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BY BULATLAT Posted 5:10 p.m., Sept. 13, 2006 Belgian, Dutch, and Filipino protesters, numbering about 100, gathered at the Schuman plaza fronting the European Commission building, September 12, to denounce Philippine Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Armed Forces...
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:00 p.m. , Sept. 15, 2006 The reign of terror continues in Central Luzon even with the retirement of Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, former commanding officer of the 7th Infantry Division based in the region. At about 1:30 this afternoon, Nelson...
You’d think an animal as big as a horse would not fit into a tricycle. But a real horse this is, and as though to prove the point it slightly peeps out from the moving vehicle. Not only did the guy succeed in putting the horse into the tricycle: he did so in such a...
By Flon Faurillo / Bulatlat The Melo Commission, formed purportedly to probe the spate of extra-judicial killings under the Arroyo administration, takes pains to present itself as an independent body. Retired Supreme Court Justice Jose Melo, who heads the...
BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Posted by Bulatlat GENEVA — UN human rights experts saw torture, Military prisons and deprivation of civil liberties rear their ugly head in the post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism drive, including in the very countries where they least expected to...
BY SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL Salon.com Posted by Bulatlat The National Security Agency is providing signal intelligence to Israel to monitor whether Syria and Iran are supplying new armaments to Hezbollah as it fires hundreds of missiles into northern Israel, according to...
BY JOHN MUELLER Foreign Affairs Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has been neither a successful strike nor a close call in the United States since 9/11. The reasonable -- but rarely heard -- explanation is that there...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Ang mahinang bulong ng gulong ng alon, Inyong ulinigin at bigyang-halaga. “May kipkip na sungit ang bagong panahon… Kailan titigil ang hampas-daluyong Na laging mabagsik ang dalang parusa?” Ang mahinang bulong ng gulong ng...
NI AXEL PINPIN Inilathala ng Bulatlat Planado at tiyak nang simulan nilang hukayin ang libingan nilang magiging mga martir. Rigodon na nga sila at di magkamayaw upang ipagyabang sa ‘yo, Jovi, ang di nila pag-ayaw sa handog mong kamatayang walang hanggan. At...
Is it so difficult to see that the scandalous extent and circumstances of the recent board exam leakage is in direct proportion to the degree of commercialization of nursing education as exemplified by the proliferation of substandard nursing schools churning out...
In Baguio, the influx of Korean nationals has caught some attention. Baguio now is host to almost 10,000 Koreans. At first, only teenagers came here to study the English language. Most of them stayed for two months during their vacation from school in Korea. Then...
The local and regional chapters of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) condemned the ambush that killed a Commission on Elections (Comelec) official in Apayao on Thursday, Sept. 7, even as the Comelec regional director moved to coordinate with the police to...
‘The teeming seas gave a fisherman’s family a daily livelihood of PhP600 ($11.88) until the oil crept into their coastal village and changed their lives overnight. "Where do we go from here?" he cried. BY JR NEREUS ACOSTA Contributed to Bulatlat.com Aboard a Coast...
More than the reported 5.5 percent growth in the local output, statistics on wages are more reflective of the economic situation. It would do well for government to address the fundamental problems besetting the poor instead of spreading misguided optimism just to...
Overseas Filipino workers are dubbed as “modern-day heroes” by government. Rightly so, because their remittances prop up the economy by bringing in the much-needed dollars and stimulating domestic consumer spending. They are also “modern-day heroes” because they...
Overseas Filipino workers are dubbed as “modern-day heroes” by government. Rightly so, because their remittances prop up the economy by bringing in the much-needed dollars and stimulating domestic consumer spending. They are also “modern-day heroes” because they...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR), Karapatan, an alliance of human rights organizations, and groups of human rights lawyers agree that the Melo Commission merely duplicates the functions of the CHR. They also believe that the Melo commission’s probe will amount...
Overseas Filipino workers are dubbed as “modern-day heroes” by government. Rightly so, because their remittances prop up the economy by bringing in the much-needed dollars and stimulating domestic consumer spending. They are also “modern-day heroes” because they...
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