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Day: August 21, 2010
Salungguhit: The Ties That Bind
The Ties That Bind
In Davao, Military Uses Vigilante Groups Against NPA
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com The 10th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army has revived the vigilante group ‘Alsa Lumad’ in its campaign against the New People’s Army (NPA). The NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), has been waging a revolution for more than four decades. The setting up…
A Record of War Crimes by the Bush and Obama Administrations
Bill Van Auken http://www.wsws. org/articles/ 2010/jul2010/ pers-j27. shtml The tens of thousands of documents posted online by WikiLeaks Sunday have provided a detailed and searing indictment of a criminal colonial war that the Obama administration has made its own. In its sheer volume—92,000 documents, 200,000 pages—the so-called Afghan War Diary makes an incontrovertible case that…
Morong 43’s New Mom Asserts Her Rights and That of Her Child
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Twenty armed men in three vehicles took her from her hospital room in handcuffs. She was separated from her baby. They took her away swiftly while her mother was settling her hospital bills. This detainee is not a high profile, dangerous criminal, but a health worker and political detainee.
This is What Success Looks Like
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN http://www.counterpunch.org/ Posted by Bulatlat.com The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon announced this week. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing into Kuwait August 19. The US combat mission in Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom – is scheduled to end…
Profits Are Way Up at General Motors … So Why Aren’t They Hiring?
By MICHAEL MOORE Alternet.org Posted by Bulatlat.com “If we want a life worth living for ourselves and our kids, we have to go get it ourselves. We can’t keep waiting for the cavalry to come. That’s because we’re the cavalry.” So General Motors is back to making billions in profit. And if the past is…
Street Shooter: Planting Season
Planting Season
Isla de Mabanlas: A Family of Artists
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com BALINGASAG, Misamis Oriental — Francesca Salim, 46, and the rest of her family are not known for their surnames – a usual scenario in small towns in the country. Their family, instead, is more known now for their collective name, Isla de Mabanlas. Isla de Mabanlas, which literally means…
Women’s Groups Push for Divorce Bill
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Amid the heated public debate regarding the divorce bill filed recently by Gabriela, battered women such as Maricon Reazo await its passage to be given another chance at having a happy family life.
Benjie Oliveros | Unfulfilled Promises Piling Up
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com As the country approaches the first 100 days of the second Aquino administration, unfulfilled campaign promises seem to be piling up. During his campaign for the presidency, the Hacienda Luisita issue haunted Benigno Simeon Aquino III. He first tried to dismiss the issue by mouthing the line of the management…