BY EDEL GARCELLANO Bulatlat.com Of course, I’ll commend him. She rehearses the lines before the invisible crowd inside her head, repeating the words to make them real, authentic, smooth like silk. He’s my General. A smile breaks on her impassive face. You can do your worse: I take it as a game. The sudden burst…
Day: August 5, 2006
Returning OFWs from Lebanon: Faces of Distress, Cries of Desperation
The joy and relief of Filipinos returning from Lebanon quickly turns to feelings of distress as they remember the hardships they endured abroad and realize the anxiety of being jobless in the Philippines. Seeing their distressed faces and hearing their cries, one would easily see the desperation that has compelled Filipinos to face so many…
Weathering Two Storms
The protesters of July 24, when President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivered her State of the Nation Address (SoNA) this year, faced two storms. PHOTOS BY AUBREY MAKILAN TEXT BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com *PICTURE The protesters of July 24, when President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivered her State of the Nation Address (SoNA) for this year, faced two…
Strong Peso Fails to Benefit Consumers
A strong peso is supposed to benefit consumers through lower prices of goods and services. Why is this not the case at this point? BY DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Bulatlat.com In the first quarter of this year, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo stressed that the people can benefit from a strong peso through lower prices of goods and…
LGU Pursues Case vs. Marcopper’s New Owners
The battle of the people of Marinduque to seek compensation for the damage created by Marcopper Mining Corporation, which was then owned by Placer Dome Inc., took a new turn as another corporation, Barrick Gold Corporation, took over. BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat.com The battle of the people of Marinduque to seek compensation for the damage…
Canadian Church Calls on UN to Investigate Political Killings
The United Church of Canada (UCC) called on the United Nations to investigate the unabated political killings in the Philippines. Outraged by the assassination of five members and staff of its Philippine partners in a six-week period, the UCC called on the Canadian government and the United Nations “to take strong steps to end the…
Three years after Oakwood Mutiny: Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?
Three years ago on July 27, about 300 young soldiers from the Army and the Navy – among them 70 junior officers including two honor graduates of Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class 1995 – stormed Oakwood Premier, a luxury hotel in Makati City, armed with high-powered guns and explosives. Three years after the uprising –…
Only 3,400 of OFWs in Lebanon Could Come Home
No gov’t plan for those in Israel, other ME countries A migrant group bares that only 3,400 out of the 34,000 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Lebanon will be repatriated by the Philippine government. Worse, it has no crisis management plan in case the war escalates in the Middle East region. BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat.com…
Mad Dogs Ravage Lebanon
BY JAMES PETRAS Bulatlat.com “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.”(General Moshe Dayan, Former Israeli Defense Minister) “Army Chief Dan Halutz has given the order to the air force to destroy 10 multi-story buildings in the Dahaya district (of Beirut) in response to every rocket fired at Haifa.” (Israeli Army Radio,…
`Selling’ the War
Photo by Nicanor Segovia Bulatlat.com An African-American, a veteran of the Vietnam War, starkly looks at the camera as he mans a booth selling souvenir military patches and insignias. The booth is conveniently located near Washington, DC’s Vietnam War Memorial – a long stretch of polished black granite wall that inscribes the names of 58,209…
MERALCO: Emerging Power Monopoly
BY PETE L. ILAGAN THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS FOR REFORMS, INC. (NASECORE) Bulatlat.com This is to support and echo Socio-Economic Planning Sec. Romulo Neri’s warning of an emerging monopoly in power generation, which immediately drew sharp criticism from MERALCO. After the adoption of a watered-down cross-ownership limit in the present Electric Power Industry…