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Para sa mga tunay na traydor at kaaway, kailangan ang eskapismo para mabigyan ng maling konsepto ng pagkakaisa ang mamamayan at mapanatili sila sa kapangyarihan. At dahil nagagamit si Pacquiao at ang kanyang mga laban ay nagiging instrumento ng pambansang...
BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat SPECIAL REPORT Vol. VIII, No. 8, March 30-April 5, 2008 Amid recent reports of another impending rice crisis, a local university-based agricultural economist said he is not surprised by the reports because “there has been a prolonged and...
On the second day of the five-day search for two missing youths Romulo Robiños and Ryan Supan in military camps, soldiers denied the families and rights groups entry to what the military calls a “sacred place,” a forested area beside the office of the Commanding...
For 15 years, the alleged killer of human rights worker Cris Batan has evaded arrest. But it is not because he is nowhere to be found. In fact, the accused killer Mathew B. Fanao is Barangay (village) captain of the village of Betwagan in Sadanga, Mountain...
Lilette Fatima Raquel, 30, was petite, always giggling, (smiling even in her death) but described as an inquisitive and serious student who kept on asking questions and was not contented with classroom lessons: she learned more in the streets and with the people...
BY BULATLAT Posted 3:50 p.m., July 2, 2008 Gabriela Women's Party (GWP) representatives filed Tuesday a resolution calling on Congress to investigate the transport of 10,000kgs of the toxic pesticide Endosulfan in the ill-fated MV Princess of the Stars. Reps. Liza...
BY BULATLAT Posted 12:20 p.m., July 3, 2008 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) expressed outrage at the murder of Philippines news correspondent and radio host Bert Sison in Sariaya, Quezon, 100 km southeast of the...
BY BULATLAT Posted 2:25 p.m., July 4, 2008 After South African Leader Nelson Mandela was dropped off from the United States immigration watchlist of possible terrorists, an activist group called on the US government to eliminate Prof. Jose Maria Sison from the...
The arrest and investigation of media practitioners who covered the Manila Peninsula incident by the police were justified, said a Makati regional trial court judge. He even said that journalists were “so lucky for not being charged with criminal cases.” Media...
More than one month after Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced a moratorium on tuition and other fee increases, students in four of Metro Manila’s state universities and colleges (SUCs) have not received any refund yet from tuition and other fee hikes. The rising...
Since it came to power more than seven years ago, the Arroyo administration has, among other feats, earned the distinction of bringing down the elementary school level participation rate to a 16-year low. The secondary school participation rate, meanwhile, has...
A congressman has said the government’s rice importations supposedly meant to solve the food crisis are but stop-gap measures and are evidence of “sheer neglect of the country’s agriculture.” BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 22,...
The unabated killings of journalists and the power that local political warlords continue to wield in the provinces; the continuous pressures exerted by the Arroyo administration on the media; the serious implications of the decision of the Makati Regional Trial...
While the Arroyo administration celebrated July 4 as Filipino-American Friendship Day, Filipino activists showed their indignation to the “continuing relations between a master and a slave.” By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 22, July 6-12, 2008 Members of...
Putting the imperatives of the elite-dominated state supreme over the fundamental rights of the people is a dangerous doctrine. In interpreting the law, the court's mandate is to be on the side of basic rights – expand them if need be – and make justice more...
After more than two years of being abducted and detained, the Tagaytay 5 finally had their day in court as the latter started hearing their petition for bail. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 22, July 6-12, 2008 The Tagaytay...
Elizabeth Principe, currently detained on charges of rebellion, wants a reinvestigation of her case. Her husband, meanwhile, remains missing after being abducted in February 2007. BY JOAN GARCIA HUMAN RIGHTS Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 22, July 6-12, 2008 Candon City,...
Labindalawang taon na ang nakaraan mula nang ipatupad ang deregulasyon sa downstream oil industry at ang tanging positibong ibinunga nito ay ang mas malaking tubo mula sa mga kompanya ng langis at mas malaking koleksiyon ng pamahalaan sa pamamagitan ng buwis. NI...
A historic event worthy of the Guinness Book of World Records may have occurred in Washington in the last week of June. The worst "torture" president that the United States has ever had met the most corrupt and brutal president ever inflicted on the Filipino...
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...
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