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Waiting for His Homecoming

Waiting for His Homecoming

Being alone is a fate worse than death. Yes, a day of not seeing someone may be a torturing experience, but one wonders aloud, how does it feel not to see a loved one for a year, not knowing where to find the person you’re missing, and all that’s left are memories...

A Critique of the Economic Resiliency Plan: Why Arroyo’s P330-Billion ‘Stimulus’ Package Will Not Solve Joblessness

A Critique of the Economic Resiliency Plan: Why Arroyo’s P330-Billion ‘Stimulus’ Package Will Not Solve Joblessness

BY ARNOLD PADILLA Contributor Bulatlat Part 2 of a two-part series As Filipino workers marked Labor Day last May 1, about 400 from their ranks are being displaced daily as fallout of the global economic crisis. By the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DoLE) own...

Renato Constantino, Revisited: Reflections on the Nationalist Paradigm in the Era of Failed Neoliberalism

Renato Constantino, Revisited: Reflections on the Nationalist Paradigm in the Era of Failed Neoliberalism

The 90th birth anniversary, and 10th death anniversary this year of the nationalist scholar and former colleague, the late Professor Renato Constantino, is being commemorated amidst perhaps the most serious global crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression of...

Rights, Not Raids

Rights, Not Raids

Even with a legalization program, millions of people will remain without papers. For them, work without "authorization" will still be a crime. And while employer sanctions have little effect on migration, they will continue to make workers vulnerable to employer...

The Comics Wars

The Comics Wars

For decades the Roces clan of publishers monopolized the comics industries in the Philippines – even as they “warred” among themselves for the biggest share of the market. Their enterprises shut down, however, toward the end of the previous century. BY NOEL SALES...

De Facto Entourage

De Facto Entourage


De Facto Entourage. When boxer Manny Pacquiao returned to the Philippines after winning his bout with England’s Ricky Hatton, he was accompanied by a de facto entourage of politicians who did not have to be with him in Las Vegas. (By Flon Faurillo/Bulatlat.com)

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