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While most of Filipino farmers grapple with the increasing cost of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, farmers in Mayoyao, a town in Ifugao, favor organic rice farming. BY LYN RAMO REGIONS Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 22, July 6-12, 2008...
I saw Tirad Pass on my first visit in the summer of 2002. It reminds me of the Filipino war against the Americans and the sacrifice made by its youngest general in Philippine history – Gen. Gregorio del Pilar. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by...
Three overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia were arrested and allegedly tortured to force them to admit to a crime they did not commit. They have been sentenced to death by beheading. BY ANGIE DE LARA MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 22, July 6-12,...
Dito, tulad sa rehimen ni Arroyo, ang halinghing at iri ay sabayang nagsasaad ng pagbulwak ng at pagdisiplina sa bawal. Basta may pera, hindi nabubura, bagkus lalong tumitingkad, ang distinksyon ng bawal at hindi sa mundong ibabaw. NI ROLAND TOLENTINO KULTURANG...
Local officials of the province of Nueva Vizcaya dare to fight a mining giant. This is a stark contrast to the national government pledging full support for transnational mining corporations. BY BULATLAT Vol. VIII, No. 22, July 6-12, 2008 BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya...
With the rising cost of basic commodities coupled with the value-added tax (VAT), millions of overseas Filipino workers say goodbye to “Katas ng Saudi,” or big earnings from Saudi. BY BULATLAT MIGRANT WATCH Vol. VIII, No. 22, JULY 6-12, 2008 “No more ‘Katas ng...
“The war in Iraq has absolutely nothing to do with oil,” so we were told. It actually is about oil, all along. BY BILL MOYERS AND MICHAEL WINSHIP Truthout.org ALTERNATIVE READER Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 22, July 6-12, 2008 Oh no, they told us, Iraq isn't a...
"That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap ... The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet Union its...
The country’s present food crisis is a reflection of a bigger crisis, a visiting member of the House of Representatives told barangay captains at a forum in Baguio City last week. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 22, July 6-12,...
BULATLAT Posted 11:40 a.m., July 7, 2008 Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and allied organizations asserted that the G-8 Summit is but a “futile attempt to cover up the culpability of the United States and other imperialist countries in the escalating fuel and...
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Contributed to Bulatlat Posted 5:00 p.m., July 7, 2008 MAKATI CITY — Manila Auxiliary Bishop and National Rural Congress II (NRC II) vice-chair Broderick S. Pabillo fears that government doleouts on food and electricity for the urban poor...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Posted 9:35 a.m., July 8, 2008 The five political prisoners known as the Tagaytay 5 have protested the postponement of their first bail hearing, which was scheduled on July 4. They described the postponement as a “deliberate...
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Contributed to Bulatlat Posted 6:28 p.m., July 8, 2008 MAKATI CITY — Manila Auxiliary Bishop and Episcopal Commission on Social Action, Justice and Peace , Broderick Pabillo, D.D., grilled a Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) official...
While the Big Three oil firms in the Philippines claim losses due to under-recoveries, their mother companies abroad continue to report record billions in profits, according to independent-think tank IBON Foundation. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII,...
Last Thursday, July 10, students from various colleges and universities marched towards Morayta to hold a program culminating the day’s events, which they dubbed as National Youth Action Day. The day began with simultaneous walkouts and programs in all...
As part of the campaign against off-shore mining, a top official of the militant fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Pamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) personally wrote Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd requesting the Australian premier to...
An Outsider’s View of the University of the Philippines delivered as part of the UP Centennial Lecture Series on July 10, 2008 at the NISMED, UP Diliman “…the University can maintain its social relevance only by continuously taking part in the dynamics of the...
There is a growing clamor for the removal of the VAT on petroleum products to ease local prices, especially since it adds from P4 to P6 peso to pump prices. Just recently, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines echoed the same demand. But the Arroyo...
As Ingrid Betancourt emerged after six-and-a-half years- sunken and shriveled but radiant with courage – one of the first people she thanked was Hugo Chavez. What? If you follow the news coverage, you have been told that the Venezuelan President supports the Farc...
After OFWs were summarily rounded up, detained and forcibly deported in Sabah, Malaysia and in Saudi Arabia, now it’s the OFWs in South Korea who are being chased, manhandled, and are languishing in detention cells. To fulfill their monthly quota of 3,000...
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