By Paul Rockwell In Motion Magazine "Sir, No Sir," A timely film, premiers week of 4/3/2006. "General, your tank is a mighty vehicle. It shatters the forest and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs drivers. General, a man is quite expendable. He...
By Larry C. Johnson t r u t h o u t | Report Clearly smarting under charges that they are "failing" to tell the good news in Iraq, the major TV network and cable channels appear to have abandoned any effort to report what is going on in Iraq. Fearful of being...
NI LOLITO R. GO, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Sa ikaanim na milyon, pitong daan, walumpu't siyam na libo, isang daan at dalawampu't apat na pagkakatao'y magtatagisan na naman ang mga bilang at titik Tumitilamsik ang init ng tanghali, makapanikip-dibdib ang sikip,...
Bayan Muna-Southern Mindanao Region expressed fears that the P1.06-trillion 2006 budget, now in the Senate for approval, will be used by Malacañang allegedly for the charter change drive. Bayan Muna-SMR spokesperson Jeppie Ramada criticized what he described as the...
BY DEE AYROSO Bulatlat.com During the Japanese occupation, they held pabasa in hushed voices by the river to avoid being caught by the Japanese soldiers. Come war or high water, as far as Aling Alegre remembers, her family reads the Pasyon every Lenten season. As...
By Trina Melissa Federis Bulatlat.com Summer is a time for ice cream, as the hot weather tends to increase demand for this already popular dessert. At this time, Philippine-owned enterprises compete with their foreign counterparts by lowering their prices, the same...
BY CHESTER STONE BATNAG Posted by Bulatlat.com Arms and hands would move with a cheer In fibers of wood were praises so dear Recognized by many with emotions they stir Is this the meaning of achievements? We hear. What kind of bricks did we step on this path Was...
BY MAYETTE INIGUID AND ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com A blind poet from Sagada, Mt. Province has recently been chosen as one of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)’s candidates for the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines...
BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat.com Sipalay City faces another mining disaster with the operation of Colet Mines, says an Environmental Investigation Mission. Bacolod City – Sipalay City is facing a repeat of of the mining disasters in the 80s and 90s, when a mining...
By Michael Goyagoy IBON Features Posted by Bulatlat.com Although Malacañang denies having anything to do with it, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recently declared her support for charter change through the people's initiative. In typical fashion, Arroyo likened...
Story and pictures by Grace Cantal-Albasin davaotoday.com Joash Dignos, a commentator critical of the mayor, said he continued broadcasting because he thought that was the only way to prevent the official from harming him. "I had to continue it, to inform the...
BY NICANOR SEGOVIA Bulatlat.com As the U.S. Catholic Church opens its doors to Filipino priests, this situation causes a “brain drain” of sorts in the Philippines. Priests and seminarians go to the U.S., attracted by a package of relocation, scholarships and other...
BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luson News Service Posted by Bulatlat.com As the 14th martyr of the Hacienda Luisita struggle was buried, the issues connected to his death continue to hound the strife-torn hacienda. Concepcion, Tarlac - The mourners marched under the...
BY LISA C. ITO Bulatlat.com While the Department of Justice (DOJ) seems to be hell-bent on keeping 73-year old Crispin Beltran detained at a Camp Crame hospital, doctors and psychiatrists are recommending his transfer to a hospital with adequate facilities. This,...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com The Anti-Terrorism Bill, as passed by the House of Representatives on third reading, may be "used politically to erroneously charge with terrorism and improperly extradite" the known leaders of the National Democratic Front of the...
BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat.com April 6 is considered a victory for protesters as 3,000 demonstrators managed to reach Don Chino Roces bridge (near Malacañang Palace in Manila) after it has been declared as a “no-rally zone” as part of President Gloria...
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS (Bulatlat.com) The government cannot merely ignore the results of opinion surveys and issues raised against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and simply claim that criticisms against her are false and the handiwork of the opposition. This seems to be a bad...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com A former commissioner of the Commission on Elections said that the issue of alleged fraud in the 2004 presidential election is not yet closed as documents on the alleged cheating were shown at a Senate hearing. A former...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com “People’s initiative is an idea that comes from the people, it is not an idea imposed on (them),” lawyer Mejol Sadain, who retired from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) last February, said in an interview with...
BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luson News Service Posted 10:00 p.m., Apr. 9, 2006 TARLAC CITY — Ronald Intal, the youth leader in Hacienda Luisita who was abducted allegedly by government troops and has been missing since April 3 may be alive and in the custody of the...
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