What now for ARMM in view of the framework of rights-based approach to development? Has ARMM become an obstacle to development? BY ATTY. ALGAMAR A. LATIPH Contributed to Bulatlat HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Vol. VII, No. 48, January 13-19, 2008 Nearly four decades after the...
An organic fertilizer, known as Bio Green Grow Organic Fertilizer, can increase farm yield, protect the environment and restore soil bio-diversity. It was first produced in a demonstration at Barangay Balugan, Sagada, Mountain Province. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW...
Both the Democrats and Republicans come from the same corporate elite which exerts a strong influence on U.S. foreign policy. They may differ on some domestic issues but they are of the same mold with regard to America’s global trade, investment and security...
NI KAYAN LIWARI Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 26, August 5-11, 2007 Kung saan ako nanggaling hindi pa nakakarating ang balitang ipinasa na pala ang Human Security Act at patuloy na sumisikip ang mga lansangan ng Maynila para sa mga pulis na nanggigigil...
Officials and alumni of the Benguet State University (BSU), including his mentors, added their voice in the demands of various sectors and personalities to surface Jonas Joseph Burgos, an alumnus of their institution, who was believed to have been abducted by military agents.
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com To date, there have been 601 cases of political killings. Political killings or assassinations may be the appropriate term to describe it. But the way these killings were carried out, the use of authority and superior force over an...
Despite the recent oil price rollbacks, IBON computations show that oil products in the country are still overpriced by P2.12 ($0.043) per liter. While the Filipino people suffers from increases in the prices of basic goods and services, oil companies earned P3.32...
By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY – All the gunman had to do was pump one bullet into the head of Renato Pacaide. His death would have been quick, perhaps relatively less brutal. But it took more than a bullet to kill a man known as “Ka Atong” to many...
As the May election is fast approaching and candidacies are filed with the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the election fever surges even in Abra with announcements by alleged warring parties and individuals of their intention to run challenging each other, at...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Posted Feb. 16, 2007, 4:52 p.m. In the midst of the ongoing investigation of the United Nations special rapporteur on extra judicial executions, Philip Alston, on the spate of political killings in the country, another student leader of a...
PHOTOS BY AUBREY MAKILAN Posted Feb. 13, 2007, 12:46 p.m. At the start of the campaign for the May 14 elections, progressive partylist groups vying for seats in the House of Representatives have started doing the rounds to make known their platforms and programs....
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Posted Feb. 13, 2007, 6:32 p.m. SURPRISE: United Nations special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings Philip Alston (right) and his entourage cross EDSA from the police headquarters in Camp Crame to the army headquarters in Camp...
Nananaginip si Bobet gabi-gabi ng pagbukas niya sa bintana at rumaragasa ang putik at bato. Maitim ang ilog sa bukana ng bahay. Tinatangay ang sumasalungat na tao, manok, baboy at kalabaw. Naghuhimiyaw ang mga ito pero hindi kaya ng dambuhalang tunog ng pagragasa....
Ang pagiging written at spoken art ng tula ay makitid na dimension lamang ng pag-iral nito. Mas malawak ang hamon sa tula na makalampas pa sa mabusising pagkakasulat, mahusay na pagkakabigkas o kaiga-igayang pagkakatanghal, papunta sa pagtanggap ng mambabasa, na...
If Pres. Arroyo wants to talk about “social payback from the booming economy”, the only acceptable and meaningful social payback that Filipino workers deserve today is a substantial wage increase complemented by price controls, tax reforms, and drastic increases in...
The U.S.’ leaders are not creating peace or security at home or stability abroad. The reverse is the case: its interventions have been counterproductive and its foreign policy is a disaster. Americans and those people who are the objects of successive...
The management of the country’s premier public hospital said that there is a need to increase fees to have funds for improving facilities and services. Various groups, however, argued that increasing fees will be done at the expense of the poor who are supposed to...
“The mine will only aggravate poverty among the people. DENR has started to unleash an environmental time bomb with the full commercial operation of Lafayette.” – Trixie Concepcion, Defend Patrimony spokesperson and geologist BY LISA ITO Bulatlat In complete...
The “detention” by Moro rebels of a military group led by Muslim convert Brig. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino last week stemmed from the repeated postponement of a proposed tripartite meeting with the government and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC). The...
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