The Arroyo administration has been courting foreign mining corporations to invest in the country. It has repeatedly said that a revitalized mining industry will create more jobs and will boost the local economy. Facts and experience, however, prove otherwise.
A fact-finding mission in Zamboanga City documented the inhumane treatment experienced by Filipino deportees from Sabah, Malaysia. BY ANGIE DE LARA MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat A fact-finding mission led by Migrante International was held Oct. 2 to 5 to look into the...
At stake in our fight against JPEPA is the protection and preservation of our natural resources and our environment, the defense against the exploitation and oppression of human labor against the Arroyo regime’s pimping of Filipino nurses, caregivers and skilled...
Contrary to President Arroyo’s statement that the ratification of Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) will protect the country from the global financial crisis, it will make the country more vulnerable to economic shocks. BY IBON FOUNDATION...
“Once I regain my strength, I will still go back to mining,” declared Robert Buhway in Ilocano while recuperating at the Baguio City General Hospital, where he was confined after being rescued from a mining tunnel in Itogon. He is among 16 miners trapped in the...
Deregulation is quite simple but the powers-that-be tend to provide complicated explanations in claiming that it should be given a chance to work despite what is happening in the world market. Indeed, a clear understanding of oil deregulation leads one to oppose...
NI ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Inilathala ng Bulatlat Maging ang pinakamahimbing nating pagtulog ay hindi mahimbing. Sa pinakatahimik man nating mga gabi, waring walang katapusan ang ingay ng mga buldoser, ng nagkakapira-pirasong mga tabla, ng nagkakayupi-yuping mga...
Ano pa ang kapasidad ng sarili na makapagtatwa ng kahirapan? Sa lente ng buhay ng gitnang uri, ang uring afiliasyon ay nagbabago. Nagkakaroon ng pagtratraidor (betrayal) sa uring pinagmulan (class origin) para ang identifikasyon ay pumanig sa abstraksyon at...
A review of MissBehaving, a two-woman exhibit by Con Cabrera and Bunch Garcia at the Lunduyan Gallery, 88 Kamuning Road, Quezon City from October 4-22, 2008. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA CULTURE Bulatlat According to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, a Jungian psychoanalyst...
Residents of a village in Kabayan, Benguet opposed the application of a Manila-based proponent to build a mini-hydro electric project in one of their rivers. They say they were never consulted, and the benefits they take from the river would be reduced. BY ARTHUR...
There is a large measure of truth to the observation of an increasing number of analysts that the fundamental reasons for the meltdown we are witnessing today--the fundamental and fatal "unsoundness" of the capitalist system--had long been rigorously and...
Letter of Concern from Filipino Scholars in the US: On the Enforced Disappearance of James Balao (Cordillera People’s Alliance) We are alarmed and disturbed with the enforced disappearance of Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) member James M. Balao since September...
It is true that the financial crisis affecting the US and the other centers of capitalism, including Germany, UK and Japan, would not bring the country down into a recession and crisis. The Philippines is already in a state of crisis, in the first place. What it...
The KMU is tagged as a “rebel group” in a high school textbook; one of its lawyers is slapped with criminal charges in connection with the burning of a cellsite; there was an attempt to break into their national office. All these, says one of the KMU's leaders,...
With members of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) and Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA), the family of missing activist James M. Balao, through counsel National Union of Peoples Lawyers (NUPL), filed a petition for a writ of amparo at the Benguet Regional...
If I recall correctly, the very same US Congress that is considering bailing out the big financial corporations that got the economy into its current mess because of their greed and the government's willingness to forgo any regulation of their doings (and the...
What began as a “War on Terror” with waves of bombing attacks on Kandahar and Kabul October 7, 2001 has long since become a War of Terror, inflicted on the peoples of Southwest Asia, generating and strengthening resistance movements (“insurgencies”), enraging local...
This corporate Congress cannot be expected to issue serious demands, set tough conditions, or impose strict rules on the auto companies to ensure their workers receive fair pay and benefits, and prevent their fat-cat executives from making off big while leaving...
The militant Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (Piston or Unity of Drivers and Operators’ Associations Nationwide) said that the government should go after what it described as “legal looters” of motorists' money – the giant oil...
Analysts of global economic developments deemed that the US-led 'war on terror' will intensify and escalate as a result of the US financial and economic crisis.
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