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BY OMAR AL-IBADI Reuters Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGHDAD - Snipers held rooftop positions as masked Sunni Arab insurgents said they were gearing up for another open street battle with pro-government Shi'ite militiamen in Baghdad's Adhamiya district on Tuesday. The...
(Komunikasyon mula kay Mr. Laong-Laan, OFW, para kay Ka Crispin Beltran, bilanggo ng administrasyong Arroyo) “Bilang Commander-in-Chief, kontrolado ko’ng sitwasyon—” “Babala ko, babagsak ang buong bigat ng batas—“ Aruy ko po! Lumalaon bumubuti sumasama kaysa dati...
BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat The crisis facing thousands of survivors of a killer landslide that buried Barangay Guinsaugon in St. Bernard town, Southern Leyte more than three weeks ago refuses to rest. Despite concerted rescue and retrieval operations by the...
BY ABNER BOLOS GITNANG LUSON NEWS SERVICE Posted by Bulatlat Barangay Diteki, a forest village in San Luis, Aurora, has battled mining and logging companies for years, and the 49 Alta (an indigenous people’s group) families who live in this sitio are now bearing...
NI E. SAN JUAN, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com (Komunikasyon mula kay Mr. Laong-Laan, OFW, para kay Ka Crispin Beltran, bilanggo ng administrasyong Arroyo) “Bilang Commander-in-Chief, kontrolado ko’ng sitwasyon—” “Babala ko, babagsak ang buong bigat ng batas—“ Aruy...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com I Antigong prinsipyo’y di kayang igupo Minanang katulad sa lantay na ginto Nagbuwis nang buhay tumagas ay dugo Sa manghihimagsik na aming ninuno II Kaming proletaryo’y hahawak ng armas Ang pakikibaka’y tiyak sasambulat Sa...
NI LOLITO R. GO, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Si Kapitan na kilala rin sa bansag na Pipoy ay buong sigasig na rumonda upang ikampanya ang isang panukalang ni hindi niya naiintindihan Sa nagtitinda ng kikiam: Naiintindihan mo ba ang nakasulat dito? Hindi po. Hindi...
The Anti-Terrorism Bill, which the Macapagal-Arroyo administration is pushing for with support from the U.S., has been criticized by several sectors – including media groups – for containing a definition of “terrorism” so broad it may include even legal protest...
As lawyers haggle over the legality of the revocation of the stock distribution option in Hacienda Luisita, the farm workers continue to reap benefits from tilling the land and earn money from the on-going sugar cane harvest. By Abner Bolos Bulatlat.com As lawyers...
At an average of 70 centavos per kwh and a total sale of about 24 billion kwh, electricity users in the Meralco franchise area will be contributing to the government a total of P17 billion every year. The government collects additional billions from the more than...
Rebel spokesman Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal claims the New People’s Army (NPA) now has an equivalent of 27 battalions or roughly around 13, 500 regular fighters. These exclude members of barrio militia units or what Rosal describes as “peasants by day, NPA fighters...
Even as media killings remain unsolved and harassments continue, 13 more Filipino journalists were killed in 2005 and several instances of harassment and intimidation were recorded. BY JHONG DELA CRUZ Bulatlat.com As 2005 drew to a close, Filipino journalists...
The year 2005 is most likely one of the worst years in Bangsa Moro history. It was a year of false hopes for peace amid an escalation of a centuries-old strife. If anything, the year 2005 will be remembered as the year peace in Mindanao appeared near enough but was...
Various controversies plagued the agricultural sector in 2005 and peasants do not see an end in the immediate future. In fact, they are bracing for the worst in 2006. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Past surveys showed hardship among the poor in 2004 and signs of...
While President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may claim the economic problems did not begin with her administration, she cannot escape the fact that she is presiding over an economy that is not on a mere temporary downturn, as government claims, but in an ever worsening...
It is undeniable that OFW remittances have kept the ailing economy afloat. Labor migration, once a mere stop-gap measure to tide the economy over in the economic crunch of the ‘70s, has become a major government policy, with the local government units even...
The Arroyo administration belittles the movement working for her ouster as a small group of “destabilizers” and “power grabbers” that are unable to muster the numbers to mount a People Power uprising. But the Anti-Arroyo movement working for her resignation or...
Macapagal-Arroyo may have limped over the hump of thorns to her presidency but this institution that she represents has been badly battered too. The issue of electoral fraud and the worms of corruption and worst-ever unethical practices that it unearthed gave birth...
We in Bulatlat have chosen to welcome the New Year by looking back at those personalities who may be described, as far as we are concerned, as 2005 People of the Year. They are those who provided shining examples of courage or brilliance – or both – at a time that...
The past year saw workers struggle to keep their jobs in the wake of contractualization and globalization, and their unions in the face of government policies against unionism. The labor movement also lost two of its most courageous leaders – the union presidents...
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