By JAMES BOVARD Counterpunch International Posted by Bulatlat The Obama administration appears increasingly devoted to covering up the worst crimes of the Bush era. CIA chief Leon Panetta formally objected to federal judge Alvin Hellerstein who was considering...
By TOM LOUDON Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat During the last week, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, confrontations between nonviolent indigenous protesters and police have left up to 100 people dead. The vast majority of the casualties are civilians, who...
By GLORIA GOODALE Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat A long-running resource issue finally trickles down to more consumers. Move over carbon, the next shoe to drop in the popular awareness of eco-issues is the "water footprint." That's the word in...
Ni TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat Pumatak ang luha ng libo-libong kasama kasabay ng mga pagsigaw. Naghalo ang poot at hinagpis sa hapon ng sa iyo'y pagpaslang, Ka Fermin. Hindi umulan sa kamaynilaan habang libu-libo kaming tumungo sa protesta laban sa mga...
Detained peasant leader Randall Echanis today said President Macapagal-Arroyo’s so-called order abolishing the dreaded Inter-Agency Legal Action Group (IALAG) is not enough and urging the President to drop all charges against its victims. Reports said that the...
Impunity is alive and well in the Philippines and has claimed the life of another journalist. On Tuesday, a lone assassin shot and stabbed dead radio commentator Crispin Perez of radio station dwDO outside his home in San Jose City, Occidental Mindoro province. He...
Audio: Fiery Words Against Charter Change
Outside Manila, the Same Indignation
By BOBBY TUAZON Bulatlat Silage Choppers & Snake Spirits By Dao-yuan Chou Edited by Juliet de Lima-Sison Published by IBON Foundation Inc. 466 pages MANILA -- China used to be the center of world socialism. That record has been shattered by revisionists and enemies...
Fermin Lorico was a peasant organizer and a mass leader. He had been a marked man. On Wednesday, minutes after attending the anti-charter change rally in Dumaguete City, a gunman shot him several times – the latest in a series of extrajudicial killings of progressive leaders in Negros Oriental.
MANILA -- A meeting of officials of party-list groups Anakpawis, Bayan Muna, Gabriela, and Kabataan was raided by suspected elements of the military in Cagayan Valley region at past midnight Thursday. Anakpawis reported that around 30 heavily armed men in...
'Stop Cha-cha! Enough of Gloria!'
By RONALYN V. OLEA, JANESS ANN J. ELLAO, MAO HERMITANIO and GLAIZA MAY MUZONES Bulatlat MANILA – On the eve of the anti-charter change rally on Wednesday, text messages were circulating warning people from joining the rally to avoid being infected with the A(H1N1)...
The newly-formed Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan) today aired the possibility of a People Power-backed, minority-led mutiny in Congress if the House leadership insists on convening Congress into a constituent assembly under House Resolution 1109....
Hours before the “Stop Gloria’s Con-Ass” Rally, environmentalists, scientists and indigenous peoples organizations will position themselves in front of Ninoy Aquino Monument and make rounds in Ayala and Buendia Avenue. This is to urge office workers and...
Reporters Without Borders urges the authorities to react with the utmost firmness to today’s murder of Crispin Perez in his home in San Jose (in western Mindoro Occidental province). Perez was shot twice and stabbed twice by an unidentified assailant shortly after...
MANILA -- The Philippines has started to enter into what is effectively a recession since last year, according to research group IBON Foundation. This is considering not just the steeply dropping growth rates but also the rising joblessness and poverty in the...
Youths Out in Streets Vs 'Piggish' Arroyo
Groups across the Philippines are gearing up for what they promised to be one of the biggest nationwide protests against the Arroyo administration and its efforts to amend the Constitution.
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