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Spearfishing (Diadi, Nueva Vizacaya). Little boys spearfishing for little fishes with little success. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva / Bulatlat.com )
Is it dead, or is it not? Considering the desperation of the Arroyo regime, the threat of Charter change will always be there for as long as the various resolutions filed in the House of Representatives are not withdrawn.BY Flon Faurillo/bulatlat.com
It was only a few years ago when the Arroyo administration issued a total deployment ban to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar and Iraq because of “unstable security conditions”. Fast-forward to the present. The Arroyo administration has now lifted the deployment ban...
The family, clan, colleagues, as well as friends of missing Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) member James Moy Balao held a photo exhibit and information drive on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings at the public market of La Trinidad, Benguet on...
Through the reintegration program of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), a National Livelihood Support Fund was launched to “assist” overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were retrenched due to the global financial crisis. But retrenched OFWs have to...
When Bulatlat last visited Arnold Redondo, which was early last February, he still had his job as a production operator at Eighttech Manufacturing Corporation, one of the companies operating at the Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) which is the largest...
Alan Codizar’s family noticed the smell after two months inside their house in Catalunan Grande, a village about five kilometers from downtown Davao. “We thought it was the dog,” recalled Codizar’s wife Lourdes, “So, we moved the doghouse somewhere else but still...
Bolivian President Evo Morales just completed a five-day hunger strike to push through legislation that allows him to run again in general elections this December. And at this weekend's Summit of the Americas, US President Barack Obama will meet with Latin American...
Mankayan town officials are readying a damage suit against Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company for dumping asbestos-containing materials in Barangay (village) Sapid. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributor Bulatlat MANKAYAN, Benguet (348 kms north of Manila) – Mankayan town...
The Washington-based group the Haiti Priorities Project recently dispatched a team of 70 pollsters throughout Haiti. According to their findings, “Only 5 percent of potential voters nationwide say they are ready to go to the polls in order to elect 12 senators for...
Inspired and challenged by the increasing coverage of the plight of Filipinos overseas in the various media and the accessibility of various film equipment, a group of Filipino migrants in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam recently underwent a first-of-its-kind...
Part 1 of a two-part series Publicized as a “stimulus package”, the Economic Resiliency Plan (ERP) is criticized even by neoliberal economists as severely lacking in funds to stimulate economic activity amid the global downturn. Aggravating these funding problems...
As administration allies push for amendments of economic provisions in the Constitution, research group IBON Foundation says that the resolution seeking to allow corporations to own land and land-based resources in the Philippines are based on an outmoded ideology...
A citizens’ group in the Bicol Region has thrown its support behind any investigation that the Senate would undertake into the social cost of the presence of US troops in the country, as well as its adverse effects on the local community. This statement of support by the Bikolano Alliance for Nationalism Against Balikatan (BAN Balikatan) came on the heels of Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan’s call for an investigation into reports that US soldiers participating in the Balikatan military exercises in Bicol are enjoying nightly prostitution “services”.
In Iraq, time leaves bloody marks upon each day of the ongoing US occupation. The policies of the Obama administration, adopted from the Bush administration, continue to wreak their havoc on the Iraqi people. BY DAHR JAMAIL Truthout INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat...
The Great American Experience (TAE) is an unbridled extension of Mideo Cruz’exhibits mounted in the earlier part of 2009 in New York and Miami, now reworked and staged at the Lunduyan Art Gallery along Kamuning Road, Quezon City. As Fredrich Engels once described...
A new coalition has been formed to counter the dirty and traditional politics in the country. It has pledged to advance the politics of change and promote a 'pro-people' platform for the 2010 elections.
Bawat politikong tarpaulin, tulad ng ad na pangunahing gamit nito, ay naghahanap ng politikal na lehitimasyon. Kaya nga nagpapatarpaulin ang politiko, para maging lehitimong politiko. At tulad ng bombardment ng materyales sa panahon ng eleksyon, kung sino na lamang...
What the QCPD did to Ted Failon, his household and to her sister-in-law Pamela Arteche merely reflects the impunity prevailing in the country. The last time the government, the AFP and the police, then integrated under the Philippine Constabulary, acted with such...
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