Photo of the Week: Bayugan’s Fervent Children
Bayugan's Fervent Children
Photo of the Week: Bayugan’s Fervent Children
News in Pictures: Black Mark
News in Pictures: Black Mark
A black ribbon placed by a reporter hangs from the last two digits of the street number at the gate of the Department of Foreign Affairs, symbolizing the number of media workers slain in the November 23 Ampatuan massacre in Maguindanao massacre (actually 31 media...
News in Pictures: Jeepney Drivers and Operators Oppose Series of Oil Price Hikes
News in Pictures: Jeepney Drivers and Operators Oppose Series of Oil Price Hikes
Members of the Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (PISTON) renewed their call to the Big Three oil companies to stop oil price hikes during a noise barrage held in Cubao, Quezon City on Thursday. According to George San Mateo, PISTON...
News in Pictures: We are Farmers!
News in Pictures: We are Farmers!
A farmer and his sons said they were picked up by members of the 69th Infantry Battalion in sitio Salagunting, Barangay Fatima in Paquibato, where a landmine recently exploded on November 23, wounding four soldiers. Mateo Molato, father, 57, (center) and his sons...
Children Afraid of the Night
Children Afraid of the Night
By VIJAY PRASHAD CounterPunch International More US troops are being prepared for Afghanistan. The President charged them with (1) defeating or degrading the Taliban; (2) building the Afghan National Army. We have thrown in our lot with Hamid Karzai's government....
Strategy and Logistics in Afghanistan: Flawed Thinking
Strategy and Logistics in Afghanistan: Flawed Thinking
By MELVIN A. GOODMAN Truthout International Logistics will be the key to introducing 30,000 soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan in the next six to seven months and to confronting the Taliban over the next 18 months. This reflects an old saying in the military -...
War Cries from a Defeated Man
War Cries from a Defeated Man
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN CounterPunch International Ritual trumphalism about America’s righteous mission in the closing sentences of his speech did not dispel the distinct impression during President Obama’s 33-minute address to cadets at West Point Tuesday night that...
News in Pictures: Lights for Justice
News in Pictures: Lights for Justice
Reporters covering the Department of Justice (top) and students of De La Salle University in Manila held separate candlelighting ceremonies on Wednesday, December 2, to honor the victims of the Ampatuan massacre and demand justice. (Photos courtesy of Nonoy...
News in Pictures: Goodbye, Mom
News in Pictures: Goodbye, Mom
Eldest daughter Sunshine bids goodbye to her mother, Lawyer Concepcion ‘Connie’ Brizuela. Brizuela was laid down to her final rest on Monday, November 30, in their residence in Del Carmen village, President Roxas town in North Cotabato. She was one of the victims...
Proletaryo
Proletaryo
Ni RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Isang Proletaryo ang nakaupo’t nag-iisip, Ibinuka ang mga palad at kagyat ding kinimis; Maigting ang tikom at kaniyang inilapit Sa mukha, sa dibdib at itinaas sa langit— Nang muling ibuka’y bumalong ang putik Kasama ay...
In Northern Mindanao, Tears Flow Over Human-Rights Abuses
In Northern Mindanao, Tears Flow Over Human-Rights Abuses
By MACARIO PACANA
At the International Peace and Human Rights Summit in Cagayan de Oro City, victims and witnesses of human-rights abuses take turns recounting their appalling ordeal in the hands of the military and its paramilitary forces.
News in Pictures: In Memoriam
News in Pictures: In Memoriam
Candles, a placard and a wall poster demanding justice for the victims of the Ampatuan massacre and showing Bombo reporter Bart Maravilla, one of the 31 media workers killed in the carnage, at the Makati headquarters of the Bombo Radyo Network Tuesday evening. The...
News in Pictures: An Explosion of Outrage
News in Pictures: An Explosion of Outrage
Human-rights group Hustisya on Tuesday opened the 10-day long commemoration of the International Human Rights Day with an explosion of outrage, symbolized by red paint thrown at a target board with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s face surrounded by other...
News in Pictures: Rage for Justice
News in Pictures: Rage for Justice
In Davao City, journalists and lawyers light candles in Centennial Park calling for justice for their fallen comrades in the Ampatuan Massacre. Thirty journalists and two lawyers were killed in the worst election violence in Philippine history. (davaotoday.com...
On November 30, Trade Union Day, Workers Slam Worsening Attacks
On November 30, Trade Union Day, Workers Slam Worsening Attacks
By Bulatlat.com “There is no more opportune time to celebrate genuine trade unionism than these times when our democratic rights are under siege, said Romualdo Basilio, chair of Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao region and provincial coordinator of Anakpawis...
NUJP demands independent probe, special court to try massacre suspects
NUJP demands independent probe, special court to try massacre suspects
November 27, 2009 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) demands the creation of an independent commission, to include media representatives, to investigate the Ampatuan massacre and the events that led to it. This is to help ensure that no...
Strike Against Impunity, Strike for Peace and Democracy
Strike Against Impunity, Strike for Peace and Democracy
Today we say, "Enough." Nov 27, 2009 The massacre of 57 people in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao goes beyond a rido or clan war. The sheer scope of barbarity, the brazenness of the murders betrays the perpetrators’ belief in being beyond the reach of the law. Women,...
Obama’s Profile in Courage, or Cave-In?
Obama’s Profile in Courage, or Cave-In?
By RAY MCGOVERN truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com “It took a lot of courage on Kennedy’s part to defy the Pentagon, defy the military — and do the right thing,” said Col. Larry Wilkerson, USA (ret.), according to Robert Dreyfuss in his recent Rolling...
Obama as LBJ
Obama as LBJ
By FRANKLIN SPINNEY counterpunch International Posted by Bulatlat.com With President Obama poised to announce our "new" strategy in Afghanistan next Monday, the courtiers and pundits in Versailles on the Potomac seemed to have reached a consensus that he will opt...
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