By Jesse Jackson The Chicago Sun-Times Posted by Bulatlat.com The National Security Agency has created "the largest database ever" with the phone records of millions of Americans provided to the NSA by AT&T, Verizon and Bell South for a price. The NSA says it used...
By Amy Goodman Democracy Now! Posted by Bulatlat.com ABC News reported on Monday that a senior federal law enforcement had revealed that the government is now tracking phone calls made by journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and ABC News. We speak...
NI REY TAMAYO, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Hindi tayo makatakas sa mga nakatutulig na pangungusap Mga mapang-usig at nakaririnding mga pangako Ng mga politikong bihasa sa maiinam na talumpati Na waring mga bulong na umaali-aligid sa ating kamalayan. Kung...
BY GO BON JUAN Posted by Bulatlat.com Little do Filipinos know that our own heroes and martyrs were among those who inspired the Chinese revolutionists and encouraged them to continue their struggle. The Chinese revolutionists, in turn, stoked in their Filipino...
BY JOHANN HEIN B. ARPON Bulatlat.com Emma Lapuz laments the fact that one year after the assassination of her husband, Rev. Edison Lapuz, conference minister of the North East Leyte Conference, United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP), the killers have yet...
BY JOHANN ARPON Bulatlat.com They were able to protect their picket line but the vendors of the Tacloban City market knows that it was a temporary victory and that they are in for a long struggle. Meanwhile, they have reconstructed their picket line and candles...
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com The Kalinga provincial section of the Cordillera People’s Democratic Front (CPDF), a regional organization under the umbrella of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), announced that they will...
BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com The International Hydropower Association , an international non-government organization (NGO) based in the United Kingdom, urged the Department of National Defense (DND) to extend protection to leaders of the...
BY LYN V. RAMO, NORDIS Bulatlat.com In another display of people’s unity, indigenous peasant communities and advocates from the middle sector in Kalinga province banded together to put a stop to all corporate mining activities in the province. TABUK, Kalinga (330...
PHOTOS BY AYA SANTOS TEXT BY DEE AYROSO Bulatlat.com They came together with one thing in mind: justice for their kin. The names were written in white letters on 10 pieces of black tarpaulin. Hanging from steel bars, the tarp looked like gravestones in the middle...
BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat.com This coming school year, students and their parents will have to face another round of tuition fee increases. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) issued Memorandum No. 14 allowing private schools and universities to raise tuition by...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com For Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Teddy Casiño, there is indeed space for progressive groups in the electoral and parliamentary arena, but it is now constricting. “It is getting smaller and smaller because the Arroyo...
BY DABET CASTANEDA Bulatlat.com Of the 601 victims of political killings in the last five years, many were felled by motorcycle-riding assasins. The Armed Forces of the Philippines claims a “purge” within the revolutionary movement is to be blamed. But human rights...
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