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BY THE KILUSANG MAYO UNO (KMU or May First Movement Labor Centre) DEMOCRATIC SPACE Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 31, September 7-13, 2008 As freedom and justice-seeking workers and trade unionists in the Philippines, we declare our complete opposition to the...
A leaked version of last month's draft of the proposed US-Iraq status of forces agreement (SOFA) suggests that the Iraqi parliament may not be consulted before it is signed, despite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's promises to do so. The pact would govern the...
Dr. Ayad Allawi, the former interim Iraqi prime minister previously referred to even by US Congress members as a "Bush puppet," voiced his strong support for a US withdrawal timeline during a Wednesday Congressional hearing. BY MAYA SCHENWAR, T r u t h o u t Posted...
Apart from the issues of custody arising from the Subic Rape case, Bayan said that it also plans to question the “duration and scope of the seemingly permanent presence of US troops in Mindanao.” Bulatlat.com Vol. VIII, No. 31, September 7-13, 2008 The umbrella...
Even as the Philippine government and the World Bank (WB), entered into a new agreement to review operations and mechanisms in implementing development programs as an attempt to enhance the current set of “readiness filters” in the programming of development...
The recently-implemented Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (IJEPA) promised increased exports to Japan. But as the IJEPA went into effect in July, Indonesian Industry Minister Fahmi Idris said that Indonesia’s main exports, such as agricultural...
At least ten Baguio City officials will be undergoing lifestyle checks by the Office of the Ombudsman. Without disclosing their identities, the Civil Service Commission(CSC)-Baguio has accordingly forwarded to the Ombudsman for Luzon the papers of the ten city...
Government hospitals are presently undergoing systems overhauls amid mounting dissatisfaction that the Health Department is itself acknowledging. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 32, September 14-20, 2008 BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of Manila) -...
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas criticized the National Food Authority for increasing rice prices at a time when the poor could hardly cope with the crisis. The KMP said that the NFA’s move to limit access to the P18.25 per kilo rice is nothing more than a...
The existence of the headquarters for the US-headed Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines in Camp Navarro, the camp of the AFP’s Western Mindanao Command in Zamboanga City, speaks a mouthful about the “semi-continuous” presence of the US military in the...
The urgency for real transparency in the domestic oil industry remains despite the recent rollback in oil prices, and vital information needs to be disclosed for the public to be assured that the monopolized domestic oil industry is not profiting at their expense....
Bulatlat.com September 8, 2008 – 1:27p.m. The peasant group that exposed the P728-million fertilizer scam slammed Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez for ‘protecting former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn ‘Jocjoc’ Bolante.’ Danilo Ramos, secretary general of the...
BY BULATLAT September 11, 2008 - 1:47 p.m. Detained Pastor Berlin Guerrero was ordered released to the custody of his lawyers this morning by the Court of Appeals (CA). A United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) pastor, Guerrero was abducted May 27, 2007...
BY BULATLAT September 12, 2008 - 2:38 p.m. A former dean of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law called the exchange of notes between the Philippine and Japanese diplomats regarding the controversial economic agreement 'a derogation of the...
NI VIJAE ALQUISOLA Inilathala ng Bulatlat Volume VIII, Number 32, September 14-20, 2008 Tinawag kang ama ng himagsikan ng aking mga aklat sa elementarya na may ilang punit at pilas na pahina. ipinagpatayo ka ng rebulto, Andres, upang di malimot ang ‘yong...
The tribal council of the South, the Kusog sa Katawhang Lumad sa Mindanao or Kalumaran, has issued a unity statement saying that they support the Bangsamoro cause for self-determination and ancestral lands but doubt the real motives of the national government in...
Sa bigat ng papasanin ng kultural na imperialismo-kahit pa ang imahen ay ang maligayang tagabuhat at kargador-ay hindi nakakasapat ang pagplantsa ng subersyon sa pang-araw-araw. Kinakailangan ng mas masaklaw na politikal na pagsusuri bilang tunay na kahandaan sa...
Though they were literally in the dark for about half of the program, the audience and participants were determined not to spoil the mood. The activity after all was a celebration for the recent release of the “Tagaytay 5”. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO CULTURE...
As the American campaign against suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal areas seemed to intensify on Friday, two missiles fired from remotely piloted American aircraft killed 12 people on Friday in an attack on a village compound in North...
Youth organizations have been targets of the government’s counter-insurgency campaign. Besides killings and enforced disappearances, other forms of political repression are hurled against young activists. BY JEFFREY OCAMPO HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Contributed to...
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