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They came back, not in the thousands as they did when the massacre occurred two years ago, but with the same fervor to continue their struggle for land and justice in Hacienda Luisita. BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luzon News Service Posted by Bulatlat.com TARLAC CITY -...
Andy Pawecan, a licentiate pastor of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) slain in Nueva Ecija last May, was last seen by witnesses being held by soldiers. The killing of Pawecan is one of several cases to be heard in March next year by the...
The President wants media organizations to be subjective in their reports, insisting that the “good news” must be given due prominence. BY DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Bulatlat.com President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo this week chided media practitioners for not giving due...
Nicole’s case is not just rape. It is also a case against the presence of U.S. troops in the country, a violation of our sovereignty. It is not only Nicole’s dignity which has been violated. The Filipino people’s dignity is also trampled upon whenever U.S. troops...
Health workers and union representatives of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, Philippine Heart Center, Lung Center of the Philippines, the Philippine Children’s Medical Center and the East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC), which will be affected by the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Not a meaningless touch, the "pat on the back" women artists gave each other at the conclusion of the recently held First Northern Luzon Women Visual Artists' Conference-Workshop leaves an indelible (re)birthmark, to remind them of their rebirthing experience. BY...
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...
“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. BY DENNIS ESPADA (Bulatlat.com) “Medyo bagong...
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...
US military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan will average 44 percent more in the current fiscal year than in 2005, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said. BY JEFF BLISS Bloomberg.com Posted by Bulatlat US military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan will...
With the resurrection of one of a series of decrees denounced by civil libertarians as “repressive” and declared by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may next declare martial law. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com...
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