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...
Inaction, arrogance, and neglect were the responses of Philippine embassy officials to the pleas for assistance of OFWs in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. BY ANGIE DE LARA MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 28, August 17-23, 2008 Philippine Embassy offices in...
Sixty-three years after the Second World War ended, the Japanese Imperial Army’s “comfort women” are still fighting for justice despite their age. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 Sixty-three years after the Second World...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) issued an advisory August 10 requiring overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and other travelers to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to declare upon arrival and departure to and from the Kingdom their cash, precious metals or...
BY ORLANDO A. MALIWANAG Alyansa Laban sa Mina DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 Our worst fear has been confirmed: that Mike Defensor all along had been the defender not of the environment but of mining interests when he...
The Military and the Monetary, they get together whenever they think its necessary, they've turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, they are turning the planet, into a cemetery (Gil Scott-Heron) BY AZIZ CHOUDRY GATT Watchdog Contributed to Bulatlat.com...
BY GILL H BOEHRINGER Division of Humanities, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia Contributed to Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 “First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II [Act 4, Sc.2] “First they came for...
BY THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEOPLES’ STRUGGLES London, England DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 News coming from Iran indicates an alarming rise in the number of executions and an intensification of the suppression of...
BY MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY Global Research, August 10, 2008 ALTERNATIVE READER Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 During the night of August 7, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Georgia's president Saakashvili...
BY PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON Chief Political Consultant National Democratic Front of the Philippines DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has consistently supported the...
BY PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Information Clearing House ALTERNATIVE READER Posted by Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 “Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.” -- John Stuart...
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