Four couples find love across the Pacific Being in a foreign country does not prevent one from falling in love, even in a time of diaspora. Globalization and love have something in common since both can cut across all borders. Unlike the former, however, the latter...
With nine screws placed in her left foot and two big screws in her spinal column, Carmelita Lagata, a domestic helper in Kuwait, was teary-eyed relating the pain she had to endure after an accident while running away from her employer. She even had to fend for...
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) hit the resumption of Balikatan exercises in Mindanao and called on senatorial and congressional candidates to take a stand against the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA). BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat The...
A student activist was killed last February 15 while the United Nations special rapporteur on extra-judicial, arbitrary and summary executions was meeting with executives of the National Security Council. This has led human rights groups to conclude that there is...
Until the early 1990s, residents living near the Port of Batangas had a decent income, most of them even had enough resources to send their children to college. But twelve years after the port’s expansion and privatization, the residents who were driven out of...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples warns that the Arroyo government’s inability to stop extra-judicial killings in the Philippines is undermining its international standing. By Bulatlat The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Indigenous...
If there is any local politician who has managed to court controversy for the alleged presence of vigilante groups in his turf other than Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, it is Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña. He admits there are such groups in his area of...
The P294-million remaining budget of the Department of Health (DoH) for the last quarter of 2006 will be of great use, but unfortunately not to the health department and its services. Despite the intractable logistical matters and the great need for resources that...
Calling the new guidelines of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration as a “sugar-coated extortion scheme,” OFWs in Hongkong and Migrante International, the local organization of OFWs, are planning more protest actions and bigger mobilizations. BY AUBREY...
It is important to point out that while the Melo Commission report is kept under wraps, with only alleged parts of it revealed piecemeal, as suits the purposes of Malacañang, there can not be any meaningful nor even worthwhile response to it except that of...
The directives issued by President Arroyo, in response to the report of the Melo Commission, were not meant to get to the bottom of the killings but to continue with the cover-up. Only the recommendation to seek the involvement of foreign investigators is worth...
(Conclusion) Extrajudicial executions, meant to create terror among the populace, are main fare in U.S.-directed counterinsurgency strategies in Vietnam and El Salvador during the latter part of the 60s and early 80s respectively. It is now being seen with...
(Second of three parts) U.S. support for the Arroyo regime has been steady even when President Arroyo was deeply enmeshed in a crisis and was almost ousted in 2005. Its political support did not waiver even when President Arroyo declared a state of national...
(First of three parts) Southeast Asia caught greater attention from the U.S. after the latter launched its “war on terror” in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Southeast Asia, most especially the Philippines, provided U.S. Pres....
The political crisis now cannot be solved by the shift to a parliamentary system with Macapagal-Arroyo and her allies imposing themselves upon the Filipino people. The Filipino people need less of them, not more. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Against all odds,...
The political crisis now cannot be solved by the shift to a parliamentary system with Macapagal-Arroyo and her allies imposing themselves upon the Filipino people. The Filipino people need less of them, not more. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat Against all odds, the...
In six years, the Arroyo administration has reversed the gains of the Filipino people, no matter how small, when it toppled the Marcos fascist dictatorship. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com It has been a little more than 20 years since the Filipino people toppled...
Nicole’s case is not just rape. It is also a case against the presence of U.S. troops in the country, a violation of our sovereignty. It is not only Nicole’s dignity which has been violated. The Filipino people’s dignity is also trampled upon whenever U.S. troops...
The result of the U.S. midterm elections is not so much a vote for the Democrats although it catapulted them to the majority position after 14 years. It is more of an indictment of the Bush administration, specifically its policy on Iraq and the war on terror, its...
The results of the latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) regarding the incidence of hunger and poverty are better indicators of the economic situation instead of the so-called growth statistics released by the government. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS...
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