“It is my strongest hope that no one sees violence as a way to peace,” she said. These were the words of US Ambassador Kristie Kenney on Tuesday, Aug. 19, commenting on skirmishes between government forces and Moro rebels in Mindanao. It is an interesting statement...
NI ROMMEL PIPOY LINATOC Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29, August 24-30, 2008 Hayaan mong isaysay ko ang pighating nararamdaman Hatid ng palalong, baluktot na kasaysayan Sino ang makakalimot sa litanya ng kamusmusan Sinagpang ng bangungot, niluray ng...
BY CHERYL DAYTEC-YAÑGOT Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29, August 24-30, 2008 On this day, we remember the women and men All too aware that death was their destiny certain When in darkness and doom they scattered flames A big number without faces, many...
NI TERENCE KRISHNA LOPEZ Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 29, August 24-30, 2008 ano nga ba’t lungkot ang hatid nitong paglalakad sa mababaw pang gabi sa mga kalsada’t iskinita nitong lungsod na anong liwanag? ninais maibsan ang bigat na dala mula sa maghapong...
For 34 years, the Kalabaklabakan Mountain Clinic has provided continuous health services to the people, expanding its reach to more communities, and training a substantial number of community health workers. But instead of getting recognition from the government,...
The US-Arroyo game plan aims merely to ensnare the MILF into a prolonged ceasefire; confuse as well as raise the hopes of the Moro people that the GRP, with US prodding, will grant their aspirations for a Bangsamoro homeland and self-rule; and coopt the MILF...
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front of the Philippines DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 29, August 24-30, 2008 Contrary to the propaganda issued by the psywar experts of the Arroyo regime, I am not...
Last Thursday, Aug, 21, 500 Cebuanos marched to the Department of Energy (DoE) Visayas Field Office to denounce the rampant increase in oil price since Republic Act No. 8479 or the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Law, which took effect in July 1998. In a press...
A review of the 15th Solo Exhibition of Ms. Camille Jean Verdelaire D. de la Rosa, entitled Moods and Moments at the Renaissance Gallery, The Art Walk, 4/F Bldg. A, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City. Opened on August 22, the show will run up to the 31st of this month....
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Bulatlat.com August 22, 2008 - 3:15 p.m. For joining a rally to protest alleged unfair labor practices, casual employees of the Intramuros Administration were threatened with dismissal. Ma. Ana Harper, chief of the Intramuros Administration...
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Bulatlat.com Posted 1:00 p.m., Aug. 21, 2008 QUEZON CITY – Members of the newly formed alliance Concerned Organizations Opposed to Transfer, Layoff and Privatization for the Quezon City Central Business District (Contra-CBD) staged a picket...
BY MEDZ MONTEREAL Contributed to Bulatlat.com Posted August 21, 2008 - 4:10 p.m. On the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan - New Patriotic Alliance) said they see the ‘looming shadows...
The recent series of petroleum pump price rollbacks are welcome but oil firms should be transparent with their pricing particularly in the wake of windfall profits earned by oil firms due to record-high world crude prices. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat.com...
Faced with the current illegitimate government of Mrs. Gloria Arroyo, one that is extreme in its subservience to U.S. imperialism, its hunger for power, its corrupt and exploitative ways and its bloody suppression of the people, Ka Tanny’s principles and shining...
The Philippines has an oversupply of nursing graduates especially with the visa retrogression in the US. But ironically, many government hospitals lack nurses and other health professionals. With low pay and poor working conditions in government hospitals, nursing...
Critics say that it is saddening that a landmark agreement, like the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), is now being used as a tool to...
A group of Filipino migrants is alarmed over the sudden increase in the number of Filipino workers in the United Arab Emirates who reportedly committed suicide. BY ANGIE DE LARA MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 28, August 17 – 23, 2008 The Migrante...
The left-leaning fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said aggressive fund-sourcing is the ultimate motive for Environment Secretary Joselito Atienza’s current talk on rehabilitation of the Manila Bay, which the...
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