By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Migrant Watch Bulatlat MANILA – Overseas Filipino workers are just as outraged as many in the homeland over the recent passage in the House of Representatives of the bill that could pave the way to amend the Constitution. On June 4, members...
Street Bingo. No polo field for these urban-poor residents playing bingo along Tomas Morato Avenue, in Quezon City. (By Raymund Villanueva)
All these hard sell about a strong economy – despite undeniable data that the Philippines is on the verge of a recession -- would be further exposed and discredited as the global crunch and the country’s own perennial crisis deteriorate. For Arroyo, the political costs can be huge.
Derailing the Cha-Cha Train. After the railroading of House Resolution 1109, the charter change (cha-cha) train is now on track, and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo must be jumping with joy at the idea that there is now no obstacle to her staying in power beyond 2010. Arroyo, however, should not be too sure of victory: she and her minions may have put one over the opposition in Congress but she cannot underestimate the power of an enraged public, which may yet derail the Cha-cha train. (By Flon Faurillo)
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY – An Abra journalist whose house was fired upon a month ago by unidentified gunmen has appealed to the police for an immediate resolution of her case as she feels threatened while the...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Regions Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY ? Various progressive groups here in this city 246 kms. north of Manila held an indignation rally June 3 against the railroading of House Resolution 1109 that seeks to convene Congress into...
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Indigenous Peoples Watch Posted by Bulatlat BONTOC, Mountain Province – Like the anti-Chico Dam struggle in the 1980s, tribal elders in this province, 394 kms. north of Manila, and nearby Kalinga are renewing their...
Dear Philippine Consul General Cecilia Rebong, We write this in the midst of preparations for the upcoming and much-anticipated Philippine Independence Day Celebration (PIDC) in New York City! Like the rest of the Filipino community in New York, we are looking...
By ARNO J. MEYER CounterPunch International Posted by Bulatlat Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of...
The regime of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will go down in history as among the worst in terms of providing education. While dropout rates are common in other presidencies, it was only under Arroyo that the dropout rates for elementary and high school surpassed 10 and 15 percent respectively.
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN CounterPunch International Posted by Bulatlat As they drafted his speech to the Muslim world, delivered in Cairo on Thursday, June 4, President Obama’s speech writers strove to suggest that cordiality towards Islam is soundly embedded in...
By STEVE WEISSMAN Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat From his first "greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum," President Barack Hussein Obama showed how to use the bully pulpit. Some listeners might have found him pedantic...
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat MANILA -- The Right of Reply Bill had been scheduled for deliberation, if not passage, on Wednesday at the House of Representatives, one of the measures that legislators were supposed to be rushing for approval before Congress went on...
Despite public statements from Arroyo denouncing extrajudicial killings, there is a gap between her rhetoric and what it has done to address the killings, said the group from the Netherlands and Belgium called Lawyers for Lawyers. Whatever initiatives she has implemented have failed to produce actual results, it said.
Perhaps the regime figured that enabling Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to extend her immunity by allowing her to run as representative of her district and then become prime minister is less costly politically -- with less chances as well of inviting an upheaval -- than...
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