By Andrew Simms International Commondreams.org Posted by Bulatlat.com Putting a price on nature becomes meaningless if we treat the ecosystems upon which we depend as mere commodities with a price for trading The economy is no stranger to creating its own fantasy...
By BULL QUIGLEY International Truthout Posted by Bulatlat.com The United Nations reported there are 1.2 million people living in "spontaneous settlements" or homeless camps around Port-au-Prince. Three people living in the camps spoke with this author this week,...
Media Release February 19, 2010 Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno and Anakpawis Partylist branded as “insulting to workers” the three regional wage boards’ claim that they are studying the possibility of raising wages in their respective regions. Wage boards in...
By RENATO REYES JR.
We call on our friends here and abroad to intensify the calls for the release of the 43. We hope that the CA will issue a favorable ruling so that in the near future, the 43 will regain their freedom, be reunited with their families and continue with their work.
By WILLIAM FISHER Inter Press Service/Common Dreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com NEW YORK - Civil liberties advocates and legal authorities struck back Friday at what they describe as the "deliberate targeted killing of U.S. citizens far away from any...
By ILPS CANADA International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Indian government threatens to eradicate popular resistance by March 2010 In late 2009 the Indian government unleashed massive war against its own people under the code name "Operation Green Hunt" involving the...
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...
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