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Workers, youth, other sectors march in thousands, slam Aquino’s anti-labor policies
Workers, youth, other sectors march in thousands, slam Aquino’s anti-labor policies
“The massive unemployment among the youth is testament to the Aquino regime’s failure to bring change to the lives of Filipinos. Millions of our countrymen are hungrier than ever, with most people remaining jobless, and those with jobs are living with barely sufficient wages.” –Kabataan Party Rep. Terry Ridon
What is wrong with the US-PH defense agreement and the Obama visit?
What is wrong with the US-PH defense agreement and the Obama visit?
In a rally, April 28, progressive groups cited five reasons why the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, which was signed yesterday by US Ambassador Philip Goldberg and Philippine Defense Sec. Voltaire Gazmin, is fundamentally wrong.
Bragging Rights: Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American achievements of the 21st century
Bragging Rights: Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American achievements of the 21st century
By Tom Engelhardt Tomdispatch.com “But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death, and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act. That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us...
The rise of fascism within our midst
The rise of fascism within our midst
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com Progressive analysts are raising the alarm over the rise of fascism. And they are not referring to neo-nazi groups in Europe, although these are on the rise too especially after the 2008 crisis, and governments in Europe...
Money Talks in Many Ways: Election-season reflections on how the ruling class rules
Money Talks in Many Ways: Election-season reflections on how the ruling class rules
By PAUL STREET Z Communications | News Analysis Truthout.com A solid majority of Americans has long told pollsters that the wealthy few and their giant corporations and financial institutions exercise too much power in “the world’s most celebrated democracy”[1] the...
Aquino slammed for kowtowing to US plan to project military might in Asia
Aquino slammed for kowtowing to US plan to project military might in Asia
By MARYA SALAMAT
What Aquino calls as “new juncture” in Philippine relations with the US revolves chiefly on the Philippine role in maintaining the Pacific as an 'American Lake.'
Free trade agreements-killing jobs and labor rights
Free trade agreements-killing jobs and labor rights
By David Bacon TruthOut News Analysis Last week President Obama broke his campaign commitment and put three free trade agreements up for a vote in Congress. Business interests, ecstatic at the prospect, promise they'll bring us jobs. Experience tells us, however,...
Satur C. Ocampo | Invent, then make
Satur C. Ocampo | Invent, then make
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star It seems the land of opportunity isn’t America anymore (nor Europe). For Filipinos, anyway. Not right now. Despite the recovery of the big banks through massive government bailouts, the US economy — in deep...
7 Deceptions about Bin Laden’s killing pushed by the Obama administration
7 Deceptions about Bin Laden’s killing pushed by the Obama administration
By Joshua Holland AlterNet The Obama administration deftly shaped the media coverage of its prized kill by detailing a picture-perfect, morally unambiguous special forces operation, which culminated in the death of Osama bin Laden. Most of the details of that...
How to Schedule a War: The Incredible Shrinking Withdrawal Date
How to Schedule a War: The Incredible Shrinking Withdrawal Date
By TOM ENGELHARDT Tomdispatch International Posted by Bulatlat.com Going, going, gone! You can almost hear the announcer’s voice throbbing with excitement, only we’re not talking about home runs here, but about the disappearing date on which, for the United States...
Obama’s Hawkish Policy in India
Obama’s Hawkish Policy in India
By FARZANA VERSEY www.counterpunch.org Posted by Bulatlat.com The most telling aspect of Barack Obama’s trip to India in early November is his planned visit to all the sites targeted in the Mumbai attacks of November 28, 2008. He will also stay at the Taj Hotel....
Obama at UN Summit: Foreign Aid Is “Core Pillar of American Power”
Obama at UN Summit: Foreign Aid Is “Core Pillar of American Power”
At the UN Wednesday, President Obama unveiled a plan to revitalize US foreign aid programs, which have been marginalized since the end of the cold war. By HOWARD LAFRANCHI The Christian Science Monitor / Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com United Nations,...
A Record of War Crimes by the Bush and Obama Administrations
A Record of War Crimes by the Bush and Obama Administrations
Bill Van Auken http://www.wsws. org/articles/ 2010/jul2010/ pers-j27. shtml The tens of thousands of documents posted online by WikiLeaks Sunday have provided a detailed and searing indictment of a criminal colonial war that the Obama administration has made its...
This is What Success Looks Like
This is What Success Looks Like
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN http://www.counterpunch.org/ Posted by Bulatlat.com The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon announced this week. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing into...
American Kleptocracy: How Fears of Socialism and Fascism Hide Naked Theft
American Kleptocracy: How Fears of Socialism and Fascism Hide Naked Theft
By William J. Astore TomDispatch.com/Truthout?International Posted by Bulatlat.com Kleptocracy -- now, there's a word I was taught to associate with corrupt and exploitative governments that steal ruthlessly and relentlessly from the people. It's a word, in fact,...
Cover-Ups to Protect US Murders in Afghanistan Continue Unabated
Cover-Ups to Protect US Murders in Afghanistan Continue Unabated
By DAVE LINDORFF Truthout Posted by Bulatlat.com So, finally the truth comes out ... sort of. After initially claiming that two pregnant women and a teenage girl killed in a US Special Forces raid on an Afghan home in Khataba in February had been discovered by the...
Behind the Afghan Fraud
Behind the Afghan Fraud
by CONN HALLINAN Commondreams.org Posted by Bulatlat.com All frauds have a purpose, mostly to relieve the unwary of their wealth, though occasionally to launch some foreign adventure. The 1965 Tonkin Gulf hoax that escalated the Vietnam War comes to mind. So, what...
Blowback in Kyrgyzstan
Blowback in Kyrgyzstan
by JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON Commondreams.org Posted by Bulatlat.com The turmoil in a small Central Asian country speaks volumes about US 'democratisation' efforts in the region The timing of this week's revolt in Kyrgyzstan, making headlines around the world, is telling....
Iraq: Seven Years of Occupation
Iraq: Seven Years of Occupation
By RAED JARRAR Truthout Posted by Bulatlat.com An Iraqi man waits in line outside a government headquarters building for food supplies from a humanitarian-aid delivery in northern Iraq. On April 9, 2003, exactly seven years ago, Baghdad fell under the US-led...
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