Obama's intent to immunize those who broke the law violates his constitutional duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." BY MARJORIE COHN AlterNet INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s...
Ang nangyari sa Mayo Uno 2009 ay isa lamang yugto sa realisasyon ng manggagawa sa kanyang halaga, ang tagapag-akda ng kasaysayan. At kung ang indikasyon ay ang bilang ng nagkakaisang hanay ng manggagawa, magsasaka, estudyante, guro at intelektwal, ang estado ni...
A day before the Appellate Court of Taiwan would hand down its verdict on May 4, Migrante International and the family of Alcaraz would hold a prayer rally to save the life of Cecilia. “Habang si Pacquiao ay nakikipagsuntukan kay Hatton, kami naman ay...
Emy Pepito, like many other Filipinos, went to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in search of a better life and to be able to provide a better future for his mother and nieces. Living the destitute land of Misamis Occidental, Mindanao, Pepito left the Philippines to work...
The world has once again celebrated International Labor Day this May 1st. This year’s May 1 celebration has assumed greater significance as the world economic crisis wreaks havoc on people’s lives especially the working class. Workers all over the world have been...
Engineer Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada is an accidental hero but a hero nonetheless to a people starved for real-life, modern-day heroes. Would it not be an irony of the most triumphant kind if this latest attempt to silence Jun Lozada, to break his will and to isolate him,...
You cannot disentangle the torture program from the war of aggression in Iraq – nor from the illegal wiretapping program, the corrupt war profiteering, and all the other degradations of liberty and law that have been so accelerated in the past eight years. They are...
Newly released US government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Conventions' protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the...
May 1, 2009 will mark a little-known but important anniversary: on May 1, 1898, Admiral George Dewey steamed into Manila Bay and sunk the Spanish fleet defending the capital. The event marked the beginning of 111 years of American intervention in the Philippines....
The Central American wars were only one ugly facet of the Reagan administration's world impact, but they were hardly an exception to the overall trend. Whatever Professor Diggins and the others believe was in Ronald Reagan's heart and mind, during his years in...
A weary city dweller catches some shuteye amidst the din of downtown traffic in Intramuros, Manila. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva/bulatlat.com)
BY JANESS ANN J. ELLAO MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Last April 2, 2009, four Filipino migrant laborers working for CIFEX World Construction Firm based in Libya, were abducted and detained in a high fenced abandoned building, away from the accommodation that was provided...
Two survivors of torture and leaders of the human rights group Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights) would expose the abuses of the Philippine government before the United Nations Committee Against Torture.
The message still for many is that one must not “run afoul of the law” meaning, do not criticize much less oppose government authorities, from the policeman on the beat to the untouchables in and around Malacañang. In this country, crime does pay especially if you...
Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada has been ordered arrested on perjury charges stemming from his revelation that former Arroyo spokesperson Mike Defensor offered him money to keep his mouth shut about his abduction from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport; Jovito “The...
Spearfishing (Diadi, Nueva Vizacaya). Little boys spearfishing for little fishes with little success. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva / Bulatlat.com )
Is it dead, or is it not? Considering the desperation of the Arroyo regime, the threat of Charter change will always be there for as long as the various resolutions filed in the House of Representatives are not withdrawn.BY Flon Faurillo/bulatlat.com
Part 1 of a two-part series Publicized as a “stimulus package”, the Economic Resiliency Plan (ERP) is criticized even by neoliberal economists as severely lacking in funds to stimulate economic activity amid the global downturn. Aggravating these funding problems...
As administration allies push for amendments of economic provisions in the Constitution, research group IBON Foundation says that the resolution seeking to allow corporations to own land and land-based resources in the Philippines are based on an outmoded ideology...
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