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The impending implementation of the National ID System after a Supreme Court ruling upholding its constitutionality will be a major setback for civil liberties according Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) secretary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr, one of the...
BY DENNIS ANDREW AGUINALDO Posted by Bulatlat Friday is a fear of weekends, The shadows of monuments, Stones, Sticks. Shield against a Saturday! Water down a rising Sunday. Next week could be different. A next Week? Could be more than seven days....
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Posted 8:55 p.m., Dec. 3, 2006 “Ensuring justice for our aggrieved fellow Filipino should come first before what President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo perceives as good relations between the Philippines and the U.S.” This was...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Balana’y tahimik sa nayon. Ampiyas ng ulan, nag-alon. Ragasang nanaog, gumulong. Yugto ng wakas, bumangon. Olimpong sambulat, dagundong! Gumuho ang lupa sa bundok, Unahang tumabon. Nasadlak Itong walang muwang, nalito Na ang...
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 2:45 p.m., Dec. 4, 2006 After more than a year of Nicole’s ordeal, Judge Benjamin Pozon of Branch 139 of the Makati Regional Trial Court found Lance Corporal Daniel Smith guilty of raping Nicole; sentenced him to reclusion perpetua; and...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Posted 6:25 p.m., Dec. 4, 2006 The victory is only partial, as the decision falls short of what the verdict should have been. This was how the leaders of the militant groups that rallied outside the Makati Regional Trial...
BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com There are clumsy attempts to create a bandwagon effect by mobilizing the pro-GMA local government officials to manufacture millions of bogus voters’ signatures; by creating media hype through paid hacks...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat.com Posted 8:05 p.m., Dec. 4, 2006 Just after the promulgation of the decision on the controversial Subic rape case, residents were waiting outside the Makati City Jail where Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith was supposed to be temporarily...
A tragic incident similar to what happened in Leyte way back in 1991 (the Ormoc flashflood that swept about 6,000 individuals) and in 2003 (the San Francisco landslide that killed 133 people) took place last Feb. 17, this time in St. Bernard town, same province....
BY CHERYL DAYTEC-YAÑGOT Posted by Bulatlat.com We were born rich in an abundant land. Then they saw us and all of a sudden We were invisible. They did not see us When they came to vandalize the burial grounds of our ancestors to herald the fabrication of...
Ang sa susunod na henerasyon? Ano ang kanilang magiging claim sa pagiging bayani? Lahat halos ng dekada ay minamarkahan ng kasaysayan ng hamon – batas militar at diktadura ng 1970s, People Power ng 1980s, EDSA Dos ng 2000s. Kabataang Filipino, ano na? NI ROLAND...
The author interviews Jose Maria Sison to see if there is something human about a so-called “terrorist” who is considered legendary or notorious, depending on one’s beliefs. BY RUDY D. LIPORADA Contributed to Bulatlat.com In 2005, I went to Europe for a month-long...
By Bayan International Posted by Bulatlat The present human rights situation in the Philippines worsened as the Arroyo government, beset with a severe economic and political crisis, intensified its repression and use of state terror against the people and the...
Retrieving the dead to give them decent burial has become extra painful for families, especially if one is an armed dissident in Quezon, a province now battered by escalated combat operations by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against the communist-led...
Our country is in dire need of doctors for the people. The starkest indicator of this dilemma is the state of community medicine practice in the country and likewise the dwindling number of community physicians. BY PHILIP PARAAN Bulatlat.com Our country is in dire...
On the 20th anniversary of the EDSA I uprising which booted out the Marcos dictatorship, former Presidents Corazon Aquino and Fidel Ramos and Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile are all expected to be in a celebratory mood though they may not necessarily want to be seen side by...
BY PINK-JEAN FANGON MELEGRITO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com Everyone who closely follows literature in Filipino knows Jun Cruz Reyes, novelist and short story writer. He is also a painter, photographer, and filmmaker – but he is primarily known as a...
Donning white blazers, many doctors stay in air-conditioned clinics serving well-off patients. Some work abroad for higher financial rewards. There are even those who trade their blazers for nurse’s uniforms just to be able to seek employment abroad and bring their...
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