Hindi nauubusan ng isyu ang bansang ito. Malalim ang balon ng pandarahas at pandarambong. Mabuti na lamang at mayroong gising – nangangampanya, tumututol, nagsasalaysay, gumugunita at nag-aaklas – habang ang marami ay natutulog na, o ipinaghehele ng mga jingle at...
A review of Philippine history shows an analysis of certain events and historical figures like Andres Bonifacio that border on the ridiculous and the sinister. BY ROSALINDA N. OLSEN Contributed to Bulatlat Too often we transfer ourselves into what we see, hear or...
Members of the media in Baguio City wore black T-shirts as their contribution to the nationally- coordinated observation of the international day of protest against media killings in the country. BY KIM QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY (246...
It takes convincing the electorate who have long been sickened by elections that mean nothing to their lives and future that this one is more than just a choice between Estrada's candidates and Arroyo's candidates and is, therefore, different. The opposition should...
On the wall in their cell Calamba, Laguna, a big sign reads, “WE ARE ON INDEFINITE FASTING. The “Tagaytay 5” started fasting in protest against what they say is “miscarriage of justice in various forms and levels” and the “cruel” treatment of political detainees...
The Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has on file 28 complaints against the GRP for extra-judicial killings. Twenty-three of these cases have...
Is the government tailor-fitting the country’s nursing sector to the demands of the U.S. market? The secretary-general of the Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD), Dr. Gene Nisperos, has posed this question following statements by government officials that the...
The husband of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) sentenced to die by hanging in Kuwait said he should not have listened to Philippine government officials who advised him to keep silent regarding his wife’s case. “Lalo nilang pinabayaan e. Dapat sana lalo kaming...
While families of victims of extrajudicial executions testified before him during his recently concluded 10-day visit to the Philippines, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra judicial, arbitrary and summary executions Prof. Philip Alston said he was almost...
The report of United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston on the culpability of the military in the spate of political killings, and the formation of the anti-fraud group Kontra-Daya addressed two critical issues confronting the Arroyo government: its crisis of...
By the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) Posted by Bulatlat Welcome to the dark ages. On February 8, voting 16-2, the Senate passed on final reading the Human Security Act of 2007, more commonly known as the Anti-Terrorism Bill (ATB). A day after, the bicameral...
NI E. SAN JUAN, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat Natiyempuhan ko lamang basahin sa pahayagan kamakailan ang balitang nagpakamatay sina Librado at Martina Gallardo sa Barangay Conversion, Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija — hintay muna, baka may masahol pang higit sa tinamasang...
NI HUGH MACDIARMID SALIN MULA SA INGLES NI GELACIO GUILLERMO Inilathala ng Bulatlat Para kay Muriel Rukeyser Walang makaaangkin nitong kataasan (ang tugon ng anino) Kundi silang ang tingin sa mga paghihirap sa mundo Ay mga paghihirap, at sila’y hindi tutulutang...
Ang tunay na terorista, nakakapandaya sa eleksyon. Nanunungkulan bilang presidente habang sa pagkaligalig sa gabi, tanging cognac ang kapiling. NI ROLAND TOLENTINO Bulatlat Pukpukin ang mga kahoy na sahig, dingding at kisame. Ang tunay na terorista, pumapatay ng...
The Anti-Terrorism Bill that House Speaker Jose de Venecia is itching to pass under his leadership and Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is aching to sign with her pen poised in the air (as she herself announced) is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Simply put, the proposed...
What started as an invitation to lunch by a persistent former colleague in the activist movement turned into an attempt on the life of the secretary-general for Southern Mindanao of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas. By Grace S. Uddin davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY —...
Farmers need built-in mechanisms for pricing, a researcher from a Cordillera peasant alliance said in reaction to the agriculture secretary's bid to provide Benguet farmers additional outlets for Manila consumers. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat...
The Biofuels Act by itself cannot address the most urgent problem of exorbitant and soaring oil prices caused by foreign monopoly control. Worse, only landlords and bourgeois-compradors like Rep. Juan Miguel Zubiri and his co-authors are the ones who will benefit...
Zaynab Ampatuan, 27, hardly looks like one who has experienced being driven from home by bombs and bullets courtesy of the military. But she has – and more than twice. Her experiences with the oppression of Muslims in the Philippines led her to become an advocate...
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