By SITTIE SUNDANG Bulatlat.com DATU PIANG, Maguindanao- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) or “bakwits” have chosen to stay at the evacuation centers despite declarations of a suspension of offensive military operations (Somo) and a suspension of military actions...
By REP. NERI JAVIER COLMENARES Bayan Muna Posted by (Bulatlat.com) We congratulate President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for placing the Philippines in the blighted company of war-torn, aid-dependent countries like Sudan and Somalia. The Philippine Daily Inquirer...
By HENRY A. GIROUX Truthout | Perspective Posted by Bulatlat.com Under the Bush administration, a seeping, sometimes galloping, authoritarianism began to reach into every vestige of the culture, giving free rein to those anti-democratic forces in which religious,...
By IBON FOUNDATION Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Government’s skewed spending priorities can be seen in the proposed P1.54-trillion national budget for 2010, which further reveals how it gives importance to debt payments over spending for social services. The single...
By RITCHE T. SALGADO Bulatlat.com Farmers in Central Visayas are terrified that their chances to survive, amid the emerging effects of climate change, would be slimmer should the world’s policy makers decide to give multinational companies more control over the...
By the CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE (CENPEG) Analysis Posted by Bulatlat The current row in the presidential race regarding preference ratings and the alleged use of public funds for election infomercials has been expected, as in past elections....
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise/Business World Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Those who predicted the fizzling out of moves to enlist Senator Noynoy Aquino to run for President in the wake of the massive turn-out at the burial of his mother, former President Corazon...
Hundreds Honor the Desaparecidos
By FIDEL CASTRO RUZ International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) I was amazed to read the wire services issued during the weekend about the US domestic policy, evidencing a systematic decline in President Barack Obama’s influence. His surprising electoral victory had not...
Blackwater is said to be the main private security company in charge of protecting the US staff in Iraq during the George W. Bush administration. Reportedly, its aggressive tactics were criticized on different occasions. The most serious case occurred on September,...
By JASON LEOPOLD Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Among the treasure trove of documents released on Monday related to the CIA's detention and torture program is a 20-page background paper that, for the first time, describes in...
By MARK WEISBROT The Guardian International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Americans are famous for not paying much attention to the rest of the world, and it is often said that foreign wars are the way that we learn geography. But most often it is not the people who...
The Writing on the Street
By Jeremy Scahill The Nation/Alternet International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) In April 2002, the CIA paid Blackwater more than $5 million to deploy a small team of men inside Afghanistan during the early stages of US operations in the country. A month later, Erik...
By PATRICK COCKBURN Counterpunch International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) In Iraq and Afghanistan American and British forces became participants in civil wars which their own presence has exacerbated and prolonged. The US and UK governments persistently ignore the...
Rags-to-Riches Not At All. A rag vendor takes a rest by the sidewalk. (By Pom Cahilog-Villanueva)
By GRACE UDDIN Indigenous Peoples Watch Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat DAVAO CITY— A partylist representative and leaders of indigenous peoples’ groups in Mindanao said there is no reason to celebrate the 15th year of International Day of Indigenous Peoples as the...
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