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 danger not only to the civilian bureaucracy, but to democracy itself. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat…
Day: January 31, 2009
What the People Can and Must Do About the Financial and Economic Crisis
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 what they can and must do about the current…
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 failures of the Arroyo administration and is seen to even worsen this year. Estimates made by IBON put…
UP Faculty Regent Asked to Resign as Union Officer, Conflict of Interest or Anti-Unionism?
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 Union. BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Professor Judy…
Revival of Bataan Nuclear Power Plant a Source of Corruption?
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.
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 BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of Manila) — Psychiatrists admit access to mental health…
ILPS Actively Supports January 29 General Strike of French People
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 sector workers, including those from schools, hospitals, national TV and radio, and the postal services; train-drivers,…
It’s Time to Act on the Crisis
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 would strike the country hard. More accurately, the Arroyo government has not made any…
Beauty in Morbidity: Young Camille de la Rosa Swims in the Sea of the Surreal
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 Bulatlat CULTURE If the saying “beauty is in the…
Damong Makahiya’t ‘Alanghiya
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Mimosa Pudica ang bansag ng mga Pantas. Andibaing sa Pangasinan, Babain o Dilgansusu sa Ilokos at Damohia sa Tagalog. Dikut-malamarine sa Pampanga at Harupai o Kirom-kirom sa Samar-Leyte Bisaya. Huya-huya o Tuyag-tuyag sa Panay, Sipug-sipug sa Subanon at Turog-turog sa Bikol. Ilaga ang hinugasang puno ng Damong Makahiya, Laguking…
Making Way For The Dead
Making Way For The Dead
The living makes way for the dead. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva)