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2003

JULY

 

 Vol. 3, No. 25 July 27-August 2, 2003

Siege in Makati: Rebel Soldiers Ask President, Generals to Resign     By Bobby Tuazon

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Strong Republic is Fast Crumbling from Within – NDFP  By BULATLAT.COM

Quarantine for the "Coup Virus"?   By Juan L. Mercado

Bishops, Laymen Say No to GMA’s Presidential Run  By BULATLAT.COM

AFP’s Armed Vigilantes Force Lumads to Live in Fear; UN recommendation on paramilitary groups’ pull-out in Davao ignored  By Cheryl Dirige

Davao’s Urban Poor Brace for a Wave of Demolitions, Evictions   By Gilbert Pacificar

Rise in Human-Rights Abuses Alarms Advocates  By Carlos H. Conde

Related article: ‘The AFP Values Human Rights’

Gov’t Worker Looks Forward to GMA’s Last SONA  By Alexander Martin Remollino

A Tragedy That Refuses to Die: Seven years after a catastrophic spillage, two mining TNCs refuse to pay By Dennis Espada

The New Age of Imperialism  By John Bellamy Foster

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - STATE OF THE NATION   By Karl G. Ombion/BULATLAT.COM

Alternative Reader No. 62  Compiled by BULATLAT.COM

·        Notes on the Antiwar Movement   By Barbara Epstein

·        The New Geopolitics   By Michael Klare

 

 Vol. 3, No. 24 July 20-26, 2003  

Davao City: The Bloodbath Continues; 191 drug suspects killed by vigilantes since 1998    By Carlos H. Conde and Rolando Pinsoy

Petron’s Full Privatization: An Act of Desperation, a Fulfillment of Oil Deregulation  By Danilo Araña Arao

Is Justice Near for Marcos’ Human Rights Victims?  By Aubrey SC Makilan

‘Truth Commission’ Formed to Investigate Atrocities in South; Vice-President Guingona backs group’s initiative  By Rolando Pinsoy

Al-Ghozi Escape a Mockery of ‘War on Terror’: Expert  By Carlos H. Conde

Reyes Eyeing Diwalwal’s Gold for 2004 Elections?    By Bulatlat.com Mindanao Bureau

88% of Filipinos Today are Poor - IBON  By Dennis Espada

Power Struggle   By Alexander Martin Remollino

Macapagal-Arroyo Upstages Bishop’s Final Rites; Poor parishioners, militants barred from attending Mass   By Karl G. Ombion

Resume Peace Talks with NDFP, GMA Urged  By Karl G. Ombion and Edgar A. Cadagat

U.S. Intervention in the Philippines and Korea  By Prof. Jose Maria Sison

Migrant Watch - S. Korea Migrant Workers Score New Labor Policy   By BULATLAT.COM

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - A MEETING OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY   By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM

DEMOCRATIC SPACE - World Press Body Condemns Murder of Filipino Journalist  By the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)

news at a glance

·        MILF won’t break ties with NPA

·        KMU slams labor chief for violent dispersal

·        Protestant Church asks GMA to urge EU to de-list Sison, CPP-NPA as terrorists  

Alternative Reader No. 61  Compiled by BULATLAT.COM

·        Mr. Bush, You Are A Liar  By William Rivers Pitt

·        If One War 'Fact' On Iraq Is False, What Of Others? By Jay Bookman

 

 Vol. 3, No. 23 July 13-19, 2003

Special Report: Unrest in the Labor Front Heightens   

Metro Manila: The Mall Empire that Slavery Built  By BULATLAT.COM

Baguio: Contractualization Shatters Hopes for a Better Life in Baguio   By Audrey Mary Beltran

Negros: Contractualization, Job Layoffs Widespread in the Visayas  By Karl G. Ombion

Davao: Mindanao’s Modern-Day Slaves  By Carlos H. Conde

U.S. Among 5 Countries With Highest Number of SARS Cases   By Aubrey SC Makilan

Analysis - Muslim Mindanao has Lowest Minimum Wage, Highest Cost of Living   By Danilo Araña Arao

A Humiliated AFP Unleashes Its Force vs Civilians in Compostela Valley  By Daisy C. Gonzales

Compostela Mayor’s Killing Spotlights Top Gov’t Officials  By Daisy C. Gonzales

Army Soldiers Hack 4; Farmer-Leader May Lose Limb  By Northern Dispatch Weekly

Bayan Muna to Question Immunity Pact in High Court   By Ronalyn Olea

MIGRANT WATCH

Freed After 5 Years in Prison, 3 OFWs are Sentenced Again to 6 Years  By BULATLAT.COM

HK Migrants Protest: P3-B Medicare Fund Transfer an Election Gimmick?  By BULATLAT.COM

LABOR WATCH - Alsons Workers Hail ‘Victory’ but Warn of Firm’s ‘Manipulations’  By Jonathan Carillo

Filipino Child and Youth Offenders: In Incalculable Misery  By Alexander Martin Remollino

Culture - The State of Culture and the Arts is the State of the Nation  By the Concerned Artists of the Philippines

Damalerio killing: Main Suspect Now Wears Surgical Mask; is Allegedly Hunting Witnesses  By the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility

news at a glance

·        CPP hits Arroyo for scuttling peace talks

·        Gabriela welcomes CBCP actions on sex scandals

·        Tadian folk oppose corporate mining

·        Militants belittle GMA’s 2004 plans  

Alternative Reader No. 60  Compiled by BULATLAT.COM

·        US positions its forces for first strike against North Korea

·        Occupation, Resistance and the Plight of the GIs: Bring 'Em Home!   By Gary Leupp

 

 Vol. 3, No. 22 July 6-12, 2003

LABOR WATCH - SM Workers Decry Union Busting  By Ronalyn Olea

Gov’t Uses Highway Billboards in Red Scare Campaign    By Paulo Dumayac

Bishop Antonio Y. Fortich: Pilgrim for the Poor   By Edgar Cadagat and Karl G. Ombion

Consumer Groups Urge 2004 Candidates to Take up Power Issue  By Gerry Albert Corpuz

Related article: Embedded PPA in the New Unbundled Power Rates  

Panata ng Bayan: In Photos  By Arkibong Bayan

House and Senate Bills on UP Charter revision: The Road to UP’s Commercialization   By Aubrey SC Makilan

‘Meteor Garden’: A Mother’s Review   By Rowena Paraan

Compostela Valley Encounter: NPA Guerrillas Outmaneuver Army Troopers, Inflict Heavy Casualties   By Bejay Absin

NPA Slams AFP for Arrest of Two Activist Leaders  By BULATLAT.COM

No Journalist in Military OB, AFP General Says  By Edgar Cadagat and Karl G. Ombion

History's Memory, Literature's Memory - Including Ourselves in History By Linda Ty-Casper

News Analysis - War on Drugs, War on "Terror"?   By Alexander Martin Remollino

ELECTION WATCH - His Father's Namesake: The senator eyes the presidency   By Alexander Martin Remollino

news at a glance

·        Free woman political prisoner and her sick baby, HR group urges

·        But convicted killers are released

·        OFWs join Asia-wide boycott campaign against Nestle

·        Salamat not part of negotiating panel, MILF insists

·        CPP, NPA unfazed by Arroyo's "counterattacks" 

Alternative Reader No. 59  Compiled by BULATLAT.COM

·        A Third World Country Can Still Defeat a U.S. Military Aggression, Argues German Sociologist

·        US fails post-war Iraq examination By Jim Lobe

·        Descending into the quagmire By Daniel Smith

 

 
 

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