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BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com The International Hydropower Association , an international non-government organization (NGO) based in the United Kingdom, urged the Department of National Defense (DND) to extend protection to leaders of the...
BY LYN V. RAMO, NORDIS Bulatlat.com In another display of people’s unity, indigenous peasant communities and advocates from the middle sector in Kalinga province banded together to put a stop to all corporate mining activities in the province. TABUK, Kalinga (330...
PHOTOS BY AYA SANTOS TEXT BY DEE AYROSO Bulatlat.com They came together with one thing in mind: justice for their kin. The names were written in white letters on 10 pieces of black tarpaulin. Hanging from steel bars, the tarp looked like gravestones in the middle...
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 JUN VERZOLA NORTHERN DISPATCH Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Dr. Constancio “Chandu” Claver, chairperson of the Kalinga chapter of Bayan Muna was seriously wounded and his wife Alice Omengan Claver killed in an ambush by two gunmen at 6:45 am this morning in...
After Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia, the Philippines will only be the third country in history to be the subject of a session twice by the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT). In 1980, the PPT convened a Session on the Philippines and found the Marcos...
1 missing since July 28 BY BULATLAT Bulatlat.com Three activists were killed in the last 24 hours in the regions of Northern and Central Luzon and Sorsogon province, the three priority areas of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s all-out-war policy. Dr. Chandu...
BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com Defense lawyers of the so-called ‘Batasan 6’ militant lawmakers today asked a Makati regional trial court to suspend the hearing of rebellion charges against the six, and to first pursue probable cause for the charges. The Batasan 6...
BY GITNANG LUZON NEWS SERVICE Bulatlat.com The Philippine Army issued on Saturday, November 4, shoot-to-kill order on Maximo Ayunga, village council member in Barangay Culong, Guimba, Nueva Ecija and chairperson of the Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luzon-Nueva...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Family members of nine missing persons filed a motion for writ of habeas corpus before the Supreme Court this morning. Among the relatives who filed the case were families of missing persons Prudencio Calubid, Rudy and Gabriel Calubad,...
Photo by Nicanor Segovia Bulatlat.com An African-American, a veteran of the Vietnam War, starkly looks at the camera as he mans a booth selling souvenir military patches and insignias. The booth is conveniently located near Washington, DC's Vietnam War Memorial – a...
By Johann Hein B. Arpon Bulatlat.com A death squad in Eastern Samar claimed another victim with the brutal murder of Rodrigo Catayong, PhD., 55 years old, chairperson of KARAPATAN-Eastern Samar yesterday morning just in front of the McArthur, E. Samar Catholic...
BY AMANDA GUMILA I am Amanda Gumila (amanduh_999@yahoo.com), a 2nd year college student. This is my opinion regarding the overpopulation crisis our country is currently experiencing. One does not need to be presented with results of scientific studies or with...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Pastor Billy Austin, chairperson of the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance or Bayan) Ilocos chapter, was shot by still unidentified men around 9 p.m. last night in Vigan City (407kms north of Manila). Austin was...
BY PETE L. ILAGAN THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS FOR REFORMS, INC. (NASECORE) Bulatlat.com This is to support and echo Socio-Economic Planning Sec. Romulo Neri's warning of an emerging monopoly in power generation, which immediately drew sharp...
By the Artists for the Removal of Gloria (ARREST Gloria) Bulatlat.com The country was at a standstill when Manny Pacquiao traded blows with Oscar Larios at the Araneta Coliseum last July 2. More than half the country was glued to TV sets, and even the churches...
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...
BY JAMES PETRAS Bulatlat.com "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."(General Moshe Dayan, Former Israeli Defense Minister) "Army Chief Dan Halutz has given the order to the air force to destroy 10 multi-story buildings in the Dahaya district (of...
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