By Le Monde Editorial Posted by Bulatlat.com Defenders of human rights in the United States and elsewhere may rejoice over the speech George Bush pronounced Wednesday, September 6. The American president acknowledged the existence of “secret prisons,” in which the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) locked up proven or presumed terrorists outside the United States, in…
Day: September 23, 2006
9/11: Katrina Started at Ground Zero
By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz Posted by Bulatlat.com Nothing else worked that day. The President was flying haplessly around the country looking distinctly unpresidential; the Vice President was in a bunkered panic. The military couldn’t scramble armed jets and anything else that could go wrong did. But one thing worked, and it worked splendidly…
Bush’s Plan Allows Coerced Evidence
By Maura Reynolds, Richard B. Schmitt and David G. Savage The Los Angeles Times Posted by Bulatlat Convictions could also be based on material unseen by the accused. The Senate may object. Washington — President Bush asked Congress Wednesday to approve a new system of military-style justice for terrorism suspects that would, for the first…
The Fallen Still Stand with Us
BY MALAYA AREVALO Posted by Bulatlat.com there is a whisper of memories rising in the fields, the earth wet, warm with tears, names rambling in the shivering hollow of bullet shells, something is certainly swelling, the furious stirring of want, the clamoring grumble of discontent, we the farmers and workers; landless and displaced; widowed and…
Por Dios por Santo (Por Dies Porsiyento)
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Por dios por santo naman, Ano na ba’ng nangyayari sa ating bayan? Ganito na lamang, ganire na lamang ang lamangan Kahit saang departamento ng pamahalaan. Ang sabi nila’y nangaglilingkod, Por dios por santo! himig nakalulugod.(At nakasusulasok!) Ang problema, lahat ng ahensiya… nangangungurakot… Lahat yata e por dies porsiyento! Ang…
Zap at Static
Habang nanonood ang mga tao sa kanilang mga telebisyon, bigla na lamang nag-zap sa tuldok ang mukha ni Marcos. At biglang naglabasan ang mga abong static, tila naglipanang gamu-gamo sa matimyas na tuldok na tumapos sa pagkapangulo ni Marcos. Ni Roland Tolentino Bulatlat.com Ang alaala ko sa deklarasyon ng martial law noong 1972 ay isang…
GMA’s Chacha: Recipe for Dictatorship
Because they have not the fear of God in them, we must try to instill at least the fear of the wrath of a people fed up with lies and of being screwed by their supposed leaders in broad daylight. Let us fight to stop GMA’s chacha in its tracks. BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Business World…
Ang Subic Rape Case: Tungo sa Paghusga sa Visiting Forces Agreement
Mula 1947 hanggang 1991, sa higit tatlong libong naiulat na krimeng nagawa ng mga hukbong Kano dito sa bansa, wala ni isang kaso ang umabot sa hukuman at nalitis at nakapaghatol laban sa mga nagkasalang sundalo ng Estados Unidos, kabilang na ang mga krimeng karumaldumal. Ni Roland G. Simbulan* Propesor sa Development Studies at Public…
An Analysis of China’s Capitalist Reform
China’s fast GDP growth has depleted its natural resources and damaged its environment. Workers and peasants in China have suffered. Even the fortunes of the “middle class” will fall. The rapidly growing protests to plant closings, land grabbing, wage and benefit cuts, and corrupt and abusive government officials can only intensify. By Prof. Pao-yu Ching…
Nursing Deans, UP Baguio Prof Decline Nomination to Nursing Board
Three nurses – two of them nursing deans and one a professor at UP Baguio – have declined nominations to the Board of Nursing (BoN), saying the nominations would not solve the nursing board scam and cure the ailing health care system. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Three…
Marcos Kin, Allies Still within Corridors of Power
Even as his relatives prepare to lay the remains of the deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos in their new-found final resting place for him in his hometown of Batac, Ilocos Norte, those who lorded it over during his 20-year rule are still within the corridors of power. Their former patron may be dead but their political…