By IBON FOUNDATION Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Instead of appeals for more foreign aid to rehabilitate the country from the effects of disasters, research group Ibon urges government to cancel debt payments and free up resources for relief and rehabilitation....
By MATT RENNER truthout/Report International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) President Obama promised to usher in a new era of government transparency when he was sworn into office nine months ago. On January 21, Obama signed an executive order instructing all federal...
Reprinted from Radio Havana Cuba International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Could you give us your perspective on where we stand in the case of the Cuban Five? THOMAS GOLDSTEIN (expert on Supreme Court litigation): The direct appeals in the case of the Cuban Five have...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Who was it who said that the best way to ensure that nothing gets done is to create a committee? The Arroyo government’s announcement of the formation of the Special National...
Ni RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Namumuong rilim at hanging habagat, Kapag nagkayakap tiyak ikakalat Ang ulang kinandong na buhat sa dagat Lulusong sa ilog palikaw-banayad Magtitipun-tipon sa Dam na malawak. At kapag apaw na ang reserb'wang tubig At ang...
By John Cory Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Everything old is new again. It may be 2009 but the rhetoric is strictly 1950 when a man held up a sheet of paper and declared, "I have here in my hand a list of names ..." Glenn Beck is not...
By BYARD DUNCAN AlterNet International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) On Sept. 1, conservative columnist George Will published a seemingly out-of-nowhere, eye-popping op-ed for the Washington Post titled, "Time to Get out of Afghanistan." The piece, which called for "a...
By Henry A. Giroux Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, echoing the feelings of many progressives, recently wrote in The New York Times about how dismayed he was over the success right-wing...
By PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee International League of Peoples' Struggle 3 October 2009 Posted by (Bulatlat.com) The leaders of the imperialist powers and the world’s other big economies concluded their G-20 summit in...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat The International Committee to DEFEND Filipino progressives in Europe announced yesterday the second landmark decision of the European Court of First Instance (ECFI) on the terrorist listing...
By CARLOS H. CONDE
A disaster-prone country like the Philippines should by now be a nation of experts on calamities and how to deal with them. But, as Ondoy has shown, Filipinos are almost always caught unawares. And often, the high cost of these calamities are caused not so much by lack of knowledge or resources as by poor governance.
MANILA -- Tropical storm Ondoy could cause lasting poverty and severe difficulties for at least 206,000 families in the National Capital Region (NCR), Central Luzon and Calabarzon regions, research group Ibon Foundation said Friday. Even as the government downplays...
MANILA -- Research group ibon Foundation asked on Friday how aid for disaster relief given by donor governments was spent by the Arroyo government, in the face of the administration’s apparent lack of disaster preparedness and response when tropical storm Ondoy hit...
By NERVE MACASPAC Bulatlat.com The total number of fatalities from tropical storm “Ondoy" (international name: Ketsana) that submerged some areas in Central Luzon and Calabarzon in mud and water may already be close to 200. The National Disaster Coordinating...
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