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BY ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO (Bulatlat.com) Fight back! This was the call of the group National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), one of the country’s biggest groups of journalists, as it lamented government’s “lameduck” effort to curb the killings of...
BY ANN SCOTT TYSON Washington Post Staff Writer The Washington Post Posted by Bulatlat.com Senate Democrats impatient to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq will inject a new political dynamic into the debate over the war beginning today as they question the...
BY DENNIS ESPADA (Bulatlat.com) “Medyo bagong karanasan pero obligadong matutunan (It is a rather new experience and I’m obliged to learn it).” This was how 34-year-old poet Axel Alejandro Pinpin described his 30-day ordeal under police custody. “Medyo bagong...
BY DEE AYROSO (Bulatlat.com) It’s now mid-2006, and the killings and abductions, as well as the AFP and Malacañang’s lies have yet to stop. In March 1989, Honor Ayroso, then a 21-year-old leader of the League of Filipino Students, was abducted. That week, nine...
BY ANGEL AYALA (Bulatlat.com) In a recently-passed resolution, the Sorsogon provincial board stated that the political killings in the said province have already reached “horrific proportions” and that it has “sent fear” among Sorsogueños, “whose character were...
BY NORMAN SOLOMON Truthout.org Posted by Bulatlat.com The American media establishment has launched a major offensive against the option of withdrawing US troops from Iraq. In the latest media assault, right-wing outfits like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced last August 3 the upgrading of skills and knowledge of Filipino domestic helpers who want to work abroad so that they can become what she described as “supermaids.” The move is said to address the economic dislocation...
Coalition against the war formed, peace caravan held BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) advocates and their families, Filipino Muslims and Christians, and Lebanese nationals formed the Network Overseas Opposed to Wars of Aggression (No...
Filipino domestic helpers are jumping off buildings and houses to escape their employers and the war in Lebanon. But coming home to joblessness and poverty only pushes back overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to again work abroad, even if it means going to another...
4 JASIG holders missing A person who says he was abducted by military men and may have been a goner had he not escaped from his captors will be presented as a witness in one of three separate petitions for writ of habeas corpus filed by human rights lawyers before...
BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat.com Citizen complainants and leaders of various people’s organizations opposed efforts of pro-Arroyo legislators to kill the impeachment bid against Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. In a press conference this morning, Dr. Carol Araullo,...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN| Bulatlat.com A year after killing the first impeachment complaint, the House of Representative justice committee again dismissed the second impeachment rap against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for insufficiency in substance. Before the...
BY BULATLAT Bulatlat.com Six victims in three days. In a span of two days, four civilians in this region were felled by ski-masks wearing gunmen believed to be elements of the military’s death squad while two others were reported missing since Aug 14. At about 7:30...
Photo by Voltaire Domingo/ NPPA Images Bulatlat.com This is not a terrorist plot, but merely a process by which used liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanks are cleared of gas residues prior to reconditioning. A worker in a LPG factory in Valenzuela City puts a used...
By Flon Faurillo Bulatlat.com Involuntary disappearances, one of the cruelest forms of human rights violations, are becoming a cause for concern under the Arroyo administration. Even the Supreme Court has taken up the issue, in a number of cases ordering the...
Bulatlat.com On April 28, 2006, the writer Axel Alejandro Pinpin and four companions were abducted in Sungay village, Tagaytay City, by the Philippine National Police and charged with rebellion. Pinpin's companions, researchers Aristedes Sarmiento and Riel...
Bulatlat.com We church leaders, gathered here in Manila, July 12-16, 2006, represent churches throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and North America. We have been gathered here in prayer and for critical reflection on the way military,...
BY SHAWN GARCIA Party for Socialism and Liberation Bulatlat.com The World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda was suspended on July 24, 2006. The decision to halt the "Doha Round" of trade talks came after the major imperialist powers—the United States and...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Bulatlat.com Bayang ginawaran ng banal na halik, Apat na haligi'y hindi matutumba; Naisin man nilang lagim ay ihasik Sa lahat ng sulok at hangad mabura Ay di matutupad. Pagkat nakatitik Na ito sa bato't Banal na Bibliya. (Gulat din ang Hudyong...
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