By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz Posted by Bulatlat.com Nothing else worked that day. The President was flying haplessly around the country looking distinctly unpresidential; the Vice President was in a bunkered panic. The military couldn't scramble armed jets...
By Maura Reynolds, Richard B. Schmitt and David G. Savage The Los Angeles Times Posted by Bulatlat Convictions could also be based on material unseen by the accused. The Senate may object. Washington — President Bush asked Congress Wednesday to approve a new system...
BY MALAYA AREVALO Posted by Bulatlat.com there is a whisper of memories rising in the fields, the earth wet, warm with tears, names rambling in the shivering hollow of bullet shells, something is certainly swelling, the furious stirring of want, the clamoring...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Por dios por santo naman, Ano na ba’ng nangyayari sa ating bayan? Ganito na lamang, ganire na lamang ang lamangan Kahit saang departamento ng pamahalaan. Ang sabi nila'y nangaglilingkod, Por dios por santo! himig...
Because they have not the fear of God in them, we must try to instill at least the fear of the wrath of a people fed up with lies and of being screwed by their supposed leaders in broad daylight. Let us fight to stop GMA’s chacha in its tracks. BY CAROL...
Mula 1947 hanggang 1991, sa higit tatlong libong naiulat na krimeng nagawa ng mga hukbong Kano dito sa bansa, wala ni isang kaso ang umabot sa hukuman at nalitis at nakapaghatol laban sa mga nagkasalang sundalo ng Estados Unidos, kabilang na ang mga krimeng...
China's fast GDP growth has depleted its natural resources and damaged its environment. Workers and peasants in China have suffered. Even the fortunes of the "middle class" will fall. The rapidly growing protests to plant closings, land grabbing, wage and benefit...
The walk to the Rizal Park before dusk in 1975 proved to be not just a stroll for 46-year old Amparo Diaz, an organizer of the urban poor in Tondo, Manila. She found herself picked up by armed men and herded into a jeep. BY DABET CASTANEDA Bulatlat.com The walk to...
A local human rights group cast doubts on what the military claims to be a mass grave of the communist movement’s purge victims. They said the site was actually a “no-man’s land”, where the village population evacuated to escape military operations. BY JOHANN HEIN...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Negros has described the arrest by government soldiers of a group of 11 theater members as “illegal.” It will investigate the case. By Karl G. Ombion Bulatlat.com BACOLOD City – In these days of politically-motivated...
The Arroyo regime’s “total war” is not only victimizing progressive party lists, lawyers, church workers, teachers, students, and peasants. It is also victimizing workers who are peacefully exercising their union rights as the experience of the Samahan ng mga...
By Joel Connelly The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted by Bulatlat.com In what I hope was an early-morning miscue, the weekend KPLU newsreader recently told listeners that "labor bosses" were gathering in Wenatchee for the Washington State Labor Council's annual...
BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Posted by Bulatlat GENEVA — UN human rights experts saw torture, Military prisons and deprivation of civil liberties rear their ugly head in the post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism drive, including in the very countries where they least expected to...
BY SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL Salon.com Posted by Bulatlat The National Security Agency is providing signal intelligence to Israel to monitor whether Syria and Iran are supplying new armaments to Hezbollah as it fires hundreds of missiles into northern Israel, according to...
BY JOHN MUELLER Foreign Affairs Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has been neither a successful strike nor a close call in the United States since 9/11. The reasonable -- but rarely heard -- explanation is that there...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Ang mahinang bulong ng gulong ng alon, Inyong ulinigin at bigyang-halaga. “May kipkip na sungit ang bagong panahon… Kailan titigil ang hampas-daluyong Na laging mabagsik ang dalang parusa?” Ang mahinang bulong ng gulong ng...
Overseas Filipino workers are dubbed as “modern-day heroes” by government. Rightly so, because their remittances prop up the economy by bringing in the much-needed dollars and stimulating domestic consumer spending. They are also “modern-day heroes” because they...
NI AXEL PINPIN Inilathala ng Bulatlat Planado at tiyak nang simulan nilang hukayin ang libingan nilang magiging mga martir. Rigodon na nga sila at di magkamayaw upang ipagyabang sa ‘yo, Jovi, ang di nila pag-ayaw sa handog mong kamatayang walang hanggan. At...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR), Karapatan, an alliance of human rights organizations, and groups of human rights lawyers agree that the Melo Commission merely duplicates the functions of the CHR. They also believe that the Melo commission’s probe will amount...
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