The battle of the people of Marinduque to seek compensation for the damage created by Marcopper Mining Corporation, which was then owned by Placer Dome Inc., took a new turn as another corporation, Barrick Gold Corporation, took over. BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat.com...
No gov’t plan for those in Israel, other ME countries A migrant group bares that only 3,400 out of the 34,000 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Lebanon will be repatriated by the Philippine government. Worse, it has no crisis management plan in case the war...
BY JAMES PETRAS Bulatlat.com "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."(General Moshe Dayan, Former Israeli Defense Minister) "Army Chief Dan Halutz has given the order to the air force to destroy 10 multi-story buildings in the Dahaya district (of...
The wife of a peasant leader slain in Misamis Oriental recognized one of his assailants as someone she had seen before in the Philippine Army’s 8th Infantry Brigade (IB) whose camp is situated near their farm in Tinagaan village, Salay, Misamis Oriental, the leader...
BY PETE L. ILAGAN THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS FOR REFORMS, INC. (NASECORE) Bulatlat.com This is to support and echo Socio-Economic Planning Sec. Romulo Neri's warning of an emerging monopoly in power generation, which immediately drew sharp...
Photo by Nicanor Segovia Bulatlat.com An African-American, a veteran of the Vietnam War, starkly looks at the camera as he mans a booth selling souvenir military patches and insignias. The booth is conveniently located near Washington, DC's Vietnam War Memorial – a...
A University of the Philippines (UP) professor and a leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) believe that, contrary to government claims, no peace agreement will be forged this year or in the remaining years of the Arroyo administration. The MILF leader...
Presidential allies are resorting to erroneous legal arguments to confuse the people and derail the impeachment process against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo this year. But if the “technical, prejudicial questions” worked last year, it may not work this year....
BY AMANDA GUMILA I am Amanda Gumila (amanduh_999@yahoo.com), a 2nd year college student. This is my opinion regarding the overpopulation crisis our country is currently experiencing. One does not need to be presented with results of scientific studies or with...
Kay Remia Bonayon na nag-aantay sa kapatid niyang nasa Lebanon NI AXEL PINPIN Bulatlat.com Kung ako ay may madyik? Pumarada na sana ang Baliwag Transit At Victory Lines Sa Borders Ng Amman. Disin sana’y di naliligaw Sa gubat papuntang Jordan Si Ate Rina. Disin...
By the Artists for the Removal of Gloria (ARREST Gloria) Bulatlat.com The country was at a standstill when Manny Pacquiao traded blows with Oscar Larios at the Araneta Coliseum last July 2. More than half the country was glued to TV sets, and even the churches...
Complainants of the alleged leakage of the recently conducted nursing board examinations denounced the Professional Regulations Commission’s (PRC) decision to release the results even without digging deeper into the controversy. Even if most of them passed, the...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Family members of nine missing persons filed a motion for writ of habeas corpus before the Supreme Court this morning. Among the relatives who filed the case were families of missing persons Prudencio Calubid, Rudy and Gabriel Calubad,...
BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com Defense lawyers of the so-called ‘Batasan 6’ militant lawmakers today asked a Makati regional trial court to suspend the hearing of rebellion charges against the six, and to first pursue probable cause for the charges. The Batasan 6...
BY JUN VERZOLA NORTHERN DISPATCH Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Dr. Constancio “Chandu” Claver, chairperson of the Kalinga chapter of Bayan Muna was seriously wounded and his wife Alice Omengan Claver killed in an ambush by two gunmen at 6:45 am this morning in...
It’s now mid-2006, and the killings and abductions, as well as the AFP and Malacañang’s lies have yet to stop. BY DEE AYROSO (Bulatlat.com) In March 1989, Honor Ayroso, then a 21-year-old leader of the League of Filipino Students, was abducted. That week, nine...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Posted 11:00 P.M., May 31, 2006 Journalists all over the country and friends from cause-oriented organizations wore black today in various protest activities to bid farewell to slain colleague Fernando “Dong” Batul, a...
Bulatlat.com Posted 8:30 p.m., May 27, 2006 Noli Capulong, secretary general of the party-list group Bayan Muna, was killed near St. John Hospital in Barangay Parian, Calamba town in the province of Laguna (52 km south of Manila) today at around 6 in the evening....
The tricycle is considered one of the most reliable transport vehicles not only in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur (433 kms north of Manila) where this picture was taken, but in most parts of the country. This is because of its capacity to traverse both asphalt and dirt road...
By Flon Faurillo / Bulatlat Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita and the top Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have denied the role of state forces in the killings of political activists, which have continually escalated under the Arroyo regime. Malacañang’s...
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