BY EMILY VITAL Bulatlat Seven years after the concurrence by the Philippine Senate of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), critics reiterate the demand for the junking of the said agreement. They also hit the new RP-US accord which they say will further strengthen...
BY TRINA FEDERIS Bulatlat Peasants are usually depicted as a hardworking people, perpetually hunched over their crops, their limbs half-buried in mud. Under the scorching heat of the sun, or the lashings of the rain, they stay on, either protecting their crops, or...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Bulatlat Fr. Felino Bugauisan, assistant parish priest of Rapu-Rapu and chair of Sagip-Isla (Save the island), a multi-sectoral organization opposed to mining operations in the island off Legazpi City in Albay, threatened to file charges against...
BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat “Even as Filipinos now have reached the summit of Mt. Everest, the youth remained at the bottom under the administration of Arroyo. Education has become harder to reach and achieve,” says League of Filipino Students (LFS) High School chair...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat Sitting on the front porch of his quarters at the Bonifacio Naval Station (BNS), retired Navy Capt. Julian Advincula watched from a video camera the tape that captured how members of the Philippine Marines forcibly evicted his...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat Two retired officers of the Philippine Navy said the eviction of retired Navy officers from the Bonifacio Naval Station would create another stir among the military. Two retired officers of the Philippine Navy said the eviction of...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Satur Ocampo admits that for a while, amid what he describes as “political persecution” of representatives from progressive party-list groups, there were those within their ranks who raised...
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo told the recent 27th National Conference of Employers that by working with her government, they can take the country to the “Enchanted Kingdom of First World Success.” But the country is nowhere near the...
BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luzon News Service Posted by Bulatlat Stanley Karnow, in his book In Our Image, said the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the U.S. government brought the concept of death squads to the Philippines, specifically in Central Luzon, in the...
Farm workers of Hacienda Luisita are challenging President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to prove that she is not merely using the Hacienda Luisita issue to spite former Pres. Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, heir to the Luisita estate and one of the president’s main political...
BY HAIDER RIZVI OneWorld.net NEW YORK - A leading international human rights group is calling for the Bush administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged involvement of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials...
BY GRIFF WITTE The Washington Post Occupation officials got cash and gifts for deals. An American businessman who is at the heart of one of the biggest corruption cases to emerge from the reconstruction of Iraq has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, bribery and...
BY OMAR AL-IBADI Reuters Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGHDAD - Snipers held rooftop positions as masked Sunni Arab insurgents said they were gearing up for another open street battle with pro-government Shi'ite militiamen in Baghdad's Adhamiya district on Tuesday. The...
(Komunikasyon mula kay Mr. Laong-Laan, OFW, para kay Ka Crispin Beltran, bilanggo ng administrasyong Arroyo) “Bilang Commander-in-Chief, kontrolado ko’ng sitwasyon—” “Babala ko, babagsak ang buong bigat ng batas—“ Aruy ko po! Lumalaon bumubuti sumasama kaysa dati...
NI E. SAN JUAN, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com (Komunikasyon mula kay Mr. Laong-Laan, OFW, para kay Ka Crispin Beltran, bilanggo ng administrasyong Arroyo) “Bilang Commander-in-Chief, kontrolado ko’ng sitwasyon—” “Babala ko, babagsak ang buong bigat ng batas—“ Aruy...
NI RAUL FUNILAS Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com I Antigong prinsipyo’y di kayang igupo Minanang katulad sa lantay na ginto Nagbuwis nang buhay tumagas ay dugo Sa manghihimagsik na aming ninuno II Kaming proletaryo’y hahawak ng armas Ang pakikibaka’y tiyak sasambulat Sa...
NI LOLITO R. GO, JR. Inilathala ng Bulatlat.com Si Kapitan na kilala rin sa bansag na Pipoy ay buong sigasig na rumonda upang ikampanya ang isang panukalang ni hindi niya naiintindihan Sa nagtitinda ng kikiam: Naiintindihan mo ba ang nakasulat dito? Hindi po. Hindi...
BY Abner Bolos GLNS/ Bulatlat.com Posted 6:39 p.m., Apr. 27, 2006 City of San Fernando—After almost a year of protest, workers in Hacienda Luisita have succeeded in pushing the government to declare as illegal quarrying operations for the Subic-Clark-Tarlac...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com Posted 7:06 p.m., Apr. 27, 2006 A former vice president, a former senator, and a law dean have joined the team working as private counsels for the complainant in the Subic rape case. Former Vice President Teofisto Guingona...
BY Bulatlat.com Posted 7:00 p.m., Apr. 24, 2006 Around 500 members of the women’s group GABRIELA, most of them residents of urban poor communities, held a march earlier today to protest against low wages amid the rising prices of prime commodities. Prices of basic...
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