A total of 120 political activists and supporters of progressive party lists and people’s organizations have been killed from January to October 26. For the sake of human rights, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her mean killing machine must be prevented from...
It should be amply evident by now that the killing of Church people, lawyers, members of people's organizations, and leaders and members of progressive party-list groups is part of a state policy to eliminate dissenters, left-wing personalities involved in the...
Official statistics show that seven out of every 10 Filipinos die without ever seeing a doctor and that the nearly 75 percent of the population living below poverty line are mainly in rural areas where there is no access to basic services such as health and medical...
The rape case is one of the many atrocities committed by US troops in the conduct of joint US-RP exercises. We recall the incident in Manarapan, Carmen, North Cotabato in mid-2004, where one elderly woman, fearing that a military operation was underway, died of a...
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Our first, short visit to Cuba has left us impressed with the accomplishments of the island-nation that for more than 40 years has stood up to global capitalism. We also returned home aware of the many limits of the...
The call for a snap election is a sure sign of desperation, not among the opposition but among Mrs. Arroyo’s own allies, many of whom are beginning to realize how incorrigibly focused she is on staying in power, even if it be to the entire nation’s detriment. By...
Two of those who were recently killed in Central Luzon have had brushes before with Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, the man the victims’ relatives and friends claim as behind the killings. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com ANGELES CITY, Pampanga - The eldest son of slain...
While painting the wall of the police office in Baguio City, 246 kms. north of Manila, a laborer also gives his mightiest efforts to cheat death as he hangs seated on a bamboo beam, with only a nylon rope to help him keep his balance. Just one wrong move and he...
The citizens’ congress that will try President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is an alternative forum that has become necessary because of the impotence of traditional institutions and processes to address the serious charges being levied against the president. BY DABET...
By Rev. Erahvilla M. Maga-Cabillas Contributed to Bulatlat.com beneath the soil grave an echo cried out arise brother, sister, mother, father, parent, friend succumb not to fiendish and cruelest death, come, breath long, wide and deep be strongest, permit not the...
Ni Raul Funilas Posted by Bulatlat.com Kasarapan nang tagayan Sa bakurang pahingahan, Labimpitong kasamahan Ni Ka Ric, nagkakantahan. At ang kanilang usapa’y Ang bakpey sa sobrang araw Nilang pinagtrabahuhan. Nang biglang umalingawngaw! Ang putok na nakadungaw Ng...
(Kay Ka Ric Ramos ng CATLU) Ni Raul Funilas Kasarapan nang tagayan Sa bakurang pahingahan, Labimpitong kasamahan Ni Ka Ric, nagkakantahan. At ang kanilang usapa’y Ang bakpey sa sobrang araw Nilang pinagtrabahuhan. Nang biglang umalingawngaw! Ang putok na nakadungaw...
I don't think one earns respect as a film reviewer by appearing to be arrogantly dismissive and irresponsible with assertions. I always thought that reviewing films demands no less than production of knowledge. BY TOMAS TALLEDO Contributed to Bulatlat.com Masahista...
By Rev. Erahvilla M. Maga-Cabillas beneath the soil grave an echo cried out arise brother, sister, mother, father, parent, friend succumb not to fiendish and cruelest death, come, breath long, wide and deep be strongest, permit not the wicked to seize and end Life,...
While painting the wall of the police office in Baguio City, 246 kms. north of Manila, a laborer also gives his mightiest efforts to cheat death as he hangs seated on a bamboo beam, with only a nylon rope to help him keep his balance. Just one wrong move and he...
The cold blooded murder of Ricardo “Ka Ric” Ramos, president of the Central Azucarera de Tarlac Labor Union (CATLU) at the strife-ridden Hacienda Luisita and baranggay captain of Bo. Mapalacsiao, was an act of treachery and desperation. By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo...
One of Ibon’s proposals is a system of centralized procurement of imported crude oil and refined oil products, a necessary step to ensure the steady supply of reasonably priced petroleum in the country. By Arnold Padilla Ibon Features Posted by Bulatlat It has now...
If former President Marcos had his “Green Revolution” and “miracle rice” program, the Arroyo administration has its agricultural modernization program and Bt corn. But the effects on the peasantry are the same dependence on creditors, indebtedness, soil...
By Germán Sánchez AxisofLogic.com Editor's Note: As U.S. citizens most of us have precious little knowledge or understanding of revolution. Through our educational systems and the corporate media in the U.S. we have received either no information or distortions...
by Someshwar Singh South-North Development Monitor - Third World Network Dec. 1999 Geneva, 21 Dec 99 -- More than half of the world's population in 75 countries is subject to unilateral coercive economic measures or 'sanctions' by one country alone - the United...
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