By Grant Lawrence Alternet International Posted by Bulatlat.com Weary men, what reap ye? Golden corn for the stranger. What sow ye? Human corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, Hunger—stricken, what see you in the offing. Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger’s scoffing. There’s a proud array of soldiers—what do…
Day: March 20, 2010
Sweatshops Won’t Save Haiti
By Tope Folarin Commondreams International Posted by Bulatlat.com The United Nations will host a Haiti donors’ conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year’s event, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worst earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries. An agenda has already…
The Shame of Padre Faura
By ATTY. MARIE YUVENCO Bulatlat.com It isn’t true that the course of our history is charted within that building along the polluted banks of the Pasig river. Malacañang may point the direction towards which the ship of state is headed, but the captain cannot pull out of port without clearance from higher authority. The voyage…