BY Angelica Campo NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Two days after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo admitted that it was her voice in the wiretapped phone conversations, around 400 persons from Metro Baguio gathered for a mini concert initiated by youth groups at Malcolm Square, here last June 30. The concert was their…

Administration congressmen finally agreed June 30 to play the CD containing the wiretapped conversations between the President and a top election official suggesting electoral fraud last year. More and more legislators believe Macapagal-Arroyo will be judged not in Congress but in the streets. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com The protracted debate over whether to play the…

Any scenario that would preserve the present political institutions which have proven to be rotten and already past their age – or something that will put up a military junta – will only precipitate a more radical transformation. And the new political struggle may usher in a revolutionary situation. By Bobby Tuazon Bulatlat.com The next…

By Bobby Tuazon Bulatlat.com Bulatlat last week held an email interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison as a political analyst and inspirational leader of the national democratic movement in the country with regards the current political crisis. Sison, who is on forced exile in The Netherlands, is also the current chief political consultant of the…

It was a big, jolly rally, and maybe even Malacañang had a laugh. But the writing on the wall is definitely no laughing matter for the beleaguered President. PHOTOS BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN AND DABET CASTAÑEDA TEXT BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com (PICTURE) “That’s what you call a rally!” one of the protesters would exclaim.…

Even as the Asian Human Rights Commission condemned in a statement the continued use of torture on prisoners in the Philippines, a suspected guerrilla leader in Bicol was reported to have been tortured by his military captors. BY BULATLAT Bulatlat.com Forty-five year old New People’s Army (NPA) leader Elmer Osila reportedly uses the names Ka…