By AMY GOODMAN Reader Supported News | Truthdig Posted by Bulatlat.com “In memoriam, Christoph Probst, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl” reads the banner at the top of Kareem Amer’s popular Egyptian dissident blog. “Beheaded on Feb. 22, 1943, for daring to say no to Hitler, and yes to freedom and justice for all.” The young blogger’s…
Day: February 11, 2011
Obama’s Bad Deal With the Chamber of Commerce
By ROBERT REICH Robert Reich’s Blog | Reader Supported News Posted by Bulatlat.com “We can, and we must, work together,” the President told the US Chamber of Commerce today. “Whatever differences we may have, I know that all of us share a deep, abiding belief in this country, a belief in our people, a belief…
Aquino Urged to Stop Magnetite Mining, Conversion of Coastal Areas Into PPP Ventures
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Pamalakaya, the fisherfolk group, said the government should stop “the national auction of coastal resources to multinationals and transnational corporation,” saying such a policy would worsen the impact of climate change.
Bring Home Stranded OFWs in Saudi Arabia – Bayan Muna
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Posted by Bulatlat.com MANILA — A progressive lawmaker takes up the cudgels for Filipinos stranded in Saudi Arabia, saying that they did not go abroad to live under bridges like storm-drain rats. Last February 7, Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy A. Casino delivered a privilege speech on the problems confronting distressed…
Scientist Group Slams Privatization, Planned Transfer of NFA Functions to DSWD
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Privatizing the National Food Authority (NFA) will endanger food security and lead to greater price destabilization. Transferring the NFA’s functions to the DSWD will put food security issues at the hands of big business. This was the warning the Advocates of Science & Technology for the People…
Lawmaker Calls Attention to Increasing Number of OFW ‘Drug Mules’
As per records of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), there are 630 Filipinos languishing in various jails in Asia, the United States, and in the Middle East. By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Bayan Muna lawmaker Neri Colmenares recently urged the House Committee on Drugs to look into the alarming number of…
Election Watchdog Against Postponing ARMM Polls
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANIla — A Lanao del Sur-based electoral watchdog expressed strong opposition to proposals to postpone the August 8 2011 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Healing Democracy, a Maranao grassroots project aiming to organize and educate the Lanao del Sur electorate, said postponing the polls would…
New Methodology Distorts Reality of Poverty in Philippines
By IBON Foundation, Inc.
“The government should cut poverty by increasing the incomes of Filipinos instead of reducing the poverty threshold.”–Ibon Foundation, Inc.
Luis V. Teodoro | The Truth Interred
Equally troublesome is the media tendency to speculate on Reyes’ state of mind, his reasons for his apparent suicide, and even who’s to blame for it (as the weekend approached, the Senate was turning into the villain responsible). While nothing much can be gained from it, the cost of this mindlessness is to bury under tons of verbal garbage the need to get to the bottom of the corruption metastasizing in an institution that claims national security as its exclusive mandate. By LUIS V. TEODORO / bulatlat.com
Egypt’s Long Road Ahead
By EUGENE ROBINSON Truthdig Posted by Bulatlat.com Hosni Mubarak’s iron rule crumbles but will not go gently. He still believes himself president of Egypt, although Egypt does not. The revolutionaries of Tahrir Square still have work to do to dislodge him—and then to dismantle the system of coercion, cronyism and corruption that sustained the dictator’s…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Faking Peace Advocacy
The government and the AFP have consistently harped on the line that the “insurgency” is the obstacle to development, to wit: “If only the armed rebels stop fighting the government and lay down their arms, there will be peace and development in our country”. This kind of thinking is totally blind to the real roots of the armed conflict and is incapable of appreciating, much less grasping, the need to address these roots in order to achieve a just and lasting peace. By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO / bulatlat.com