By MARYA SALAMAT
“What enriches oil companies greatly impoverishes Filipino consumers, especially public utility drivers.” – PISTON Partylist
By RONALYN V. OLEA
In questioning the solicitor general, the magistrates picked apart Sections 4(c)(4), 6, 7, 12 and 19, of the law.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Aside from the Philippine Orthopedic Center, more Public-Private Partnerships are lined up by the administration of President Benigno Aquino III, the multisectoral group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) warned as the...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“The transformation of the service orientation of public hospitals into a profit-driven venture and the shift of health care from the state to private entities is clearly privatization.” – Network Opposed to Privatization
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by IBON Foundation Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Pointing out that more jobs and lower poverty incidence are more important development indicators, research group IBON criticized Pres. Benigno Aquino for overemphasizing the performance of the local stock market and...
On last 6 session days of Congress, workers press for passage of P125 wage hike bill (Photo by Marya Salamat / Bulatlat.com)
By INA ALLECO R, SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Do paintings have the power that photographs could never replicate? In some cases, this is true. Throughout history there have been paintings that have captured the imagination and awakened intense feelings of social and...
By MARYA SALAMAT
President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III pledged to install a transparent government, the opposite of scandal-ridden administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. But a global survey on budget transparency gives his administration a lower if not the same score as during Arroyo's.
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA N. QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — A top official of the Philex Mining Corporation admitted that a greater disaster would happen if tailings pond 3 (TP3) collapses. Earlier, leaders of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) called for...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — On January 23, 2012, residents of sitio (subvillage) Madaymen, Tabio Mankayan set up their barricade against the drilling activities of Far Southeast Gold resources Inc. (FSGRI) and Lepanto Consolidated Mining...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld What's a Philippine election for that one should once more be inflicted on us? It’s certainly not so the citizenry can elect new leaders–or even remotely better ones, that possibility being nil with the dominance of...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld This column has been absent for some time due to health issues confounding its writer. The prolonged leave from political and social activism and the lengthy pause from writing a weekly column in this paper had...
By RALPH NADER Commondreams.org Mike Duke CEO ?Walmart Corporation?Bentonville Arkansas Dear Mr. Duke, Walmart, your gigantic company, is increasingly being challenged by your workers, government prosecutors, civil lawsuits, communities (that do not want a...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
‘More than the monetary compensation, the bill represents the only formal, written document that acknowledges that martial law violated the human rights of Filipinos and that there were courageous people who fought the dictatorship.’ Marie Hilao-Enriquez, Karapatan
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Agrarian reform has not yet been achieved, no matter how Aquino seeks to create the illusion that his administration has finished implementing it.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
"It’s no longer Freedom of Information but Freedom of Exemption." – Raymond Palatino, Kabataan Partylist
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA –Poet-songwriter Ericson Acosta is happy to be out of the Calbayog sub-provincial jail in Samar where he had been detained for 23 months on trumped-up criminal charges. His freedom is temporary, though. And Acosta is aware his...
Farmers bring land reform demands to Noynoy's gate at Times St. (Photo by Pom Cahilog-Villanueva / Bulatlat.com)
Read main story: Punish US Navy for violating Phl laws; Stop use of Phl as US military base, Aquino urged By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – As it becomes clearer that the US Navy’s minesweeper USS Guardian could not just be dragged away from the erstwhile...
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – This week marks the last nine session days before Congress takes a recess for election campaign. As such, workers led by labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) tried to remind the lawmakers not to leave behind their years-long...
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