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By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com In this country, poor cancer patients who go to public hospitals for treatment have remote chances of surviving. I recently received a private message on Facebook calling for support for breast cancer awareness. As a response, I want...
By JACK RANDOM Counterpunch.org "When you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“In addition to the general effects of natural disasters and lack of health care, women are vulnerable to reproductive and sexual health problems, and increased rates of sexual and domestic violence.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
"While Corona’s removal from the SC will, to some extent, help in the prosecution of Arroyo, the people should be reminded that it is still the Executive branch which has the ultimate responsibility in ensuring that GMA is held accountable." – Bayan
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
In less than a month, two young women from two militarized towns have complained of rape allegedly committed by AFP soldiers right inside their military camps. Alarmed women ask, are these 'isolated' or just the tip of the iceberg?
Ni ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com “World peace” ang karaniwang sagot sa interview portion sa beauty pageants, kung ano ang wini-wish ng aspirant. World peace dahil labas ito kahilingan para sa sarili lamang. World peace bilang ideal na ang mga bansa, tao, politikal...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The law of classical economics dictates that when demand exceeds supply, prices go up and dampens demand until it reaches equilibrium with the supply. On the other hand, when demand is low and supply exceeds it, prices would go down...
Panagbenga Festival highlights its Cordillera history and heritage (Photo by Artemio A. Dumlao)
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is outraged against what it described as the United State government’s attempts to blackmail the Philippines. The US is standing against the petition of the Philippines to...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Environmental groups are pointing an accusing finger at irresponsible mining operators for the worsening state of the Palawan river. According to the Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE-Japan) and the Kalikasan People's Network...
By MARYA SALAMAT
Can their semantics circumvent the Constitutional ban on permanent stationing of US troops?
Oil firms, Aquino warned of nationwide protests vs oil price hikes (Photos by MARYA SALAMAT)
A museum employee whiles away the time reading, used to a non-museum going public. (Museum of the Filipino People, Ermita, Manila)
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Thursday I received an emailed letter from an Australian who was in Manila last February 4 and read my column piece that day, about the new US defense plan calling for expanded American role and military...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Despite its failure to deliver on its promises, some Filipinos still hail the 1986 EDSA uprising as a model of how peacefully change can be achieved. The shift in Thailand from military rule to democracy in 1992, and...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) claimed that eating tilapia lowers a child’s intelligence level. Fisherfolk organization Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) recently took umbrage...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Eighty nine overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), along with other Asian workers staged a work stoppage to protest the unfair labor practices of their employer, Al Swayeh Company in Saudi Arabia. The OFWs sought the help of...
By RONALYN V. OLEA and INA ALLECO SILVERIO
President Benigno Aquino III has classified Apeco as a flagship project under his government’s public-private partnership program. Critics point out that Aquino supported the project to clinch the support of Angaras .
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Ongoing until Feb 28 is an art exhibit that seeks to visualize the state of impunity in the Philippines. Nothing has changed in “the brazenness in the commission of human rights violations in the country,” said the End...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“It is a testament to how the President’s family mobilizes state security forces to suppress the just and legitimate assertion of the farm workers over the lands.” – KMP
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