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POSTS FOR "Day: May 16, 2009"
A Tale of Two Summits

A Tale of Two Summits

Obama and Latin America: No Light, All Tunnel BY ROBERT SANDELS Counterpunch INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat The April summit appeared to be a grand success. No, not the one in Trinidad and Tobago; the one in Cumana, Venezuela, where Bolivian President Evo Morales...

Waiting for the Dead

Waiting for the Dead

BY JUAN ANGELO A. HONGO Bulatlat With over ten thousand OFWs stranded in different countries, 41 migrant victims in death row, and over 23 mysterious deaths of migrants, could the Arroyo administration be far from being tagged as a “migrant killer”? One of them is...

100 Years Since the US Supreme Court’s Cariño Ruling: City Still Has No Clear Policy on Ancestral Land Claims

100 Years Since the US Supreme Court’s Cariño Ruling: City Still Has No Clear Policy on Ancestral Land Claims

BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WATCH Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of Manila) -- One hundred years since the United States Supreme Court ruled in favour of Mateo Cariño’s ancestral land claim, this city, which would be...

Victims of Harassment Suits Fight Back

Victims of Harassment Suits Fight Back

The Arroyo government and its allies have been harassing their critics -- political activists, human-rights advocates, journalists, government employees, workers, teachers, environmentalists, lawyers, to name some -- with court cases that range from the frivolous to the absurd. Now, these victims of political persecution have banded together to fight back.

The VFA-Balikatan Mess

The VFA-Balikatan Mess

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS ANALYSIS Bulatlat Vanessa and Gadian provide two more reasons why the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) should be abrogated and the Balikatan joint US-Philippine military exercises be stopped. Vanessa is a 22-year-old student who recently came out...

Rape of Philippine Sovereignty

Rape of Philippine Sovereignty


Rape of Philippine Sovereignty. The recent surfacing of a Filipino who claimed she was raped by a US Marine, so soon after the overturning of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith’s conviction by the Court of Appeals, shows that for so long as the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) is in force and the Balikatan military exercises are being held, there will be more victims of rape and other forms of sexual aggression by US soldiers. (By Flon Faurillo/Bulatlat.com)

Anatomiya ng Gahasa

Anatomiya ng Gahasa

NI ROLAND TOLENTINO KULTURANG POPULAR KULTURA Bulatlat Ang mga insidente ng panggagahasa ng kababaihan ng US servicemen ay nagpapatuloy dahil patuloy na sistematikong pagbibigay-presensya sa mga ito sa bansa. Lampas nang isang siglong may Amerikanong sundalo sa...

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