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 CITY – A facilitator of the Social Science Educators Circle (Seedcore)…
Day: September 9, 2006
Melo Commission – No Surprises
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 media and activist killings” headed by former Supreme Court Justice Jose Melo, has been met with much skepticism, if…
Fisherfolk Snatched on International Day of the Disappeared
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, as her husband remains missing. By JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com A fisherfolk couple…
Claver Ambushers’ Faces Sketched as Outrage Mounts vs Killings
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 cartographic sketches of two men who witnesses say served as triggerman and lookout respectively in the July…
13th militant leader killed in Negros: NFSW Organizer Shot Dead by Ski-masked Assassins
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. Bargamento, a member of National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), was driving…
Palparan’s Legacy in CL: Lives Disrupted, Reign of Fear
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 known after all the…
Philippines’ Compliance with UN Reporting Tasks Poor, Says AI
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 Bulatlat.com It does not look good. This was how the Southeast Asia Team of the…
ASEAN Deal with U.S. Disastrous to Economy, IBON Warns
“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 Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will sooner or later lead to a free trade agreement (FTA), and this will prove…
The Melo Probe: Gloria’s Latest Fraud?
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 Bobby Tuazon Bulatlat.com Being toothless and seemingly beholden to the President,…
Liberalizing the Philippine Media: Pros and Cons
We have gone this far holding mass media as our own, having our trusty old watchdog, though limping and perhaps infested with fleas, bite the hands off dictators and dishonest leaders. Why let a strange collie, no matter how attractive it is, do the gate keeping? By ROANNE DURAN Contributed to Bulatlat.com The ownership and…
New Media, Propaganda Make Review Board Irrelevant
While the new media necessitates the rethinking of the current practice of review and classification in television and film, what proves to be more important at this point is to expose how the current administration resorts to de facto censorship of contrary views through agencies like the MTRCB. By DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Bulatlat.com Review and…