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POSTS FOR "Month: January 2009"
Bailouts & Sellouts

Bailouts & Sellouts

It is amazing to see sums now running into the trillions being allocated almost entirely to substantial market players, many of whom were heavily involved in producing the financial debacle we are now suffering. The priorities of the U.S. establishment, including...

Economic Exploitation

Economic Exploitation

Since the occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel has used its military rule to the advantage of Israeli corporations and economic interests, many times to the detriment of the Palestinian economy under its control. BY WHO PROFITS Exposing the...

Obama and the Oddsmakers

Obama and the Oddsmakers

A betting man, the morning after Obama’s inauguration, would surely have found odds-on stakes that the new president’s first daring cavalry charge would be an assault on the economic crisis, worsening day by day. Our Wednesday-morning gambler would have found much...

10.7 M Jobless Filipinos in 2008: Record Joblessness Among Arroyo Government’s Greatest Failures

10.7 M Jobless Filipinos in 2008: Record Joblessness Among Arroyo Government’s Greatest Failures

The Philippines’ record-high unemployment is considered among the greatest failures of the Arroyo administration and is seen to even worsen this year. BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat The Philippines’ record-high unemployment is considered among the greatest...

Amid Lack of Access to Mental Health Care, Filipinos Turn to ‘Light Stuff’, Vices in Stressful Times

Amid Lack of Access to Mental Health Care, Filipinos Turn to ‘Light Stuff’, Vices in Stressful Times

Psychiatrists admit access to mental health care is one huge problem for most Filipinos, although they see that people tend to have “coping mechanisms” against the stressful realities in Philippine society today. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat...

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