The Avalon 10, a group of nurses who are part of the famous Sentosa 27++, were at last vindicated after being accused of a crime they did not commit. But their fight for justice and compensation is not yet over – not until the true culprits are punished in the full...
A group of migrant workers are seeking an investigation of new service rates imposed by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in nine Philippine embassies and three consul general offices across Europe. BY(Bulatlat.com) MIGRANT WATCH A group of migrant workers...
A doctor serving the poor in urban and rural areas in the Central Visayas region has been slapped with murder charges. BY TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Contributor HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat A doctor serving the poor in urban and rural areas in the Central Visayas...
The current deep recession that is expected to lead into a severe depression has began to kick into high gear in the Philippines in the first few weeks of the new year, portending worse things to come for the country's 36-million strong labor force. Despite the...
Four farmers filed complaints before the office of the Ombudsman against the officers of the 79th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army. BY EDMUND B. SESTOSO Contributor HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat Four peasant activists based in Negros Oriental and a human...
A human rights activist filed cases against soldiers of the 78th Infantry Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). BY TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Contributor HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat CEBU CITY- A human rights activist filed civil and administrative...
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...
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...
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...
At least 25 generals now in Arroyo Cabinet, civilian bureaucracy Insofar as the Confederation for the Unity, Recognition, and Advancement of Government Employees (Courage) sees it, the appointment of retired military and police officials to civilian posts poses a...
Local supply of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) remains tight. Even retailers complain of the lack of supply. The Arroyo government could not explain why nor would it do anything about it because of the deregulation of the downstream oil industry.
Contribution to the Forum on the Global and Financial Crisis on 30 January 2009 at De Balie, Amsterdam It is of utmost importance for the working class and the rest of the people exploited by the system of monopoly capitalism to discuss and clarify to themselves...
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...
Prof. Judy Taguiwalo who was elected overwhelming by the faculty to represent them in the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines (UP) has yet to take her oath. The reason: The Board is asking her to resign as officer of the All-UP Academic Employees...
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...
Militant organizations in Central Luzon, Catholic Bishops, environmental groups, and scientists are one in saying that the planned revival of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is costly and unsafe.
BY JOSE MARIA SISON International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) actively supports the general strike to be mounted in France starting January 29 by private and public...
Vendors in Baguio City said that while the anti-vending policy of the local government remains in place, the city has yet to identify areas for vendors. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW REGIONS Northern Dispatch Posted by(Bulatlat.com) BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. north of Manila) –...
The Arroyo government’s economic program of deregulation, liberalization, and privatization has already made the Filipino people more vulnerable to the world economic crisis and yet it is not doing anything about it because it is denying the fact that the crisis...
If the saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is universally acceptable, it can thus be said that there’s real beauty in the “morbid” canvases of the young painter in bloom, Ms. Camille Jean Verdelaire D. de la Rosa. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent...
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