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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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
We in the Kilusang Mayo Uno fully support the struggle of the employees of ABS-CBN in its Internal Job Market to form their union and collectively bargain with the ABS-CBN management, and to become regular employees of the television network. We raise our clenched...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Dilapidated, crowded classrooms, shortages in textbooks, overworked and underpaid teachers, and stinking comfort rooms characterize most public schools in the country. But a grade one classroom in Talusan Elementary Schools stands out because entering it would make one feel that he is inside one of the more expensive private schools in the country.
Press Statement August 20, 2010 We wish to remind the public and the mass media that in 1994 the office of the Manila prosecutor's office approved and issued a resolution dated March 2, 1994 dismissing as based on sheer speculation the charge of multiple murder...
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...
DAVAO CITY --- With broadening support from across the nation, the demand for land of the Hacienda Luisita farmers was reiterated here this week as farmers and protestant groups in Davao City joined the nationwide, simultaneous protest against the “compromise...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
President Benigno S. Aquino III is “doing the exact opposite of his pronouncement that he will put closure to the human-rights violations of Arroyo and her cohorts. As commander-in-chief, he allowed the AFP to extend the counter-insurgency plan which was proven to have violated human rights.” Read more stories on Oplan Bantay Laya
By MARYA SALAMAT
Highlights in Wednesday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court: Why farmers' shares of stocks were diluted, why new workers who were not party to the SDO in 1989 were given new shares, why shares were distributed within 15 years and not within three years as the law required, why the estate should not have been fragmented, why PARC’s revocation order is not a violation of the Bill of Rights, and why HLI’s failure to get DAR's "compliance certificate" could put SDO in trouble. 
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Maximo Sebastian found himself joining the day long protest rally in front of the Supreme Court (SC) last August 18. He was calling on the magistrates to reject Hacienda Luisita Inc’s (HLI) petition against the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council decision to junk the sugar estate’s stock distribution option (SDO) scheme.
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com Among the films presented at the 2nd Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival last August 12, 2010, two films on military aggression stood out. Both have taken the theme into directions intriguing and unexpected....
By JENNIFER CHAN Bulatlat.com No stranger to action movies, Jolie once again takes up the role of a mysterious gun-toting vixen in Salt (directed by Phillip Noyce). This time, she plays CIA agent Evelyn Salt. Suspected to be a mole planted by Russian intelligence,...
The peasants and farmworkers of Hacienda Luisita Inc (HLI) deservessocial justice and not deceitful schemes. They have to justlybenefit from the land they have been tilling for so long . Their human rights and fundamental rights have to be respected. Any offering...
NEWS RELEASE August 18, 2010 Lawyer Edre U. Olalia, acting secretary general of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), said that the high court has the opportunity now to possibly settle the decades long land dispute between the Hacienda Luisita management...
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