By NAT HENTOFF villagevoice.com International Posted by Bulatlat.com Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Accordingly, he turned the “war on terror” over…
Day: January 23, 2010
Right-Wing Populism Gets Help from Democrats
By NORMAN SOLOMON Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com In his triumphant speech on election night, the next senator from Massachusetts should have thanked top Democrats in Washington for all they did to make his victory possible. For a year now, leading Democrats have steadily embraced more corporate formulas for “health care reform.” In the name…
Afghanistan: Women Dying and Torture Run Amuck
By JEFFREY KAYE Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Two reports coming out of Afghanistan illustrate the depth of hypocrisy and subterfuge characterizing the US/NATO intervention in that country. One could cite a myriad of such examples, so immoral and wrong is the US war there. In the first report, a 2009 human rights assessment prepared…
Avatar at ang Nostalgia sa Komunalismo
Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Kulturang Popular Kultura Bulatlat.com Napanood ko na rin ang Avatar, matapos ng ilang masasamang titig kapag tinatanong ako kung nagawa ko na nga ito. Matapos maging isa sa pinakamatagumpay na pelikula sa kasaysayan, at kritikal na puna sa ideolohiya nito, napanood ko na rin itong pioneering na pelikula. Inabante ng pelikula ang…
Laiban Dam to Submerge Dumagat Lands
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com TANAY, Rizal – “This is the land Makidiapat has chosen for the Dumagat. We inherited it from our ancestors,” a Dumagat chieftain asserted. Makidiapat is God to the Dumagats. Ka Lope dela Cruz, who leads Dumagat families in Ilaya ng Nayon in Barangay Sta Ines here, deplored the military “now…
Salungguhit: The Long March
The Long March