a Supreme Court ruling that allows her to do this despite a ban on this action in...
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Collision Course
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Collision Course
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise/Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the most mistrusted president that Filipinos have had to bear with for the last nine years, is set to reap the whirlwind. Facing the end of her disputed term of...
Counterfactual: Marc Thiessen, The Torture Apologist A Curious History of the C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program
Counterfactual: Marc Thiessen, The Torture Apologist A Curious History of the C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program
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...
When Was the Last Time You Visited Iraq? Exporting American Democracy to the World
When Was the Last Time You Visited Iraq? Exporting American Democracy to the World
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...
Only Three out of Ten Job-seeking Graduates May Find Work
Only Three out of Ten Job-seeking Graduates May Find Work
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...
Salungguhit: Party-list or Malacanang’s List?
Salungguhit: Party-list or Malacanang’s List?
Party-list or Malacanang’s List?
Time for Rebirth: The US Antiwar Movement is Grieving, Dreaming, Growing
Time for Rebirth: The US Antiwar Movement is Grieving, Dreaming, Growing
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...
A People’s History of the Great Irish Famine and What it Means for us Today
A People’s History of the Great Irish Famine and What it Means for us Today
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...
Sweatshops Won’t Save Haiti
Sweatshops Won’t Save Haiti
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...
The Shame of Padre Faura
The Shame of Padre Faura
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...
Streetwise| In memoriam: Josie Lichauco (1935-2010)
Streetwise| In memoriam: Josie Lichauco (1935-2010)
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...
Super Pentagon Conflict of Interest: Advisors Rake in Billions
Super Pentagon Conflict of Interest: Advisors Rake in Billions
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....
Greenspan’s Nightmare is much of the World’s Dream
Greenspan’s Nightmare is much of the World’s Dream
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...
The Decline of Israel
The Decline of Israel
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...
Baguio City Wakes Up With “Capricious P184M Land Acquisition Deal”
Baguio City Wakes Up With “Capricious P184M Land Acquisition Deal”
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...
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