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Instead of a "global war on terror", Washington should employ a "global counterinsurgency" strategy that focuses on global law enforcement, intelligence, and special operations. By Jim Lobe International Press Service (IPS) Sept. 27, 2006 Posted by Bulatlat.com...
By Will Dunham Reuters October 11, 2006 Posted By Bulatlat.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 655,000 Iraqis have died from the Iraq war, exceeding previous estimates, researchers said on Wednesday, but President George W. Bush called the findings not credible and a...
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...
The New Year does not promise 'more of the same': it will start with a major US military escalation in the Middle East but it will likely end with a greater military debacle, ensuring deepening political crises and increased economic instability both in the Middle...
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...
Having seen the country's major political pillars festering under the hands of the elite – the presidential office, Congress and the electoral system in particular – the bourgeois election will serve as an opportunity for broadening the masses' political...
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...
(Conclusion) Extrajudicial executions, meant to create terror among the populace, are main fare in U.S.-directed counterinsurgency strategies in Vietnam and El Salvador during the latter part of the 60s and early 80s respectively. It is now being seen with...
(Second of three parts) U.S. support for the Arroyo regime has been steady even when President Arroyo was deeply enmeshed in a crisis and was almost ousted in 2005. Its political support did not waiver even when President Arroyo declared a state of national...
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...
(First of three parts) Southeast Asia caught greater attention from the U.S. after the latter launched its “war on terror” in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Southeast Asia, most especially the Philippines, provided U.S. Pres....
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