By JOHN PILGER Counterpunch.org Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”, as if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”.…
Month: May 2014
APECO: isang bangungot sa mamamayan ng Casiguran, Aurora (2)
KALIBUTAN Ni CLEMENTE BAUTISTA Bulatlat.com Special Report: Ikalawa at huling bahagi ng isang ulat bunga ng pagsasaliksik na nilahukan ng Kalikasan PNE tungkol sa iba’t-ibang epekto ng APECO sa mga komunidad ng Aurora. Pakibasa rin: APECO: Isang bangungot sa mamamayan ng Casiguran, Aurora (1) Pagliit ng pangisdaan, paglaki ng saklaw ng pribadong pag-aari sa Casiguran…
Groups rally against special treatment for alleged plunderers
“The people are demanding for accountability and justice. If Napoles, who was instrumental in this scam, is being given special treatment and the others who are involved are still not being held accountable, then the government is depriving the people of that justice.” – #abolishporkmovement
Supreme Court urged to declare US-PH Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement unconstitutional
“The purpose of EDCA is not about promoting the interests of the Filipino people because “it was hatched to protect US economic and security interests and maintain US global power protection and military superiority at a low cost.”
Luisita farmer’s hut burned down; more raps filed vs beneficiaries
“Why can’t the DAR allow us to continue cultivating the land we have occupied since 2005?”
Justice
By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
The 3-in-1 revolution
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com At the risk of oversimplifying the definition of revolution, I dare say it involves three dynamics: critique and destruction of the existing social order, building a new world, and the continuous reinvention of the self. Of the three, the most familiar is the first – activists denouncing the bankrupt society…
Andrea Rosal demands justice for baby
In this video, Andrea Rosal demands justice for the death of her baby Diona Andrea. “I hope that you would join me in my fight. I hope children would no longer be victimized. I hope my baby would be the last to suffer this injustice.”
Makabayan bloc urges Congress: Fast track bills for tuition moratorium, regulation
“Unfortunately, both CHED [Commission on Higher Education] and the Department of Education (DepEd) have miserably failed to curb the meteoric rise in tuition and other school fees. Their issuances and memorandum orders are inherently full of loopholes and appear merely to give the illusion that these agencies are actually doing something about the problem when the opposite is true.”
Support to Mindanao people’s defense of land, environment, urged
“The Talaingod Manobos who are now just returning to their lands are still in need of food, medicines, blankets and other materials in order to rebuild their lives. They need our support in filing complaints and lobbying against the military before the Commission on Human Rights, Philippine Congress, Philippine courts, and up to the level of the United Nations.”
Mindanao natural resources, protectors under siege
Kalikasan PNE warns that the largely undocumented biodiversity in Pantaron Range might disappear, along with indigenous knowledge of the Talaingod Manobos who have protected the forests of the mountain range for decades, if they continue to be driven out of their ancestral domain by massive troop deployment and military operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).