By CAROL PAGADUAN-PARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her cabal are at the end of their rope and they don’t know it, or pretend not to. They are so isolated, so inured from criticism and have so far gotten away with so much mayhem that they do not half…
Day: August 22, 2009
Former CIA Agent: “What the Agency Was Doing With Blackwater Scares the Hell Out of Me”
By Jeremy Scahill The Nation/Alternet International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) In April 2002, the CIA paid Blackwater more than $5 million to deploy a small team of men inside Afghanistan during the early stages of US operations in the country. A month later, Erik Prince, the company’s owner and a former Navy SEAL, flew to Afghanistan…
The Truth About Afghan Election
By PATRICK COCKBURN Counterpunch International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) In Iraq and Afghanistan American and British forces became participants in civil wars which their own presence has exacerbated and prolonged. The US and UK governments persistently ignore the extent to which foreign military occupation has destabilized both countries. The reason for this should be obvious: foreign…
Rags-to-Riches Not At All
Rags-to-Riches Not At All. A rag vendor takes a rest by the sidewalk. (By Pom Cahilog-Villanueva)
LGU Convinced Lepanto Is Liable For Disaster
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat MANKAYAN, Benguet ? The local government unit (LGU) here is convinced that the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company is liable for the massive sinking on June 5 of Aurora St. in Barangay Poblacion. The disaster destroyed the Mankayan Elementary School and the Mankayan National High School and forced…
Busol Residents Assert Land Ownership
By WENDY ATUBAN Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY? The ancestral land claimants at the Busol watershed who have been issued demolition orders despite having pending applications for ancestral land titles at the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) confessed being disturbed by labels such as “squatters,” “professional squatters,” and “informal settlers” used to…
No Reason to Celebrate Int’l Indigenous Peoples’ Day — Kalumaran
By GRACE UDDIN Indigenous Peoples Watch Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat DAVAO CITY— A partylist representative and leaders of indigenous peoples’ groups in Mindanao said there is no reason to celebrate the 15th year of International Day of Indigenous Peoples as the tribes continue to suffer from the atrocities of the Arroyo administration. “The Arroyo…
Students Learn About Benguet’s Traditional Clothes
BY JAILA SAGPA-EY AND JS TABANGCURA Culture Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat LA TRINIDAD, Benguet ?The early people of Benguet actually used ethnic blankets woven by the Ilocanos of Tagudin and Bangar, Ilocos Province. Contrary to the present generation’s notion that ethnic blankets are only used for death-related rituals and ceremonies, the early Benguets used…
‘Design Flaw, Mismanagement’ Caused Landslide in Rodriguez Dumpsite
The environment department blamed heavy rains for the massive erosion of soil and garbage at the dumpsite in Rodriguez town, Rizal, last month. But environmentalists and scientists are not buying the explanation and have warned of future disasters.
Filipino Group in Trouble with Saudi Police for Helping Distressed OFWs
In the afternoon of Aug. 14, the Saudi police raided the safehouse of the migrant NGO Kapatiran sa Gitnang Silangan and arrested and detained 18 Filipinos, including several runaway OFWs. Their crime? They violated a Saudi law that forbids unrelated men and women from living together.
Benjie Oliveros | In Targeting Lumad School, Arroyo Regime Sees Red Again
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Arroyo government and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are seeing red again. This time, they are attacking, of all places, schools that serve Lumad communities. Long neglected by the government, the Lumad communities in Surigao del Sur under their organization Mapasu (Malahutayong Pakigbisog Alang sa Sumusunod,…