Manila’s Report to UN Committee on Torture ‘Evasive, Misleading’
Filipino Torture Victims Testify Before UN
Manila’s Report to UN Committee on Torture ‘Evasive, Misleading’
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Rapu-Rapu Residents Face New Threats As Destructive Mining Resumes
Rapu-Rapu Residents Face New Threats As Destructive Mining Resumes
More than three years after Lafayette, an Australian mining company, wrought havoc on Rapu-Rapu and its neighboring communities, residents are still reeling from the effects of the mine-tailings disaster. And they fear more threats as the mining operations resume.
Sidebar: A Mother Grapples With the Poverty Caused by Mining
A Rapu-Rapu Mother Grapples With the Poverty Caused by Mining
A Rapu-Rapu Mother Grapples With the Poverty Caused by Mining
BY JANESS ANN ELLAO Bulatlat RAPU-RAPU ISLAND, Albay -- Three decades ago, the Department of Sociology of the University of the Philippines provided interesting insights into the actual power of women. Its study showed that women from the lower classes have more...
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Where Empires Go to Die
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Where Empires Go to Die
BY DR. WILLIAM J. LEON III Truthout INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat Under the pretext of responding to the September 11, 2001, attacks in America, the United States and Great Britain invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. They dubbed this invasion Operation...
Consumers Vs. Oil Cartel: A New Round Starts
Consumers Vs. Oil Cartel: A New Round Starts
BY ARNOLD PADILLA Contributor Bulatlat MANILA --Oil firms, in particular the so-called Big Three, are again on the defensive. A trial court judge has ordered them to open their books of account for scrutiny. The order is meant to determine if the three oil firms...
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...
Sison: AFP Chief ‘Daydreaming’ About Finishing Off NPA by 2010
Sison: AFP Chief ‘Daydreaming’ About Finishing Off NPA by 2010
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat MANILA – The chief political consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), which has been engaged in on-and-off peace negotiations with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) since...
Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama
Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama
BY JEREMY SCAHILL AlterNet INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat As the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is...
Remembering Crispin ‘Ka Bel’ Beltran
Remembering Crispin ‘Ka Bel’ Beltran
BY MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat A year ago this week, Crispin 'Ka Bel' Beltran died after falling off the roof he was trying to fix. He was only 75 years old. His wife, Osang Beltran, said, "to think that I'd been happily regarding his renewed weight gain and health...
Local Oil Price Hikes Exceed Global Increases, Says Study
Local Oil Price Hikes Exceed Global Increases, Says Study
BY IBON FOUNDATION Posted by Bulatlat As oil companies hike prices anew, a study by research group IBON Foundation reveals that local pump prices have been rising by more than the price of crude oil. An analysis of monthly price data from January 1999 to March 2009...
New UP Student Code ‘Unconstitutional, Repressive’
New UP Student Code ‘Unconstitutional, Repressive’
By ANNA KRISTINA P. VIRTUSIO and CHARMAINE P. LIRIO Bulatlat QUEZON CITY -- As the premier educational institution in the country, the University of the Philippines has been regarded for decades as the epitome of academic freedom and excellence. But with the near...
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...
Aurelio Tolentino and His Play Kahapon, Ngayon, at Bukas
Aurelio Tolentino and His Play Kahapon, Ngayon, at Bukas
BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent CULTURE Bulatlat Not all Filipinos are aware of the historical importance of May 14. On May 14, 1903, Aurelio Tolentino (October 13, 1867-July 3, 1915), a Pampango playwright, poet, essayist, educator, novelist and public...
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...
Cha-Cha Means More Wage Cuts and Lay-offs, Says KMU
Cha-Cha Means More Wage Cuts and Lay-offs, Says KMU
BY CJ KUIZON LABOR WATCH Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat DAVAO CITY – The Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) in Southern Mindanao is wary of the proposal to amend the Constitution to open up the country’s resources to foreign companies, saying such proposal will only result to...
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.
OFWs Face Bleak Future as Global Crisis Hits Companies Worldwide
OFWs Face Bleak Future as Global Crisis Hits Companies Worldwide
BY MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN MIGRANT WATCH Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat DAVAO CITY — Unlike most overseas Filipino workers who lost their jobs in Taiwan, Isabelita Atis, 29, felt relieved when her plane finally touched down at the Davao International Airport in...
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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