Vol. 3, No. 25 July 27-August 2, 2003
Siege in Makati:
Rebel Soldiers Ask President, Generals to Resign By Bobby Tuazon
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Strong Republic is Fast Crumbling from Within – NDFP By BULATLAT.COM
Quarantine for the "Coup Virus"? By Juan L. Mercado
Bishops, Laymen Say No to GMA’s Presidential Run
By BULATLAT.COM
AFP’s Armed Vigilantes Force Lumads to Live in Fear; UN recommendation on paramilitary groups’ pull-out in Davao ignored By Cheryl Dirige
Davao’s Urban Poor Brace for a Wave of Demolitions, Evictions By Gilbert Pacificar
Rise in Human-Rights Abuses Alarms Advocates By Carlos H. Conde
Related article: ‘The AFP Values Human Rights’
Gov’t Worker Looks Forward to GMA’s Last SONA By Alexander Martin Remollino
A Tragedy That Refuses to Die: Seven years after a catastrophic spillage, two mining TNCs refuse to pay
By Dennis Espada
The New Age of Imperialism By John Bellamy Foster
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - STATE OF THE NATION By
Karl G. Ombion/BULATLAT.COM
Alternative Reader No. 62 Compiled by BULATLAT.COM
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Notes on the Antiwar Movement
By Barbara Epstein
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The New Geopolitics By Michael Klare
Vol. 3, No. 24 July 20-26, 2003
Davao City: The Bloodbath Continues; 191 drug suspects killed by vigilantes since 1998 By Carlos H. Conde and Rolando Pinsoy
Petron’s Full Privatization: An Act of Desperation, a Fulfillment of Oil Deregulation
By Danilo Araña Arao
Is Justice Near for Marcos’ Human Rights Victims? By Aubrey SC Makilan
‘Truth Commission’ Formed to Investigate Atrocities in South;
Vice-President Guingona backs group’s initiative
By Rolando Pinsoy
Al-Ghozi
Escape a Mockery of ‘War on Terror’: Expert By Carlos H. Conde
Reyes Eyeing Diwalwal’s Gold for 2004 Elections? By Bulatlat.com
Mindanao Bureau
88% of Filipinos Today are Poor
- IBON By Dennis Espada
Power Struggle By Alexander Martin Remollino
Macapagal-Arroyo Upstages Bishop’s Final Rites;
Poor parishioners, militants barred from attending Mass By Karl G. Ombion
Resume Peace Talks
with NDFP, GMA Urged By Karl G. Ombion and Edgar A. Cadagat
U.S. Intervention in the Philippines and Korea By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Migrant Watch -
S. Korea Migrant Workers Score New Labor Policy
By BULATLAT.COM
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - A MEETING OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - World Press Body Condemns Murder of Filipino Journalist
By the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
news at a glance
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MILF won’t break ties with NPA
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KMU slams labor chief for violent dispersal
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Protestant Church asks GMA to urge EU to de-list Sison, CPP-NPA as terrorists
Alternative Reader No. 61 Compiled by BULATLAT.COM
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Mr. Bush, You Are A Liar
By William Rivers Pitt
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If One War 'Fact' On Iraq Is False, What Of Others?
By Jay Bookman
Vol. 3, No. 23 July 13-19, 2003
Special Report: Unrest in the Labor Front Heightens
Metro Manila:
The Mall Empire that Slavery Built By BULATLAT.COM
Baguio:
Contractualization Shatters Hopes for a Better Life in Baguio
By Audrey Mary Beltran
Negros:
Contractualization, Job Layoffs Widespread in the Visayas By Karl G. Ombion
Davao:
Mindanao’s Modern-Day Slaves By Carlos H. Conde
U.S. Among 5 Countries With Highest Number of SARS Cases By Aubrey SC Makilan
Analysis - Muslim Mindanao has Lowest Minimum Wage, Highest Cost of Living
By Danilo Araña Arao
A Humiliated AFP Unleashes Its Force vs Civilians in Compostela Valley By Daisy C. Gonzales
Compostela Mayor’s Killing Spotlights Top Gov’t Officials
By Daisy C. Gonzales
Army Soldiers Hack
4; Farmer-Leader May Lose Limb By Northern Dispatch Weekly
Bayan Muna to Question Immunity Pact in High Court By Ronalyn Olea
MIGRANT WATCH
Freed After 5
Years in Prison, 3 OFWs are Sentenced Again to 6 Years By BULATLAT.COM
HK Migrants
Protest: P3-B Medicare Fund Transfer an Election Gimmick? By BULATLAT.COM
LABOR WATCH - Alsons Workers Hail ‘Victory’ but Warn of Firm’s ‘Manipulations’
By Jonathan Carillo
Filipino Child and Youth Offenders: In Incalculable Misery
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Culture - The State of Culture and the Arts is the State of the Nation
By the Concerned Artists of the Philippines
Damalerio killing:
Main Suspect Now Wears Surgical Mask; is Allegedly Hunting Witnesses By the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
news at a glance
· CPP hits Arroyo for scuttling peace talks
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Gabriela welcomes CBCP actions on sex scandals
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Tadian folk oppose corporate mining
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Militants belittle GMA’s 2004 plans
Alternative Reader No. 60 Compiled by BULATLAT.COM
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US positions its forces for first strike against North Korea
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Occupation, Resistance and the Plight of the GIs: Bring 'Em Home!
By Gary Leupp
Vol. 3, No. 22 July 6-12, 2003
LABOR WATCH - SM Workers Decry Union Busting By Ronalyn Olea
Gov’t Uses Highway Billboards in Red Scare Campaign
By Paulo Dumayac
Bishop Antonio Y. Fortich:
Pilgrim for the Poor By Edgar Cadagat and Karl G. Ombion
Consumer Groups Urge 2004 Candidates to Take up Power Issue By Gerry Albert Corpuz
Related article:
Embedded PPA in the New Unbundled Power Rates
Panata ng Bayan:
In Photos By Arkibong Bayan
House and Senate Bills on UP Charter revision: The Road to UP’s Commercialization By Aubrey SC Makilan
‘Meteor Garden’: A Mother’s Review By Rowena Paraan
Compostela Valley Encounter:
NPA Guerrillas Outmaneuver Army Troopers, Inflict Heavy Casualties
By Bejay Absin
NPA Slams AFP for Arrest of Two Activist Leaders
By BULATLAT.COM
No Journalist in Military OB, AFP General Says By Edgar Cadagat and Karl G. Ombion
History's Memory, Literature's Memory - Including Ourselves in History
By Linda Ty-Casper
News Analysis -
War on Drugs, War on "Terror"? By Alexander Martin Remollino
ELECTION WATCH - His Father's Namesake: The senator eyes the presidency By Alexander Martin Remollino
news at a glance
· Free woman political prisoner and her sick baby, HR group urges
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But convicted killers are released
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OFWs join Asia-wide boycott campaign against Nestle
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Salamat not part of negotiating panel, MILF insists
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CPP, NPA unfazed by Arroyo's "counterattacks"
Alternative Reader No. 59 Compiled by BULATLAT.COM
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A Third World Country Can Still Defeat a U.S. Military Aggression, Argues German Sociologist
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US fails post-war Iraq examination
By Jim Lobe
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Descending into the quagmire
By Daniel Smith