Signing Up for Relief
Signing Up for Relief
Bulatlat Contributors | Nov 14, 2009
Welcome Home, War! (How America’s Wars are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties)
Welcome Home, War! (How America’s Wars are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties)
By ALFRED W. MCCOY TomDispatch.com International Posted by Bulatlat.com In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the...
An Open Letter of Melissa Roxas to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
An Open Letter of Melissa Roxas to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
November 11, 2009 Dear U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, I am writing to you because you are going to visit the Philippines to meet with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. I would like to appeal for you to discuss the gross human rights violations happening...
News in Pictures: Christmas Lights Fantastic in Tarlac
News in Pictures: Christmas Lights Fantastic in Tarlac
Like laser beams, lighted Christmas decorations on sale illuminate the dark national highway in Gerona, Tarlac. These decorations are already selling briskly with Christmas barely a month away. Gerona is home to the famous lighted decorations in the north, a...
Paghawi (Tula ng Isang Lupa)
Paghawi (Tula ng Isang Lupa)
Ni DANIEL B. VEGAS Kilala ko ang talampakan na nagkakalyo na nakikipagniig sa akin Ang mga paang pinagpala sa tuwinang tumatawid sa kaparangan ay naghahatid ng biyaya sa tulad kong ibinaon sa limot Kilala ko ang bisig na nakikipagbuno sa karit na masuyong...
Lumad School in Surigao Persists Amid Continuing Threats
Lumad School in Surigao Persists Amid Continuing Threats
By MARIFE MAGBANUA
Students and the teachers of an alternative boarding school for Lumads in Surigao del Sur pick up the pieces after being displaced by militarization for 40 days.
Focusing on Fort Hood Killer’s Beliefs Are an Easy Out to Avoid the Deeper Reasons for the Massacre
Focusing on Fort Hood Killer’s Beliefs Are an Easy Out to Avoid the Deeper Reasons for the Massacre
By MARK AMES AlterNet International Posted by Bulatlat.com It's hard to pinpoint what's the most shocking thing about Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan's shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas. I'll start with this: There's nothing all that groundbreaking about it. It...
As Relief Efforts Continue, Progressive Groups Rely on People’s Kindness
As Relief Efforts Continue, Progressive Groups Rely on People’s Kindness
By MAO HERMITANIO Contributed to Bulatlat.com Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng may have left the country last month but the need for relief and rehabilitation efforts have not subsided especially in Central Luzon provinces devastated by the surging flood. Volunteers of...
Obama’s Latest Use of ‘Secrecy’ to Shield Presidential Lawbreaking
Obama’s Latest Use of ‘Secrecy’ to Shield Presidential Lawbreaking
What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness -- Bush's NSA program -- is now deemed a vital state secret. by Glenn Greenwald Posted By Bulatlat.com The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the "state...
Why Obama’s Iran Policy Will Fail-Stuck in Bush Mode in a Changed World
Why Obama’s Iran Policy Will Fail-Stuck in Bush Mode in a Changed World
By DILIP HIRO commondreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com While the tone of the Obama administration is different from that of its predecessor, and some of its foreign policies diverge from those of George W. Bush, at their core both administrations...
Tortured Memories and the Culture of War
Tortured Memories and the Culture of War
By HENRY A. GIROUX Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com This article is drawn from Henry A. Giroux's forthcoming book, "Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror" (Paradigm Publishers, 2010). For the last decade, we have lived through a...
News in Pictures: Among the Dead
News in Pictures: Among the Dead
A boy walks on top of the tombs at Wireless Public Cemetery in Davao City. Thousands are expected to visit their loved ones tomorrow, All Souls' Day. (Photos by Keith Bacongco / AKP Images...
Filipino Nurses in Canada Vulnerable to Exploitation, Misleading and Abusive Policies
Filipino Nurses in Canada Vulnerable to Exploitation, Misleading and Abusive Policies
By JHONG DELA CRUZ
Filipino nurses have the longest record of migrating, as well as the longest history of abuse. This abuse is a result of aggressive, profit-driven, exploitative policies of both their point-of-origin and destination countries. One of these is Canada, one of the most popular destinations now for Filipino nurses.
Sidebar: Filipino Nurses in Canada -- In Search of a Better Life (An Interview with Evelyn Calugay)
Filipino Nurses in Canada: In Search of a Better Life
Filipino Nurses in Canada: In Search of a Better Life
In this interview, Evelyn Calugay, a veteran Filipino nurse in Canada, shares her experience when she decided to move to Canada. She also shares her opinion about Canadian policies that are detrimental to foreign-trained nurses. By JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com...
Regime’s Counter-Insurgency Campaign Drives Mindanao Lumads Homeless
Regime’s Counter-Insurgency Campaign Drives Mindanao Lumads Homeless
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Like the Moro in many parts of Mindanao, evacuation has become a way of life for the Lumads . They would rather sleep in schools, at village halls or town gymnasiums than stay in their villages and bear the brunt of military operations.
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