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By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY (September 13, 2011) – Claiming to respond to lingering issues over the passage of Mining Act of 1995, an Indigenous Peoples-responsive law is reportedly being pushed in Congress. Citing documented negative effects of mining...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"What makes this not-so-new discoveries amazing is how everything -- the interference, the spying, the continuous intervention into even the Philippines' legislative and judicial affairs - is written down." – Renato Reyes of Bayan
Sidebar: US lobbied against Cheaper Medicines Act
US admits role in opposing Sison’s exclusion from terrorist List
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Main Story: Wikileaks bares extent of US interference in Philippine affairs Sidebar: US lobbied against Cheaper Medicines Act In a series of cables, the US embassy admitted the US' government's role in the terrorist listing of...
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Main Story: Wikileaks bares extent of US interference in Philippine affairs Sidebar: US admits role in opposing Sison’s exclusion from terrorist List From September 19, 2005 to January 15, 2010, dozens of cables were sent to the...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com 1st Part: After 60 years, US-RP defense pact 'proved useless, disadvantageous to Philippines MANILA -- “Confirmed reports” about the deployment of US special operatives in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines and probably on the ground...
By MARYA SALAMAT
“This treaty and the US have not really helped in AFP modernization. It only enhanced its dependence and derogated Philippine sovereignty.” – Satur Ocampo
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The impending transport strike was not discussed in the recent dialogue with President Aquino, but San Mateo said Aquino has “diplomatically” threatened them against pushing through with the strike, as the president...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Transport groups issued the notice of strike amidst efforts by Malacañang to scuttle and threaten the planned strike against oil overpricing, taxes, numerous fees and penalties.
Sidebar: Transport strike aims to affect the profits of the Big 3 – transport groups
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"The financial cost of repaying the capital investment of Private Finance Initiative investors is therefore considerably greater than the equivalent repayment of direct government investment." – England's House of Commons Treasury Committee
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- An urban poor group said it is high time for the government to take the peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines seriously and to look into the Comprehensive Agreement on Socio-Economic Reforms...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“It is a proposal for cooperation,” NDFP's Luis Jalandoni said, adding that the proposal is not written on stone and may still be modified. “It is a working draft,” he said.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Government employees criticized President Benigno S. Aquino III's proposed $234.9 million Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund for 2012, saying that it was "unconscionable considering the deplorable poverty experienced...
“Our land is not for sale. It is not a commodity that real estate developers can peddle to their rich clients.” – Ugnayan ng Mamamayan Laban sa Pangwawasak ng Lupa sa Hacienda Looc By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Armando Lemita, 46, was born in Calayo...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Clearly, there is no other purpose for the transfer of ownership of the 500 hectares but to evade the coverage of the said portion of their landholdings from the CARP,” they said. To date, the land has remained undeveloped, the petitioners said.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“We need a revenue-transparent and domestic-oriented mining production system, and the revenues should be utilized for the development of the communities and social services for the poor." – Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment
Alternet.org Editor's note: The following is a transcript of a Noam Chomsky interview on Democracy Now! Chomsky covers a wide range of subjects, including the true cost of America's empire, the significance of Obama's recent jobs proposal, and the real reasons why...
By NADA ALWADI Commondreams.org He runs impulsively and courageously, carrying his country's flag as if he were carrying his own dream. He looks young, athletic, and fearless. He jumps over a bridge's fence and runs to the place where many of his countrymen were...
By TOM ENGELHARDT Truthout.org Let's bag it. I'm talking about the tenth anniversary ceremonies for 9/11, and everything that goes with them: the solemn reading of the names of the dead, the tolling of bells, the honoring of first responders, the gathering of...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com He took America by storm. His eloquence fired up the imagination of the American people. People volunteered in droves to oil his campaign machinery. His promise of change gave hope to the war-weary, economically-battered ordinary...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld SPEAKING AT a forum on the press and the media, former University of the Philippines president Jose V. Abueva said there were actually five Estates, or powers, in the Philippines. If the press is the Fourth Estate,...
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