The Canadian government is not taking any drastic action against human rights and environmental abuses of Canadian mining companies abroad, including the Philippines By Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo Ibon Features Posted by Bulatlat.com The chances of getting the...
While visiting their dead last Nov. 1, All Saints’ Day, this family in La Loma Cemetery in Quezon City took the opportunity to earn some money by selling pre-paid loads passed from cellphone to cellphone, popularly known as the e-load. The e-load allows one to load...
Four years after he graduated from a prestigious university here, Mark Dicaleng landed a job in a medical transcription (MT) company. He has only been with the company for a year but he is earning a five-digit income. By Lyn V. Ramo Northern Dispatch...
A total of 120 political activists and supporters of progressive party lists and people’s organizations have been killed from January to October 26. For the sake of human rights, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her mean killing machine must be prevented from...
Peasant leader Danilo Ramos said some congressmen in Bicol are “fast-tracking” the distribution of fertilizer bags and even cash allegedly to refute claims that no farm inputs were distributed to farmers under the controversial P728-million fertilizer fund of the...
Official statistics show that seven out of every 10 Filipinos die without ever seeing a doctor and that the nearly 75 percent of the population living below poverty line are mainly in rural areas where there is no access to basic services such as health and medical...
In its Nov. 4 statement of concern, the National Christian Council in Japan (NCCJ) condemned the spate of “political killings” in the Philippines which has victimized church leaders, trade union leaders, human rights defenders and members of progressive...
Canadian Gov't Fails to Address Mining Abuses in RP The Canadian government is not taking any drastic action against human rights and environmental abuses of Canadian mining companies abroad, including the Philippines By Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo Ibon Features...
Are attempts to hide the truth behind the fertilizer funds now taking place? Peasant leader Danilo Ramos said some congressmen in Bicol are “fast-tracking” the distribution of fertilizer bags and even cash allegedly to refute claims that no farm inputs were...
A total of 120 political activists and supporters of progressive party lists and people’s organizations have been killed from January to October 26. For the sake of human rights, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her mean killing machine must be prevented from...
It should be amply evident by now that the killing of Church people, lawyers, members of people's organizations, and leaders and members of progressive party-list groups is part of a state policy to eliminate dissenters, left-wing personalities involved in the...
Official statistics show that seven out of every 10 Filipinos die without ever seeing a doctor and that the nearly 75 percent of the population living below poverty line are mainly in rural areas where there is no access to basic services such as health and medical...
The rape case is one of the many atrocities committed by US troops in the conduct of joint US-RP exercises. We recall the incident in Manarapan, Carmen, North Cotabato in mid-2004, where one elderly woman, fearing that a military operation was underway, died of a...
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Our first, short visit to Cuba has left us impressed with the accomplishments of the island-nation that for more than 40 years has stood up to global capitalism. We also returned home aware of the many limits of the...
The call for a snap election is a sure sign of desperation, not among the opposition but among Mrs. Arroyo’s own allies, many of whom are beginning to realize how incorrigibly focused she is on staying in power, even if it be to the entire nation’s detriment. By...
Two of those who were recently killed in Central Luzon have had brushes before with Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, the man the victims’ relatives and friends claim as behind the killings. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com ANGELES CITY, Pampanga - The eldest son of slain...
While painting the wall of the police office in Baguio City, 246 kms. north of Manila, a laborer also gives his mightiest efforts to cheat death as he hangs seated on a bamboo beam, with only a nylon rope to help him keep his balance. Just one wrong move and he...
The citizens’ congress that will try President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is an alternative forum that has become necessary because of the impotence of traditional institutions and processes to address the serious charges being levied against the president. BY DABET...
By Rev. Erahvilla M. Maga-Cabillas Contributed to Bulatlat.com beneath the soil grave an echo cried out arise brother, sister, mother, father, parent, friend succumb not to fiendish and cruelest death, come, breath long, wide and deep be strongest, permit not the...
Ni Raul Funilas Posted by Bulatlat.com Kasarapan nang tagayan Sa bakurang pahingahan, Labimpitong kasamahan Ni Ka Ric, nagkakantahan. At ang kanilang usapa’y Ang bakpey sa sobrang araw Nilang pinagtrabahuhan. Nang biglang umalingawngaw! Ang putok na nakadungaw Ng...
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