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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
By WILLIAM RIVERS PITT truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com The calendar has come around again to Thanksgiving, and families all over the country will be gathering around dinner tables to celebrate. Or try to, anyway. With unemployment above ten percent,...
By PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON Chairperson International League of Peoples' Struggle Posted by Bulatlat.com The International Coordinating Committee and all member-organizations of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) condemn with all their moral...
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com It was a carnage waiting to happen. In the wild, wild province of Maguindanao, ruled since 2001 by the Ampatuan clan, long-time political allies of de facto President Gloria...
Ni RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Kung naging tingga at apoy ang ibinuga Ng aking nilabit na pluma at tinta Sa himagsikan kong nais ay pag-asang Mahango ang bayang nasadlak sa dusa’y Di na nagtagal pa ang digmang pakikibaka Sa mga kumupot sa paglayang...
Members of the Baguio Pride Network (BPN), an alliance of gay and lesbian organizations, individuals, friends and families in Baguio City and La Trinidad, Benguet, denounce during a rally this week the Commission on Election's invalidation of Ang Ladlad Partylist....
By SARAH RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com (after a tv interview featuring the widow of Hacienda Luisita martyr Ric Ramos) "they should have not let his brain spattered on the floor like that; or his eyes dismembered from his face it's the kids, it's too painful for them to...
By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Marmaris, Turkey CounterPunch International Posted by Bulatlat.com In the opening lines of the oldest treatise on the conduct of war, Sun Tzu said that the question of war is vital to the state, and therefore, it is imperative to study it....
By EUGENE ROBINSON Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com WASHINGTON – The most dreadful burden of the presidency - the power to send men and women to die for their country - seems to weigh heavily on Barack Obama these days. He went to Dover Air Force Base...
9 November 2009 We, the International Committee DEFEND, wish to express our heartfelt gratitude and high appreciation to five members of the Dutch First Chamber (Senate), who belong to various major parties, for raising last 3 November 2009 questions aimed at...
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