By Flon Faurillo / Bulatlat Petron and the Sunshine Maritime Development Corporation are pointing fingers at each other on who should be accountable for the oil spill in Guimaras, even as both should be bearing responsibility – having entered into a contract. The...
Closing statement of the 6th Human Rights Folk School of the Asian Human Rights Commission BY THE ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Posted by Bulatlat.com The 6th Human Rights Folks School of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was held in Hong Kong from 21 to 26...
BY THE ORDER OF CARMELITES Posted by Bulatlat.com Pope Benedict XVI “Hear me, you who know justice, you people who have my teaching at heart: Fear not the reproach of men, be not dismayed at their insults.” (Isaiah 51:7) We, the members of the Carmelite Family...
BY THE COUNSELS FOR THE DEFENSE OF LIBERTIES (CODAL) Posted by Bulatlat.com CODAL condemns the Commission on Election for colluding with Sigaw ng Bayan, a party to a petition before it, to railroad the approval for a people’s initiative by taking the hypocritical...
Draconian surveillance, identification, behavior modification measures being implemented right outside your door By Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Posted by Bulatlat.com Escalating security measures, body scans, lie detector tests and behavior analysis now...
The criminal frame-up of young Muslim-South Asian British citizens by the British security officials was specifically designed to cover up for the failed Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the Anglo-American backing for Israel's destructive but failed invasion of...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Hindi ko maisip kung anong balangkas ang maiaambag Tungkol sa tubigang hinaplos ng lapot ang banigang lawak; Mula nang lumubog ang M/T Solar One sa laot Guimaras Tila ba napudpod, naubos ang laman ng aking panulat. Ayaw...
Fifteen overseas Filipino workers are seeking the help of Migrante-Metro Baguio for repatriation, after being locked up by the Annasban Recruitment Contractors for protesting unfair labor practices. By Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Fifteen...
Some 29.2 million kilos of assorted vegetables flooded the local market from April to July this year. The farm imports came from China, India, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the U.S. By Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com LA...
A La Salle professor said the killing of the impeachment case against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was inevitable because it was part of the whole design of Malacañang to keep the president in power up to 2010 and beyond. BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat.com BACOLOD...
The Melo Commission, in marked contrast to the Palace hype, is widely perceived to be neither powerful, credible nor independent. By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Malacañang's creation of a supposedly "independent commission to address...
A fisherfolk couple from Hagonoy, Bulacan was abducted on August 30, the same day that cause-oriented groups commemorated the United Nations (UN)-declared International Day of the Disappeared. That the wife was released a day after is not a consolation in any way,...
Various sectors in the Cordillera continue to join the nationwide outcry against the series of political killings, for which they hold government security forces responsible. By Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Police released on Wednesday...
By Karl G. Ombion Bulatlat.com BACOLOD City – In an isolated highway of Hacienda Emma, Barangay (village) Manapla town, more than 50 kms north of this city, two motorcycle-riding men in ski masks blocked and shot Sanito Bargamento at around 3:15 p.m. Friday....
Even if controversial Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan is set to retire on September 11, residents of Central Luzon are still gripped in fear. They said that Palparan has failed in what he has set out to do and that the full extent of the damage he has done may only be...
It does not look good. This was how the Southeast Asia Team of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International (AI) assessed the Philippines’ record on reporting obligations to United Nations (UN) treaty bodies. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO...
"Governments that forsake control over the domestic economy betray their poor farmers, workers and small and medium businesses." Posted by Bulatlat.com The recently-signed trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA) between the U.S. and the Association of...
With the Melo Commission just a phony, the President exonerating the AFP from any involvement in the extra-judicial killings and the CHR in limbo with regards its own investigation, whom will the families of the victims of political murders turn to for justice? By...
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