In this period of uncertainty, it is time for the armed forces, as the protector and defender of the people, to play a constructive role so that the nation can alter course with the right leaders and build a true democratic society so the people may have a firm...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Bulatlat.com The name of the game these days is “Will she or won’t she get away with it?” She of course refers to the woman with the unique voice and manner of speaking, caught redhanded via a wiretapped phone conversation, trying to...
Prof. Jose Ma. Sison National Democratic Front of the Philippines Chief Political Consultant June 30, 2005 Bulatlat.com It is immoral for Corazon Aquino and others to condone the crimes of Gloria M. Arroyo and help to keep her in power. Aquino is the least...
BY Angelica Campo NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Two days after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo admitted that it was her voice in the wiretapped phone conversations, around 400 persons from Metro Baguio gathered for a mini concert...
Administration congressmen finally agreed June 30 to play the CD containing the wiretapped conversations between the President and a top election official suggesting electoral fraud last year. More and more legislators believe Macapagal-Arroyo will be judged not in...
The crisis is no longer just about electoral fraud. The economic crisis resulting in mass unrest, the lack of business confidence, and the political crisis due to rebellion have come together into a final crisis for the Arroyo government. By Antonio Tujan Jr. IBON...
A march-rally led by the Lepanto Employees Union (LEU) belied the claims of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (Lepanto) that 80 percent of the strikers want to return to work. BY Kim Quitasol and Abi Bengwayan Northern dispatch Posted by Bulatlat MANKAYAN,...
Any scenario that would preserve the present political institutions which have proven to be rotten and already past their age – or something that will put up a military junta - will only precipitate a more radical transformation. And the new political struggle may...
Youth groups launch alliance vs Arroyo The youth was one of the formidable forces in the second Edsa uprising which catapulted Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to power; it may as well be the same force that will boot Arroyo out of Malacañang. By Carl Marc Ramota...
By Bobby Tuazon Bulatlat.com Bulatlat last week held an email interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison as a political analyst and inspirational leader of the national democratic movement in the country with regards the current political crisis. Sison, who is on forced...
A well-known Catholic bishop, party-list leader and others agree that a transition council should replace President Macapagal-Arroyo, whose ouster is being sought by more and more Filipinos. By Art Allad-iw Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY - A Catholic...
By the Center for Empowerment in Governance (CENPEG) Bulatlat.com THE current political crisis demands a solution. But it would be absurd if the solution were to replicate the “solution” to the crisis of 2000-2001. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who was then Vice...
A national conference on mining held recently concluded that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo serves as an instrument of corruption and plunder by foreign mining corporations and declared her ouster as an urgent agenda. BY FELICISIMO H. MANALANSAN, JR....
Photo by Ace Alegre/Bulatlat Bulatlat.com There’s nothing wrong with your eyes, or with the picture. This is a child being harassed by Baguio City police at the city’s public market. He stands with head bowed in terror as a cop drags him by the collar. Authorities...
AWIT NI JESS SANTIAGO Bulatlat.com Nakakasawa ang mga pangako Nakakasawa rin ang maghintay Ang mga pangakong laging napapako Sa pagtitiwala ay pumapatay Nakakapagod din ang umasa Lalo’t ang bituka ay walang laman Napakailap sa mahirap ang histusya Lalo’t bansa ay...
While campaigning for the ouster of their president Winston Garcia, employees of the Government Service Insurance System take a step higher by calling for the ouster of the one who appointed him – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com...
The following is a chronology of events on the allegedly wiretapped conversations between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. The author presented this at the forum titled “Gloriagate Tapes: What the Public Should...
Various forces and sectors, even strange bedfellows, came together this week for a unified cause – to force what they said was a bogus president to step down from power. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com In a crowd of more than 10,000 gathered in front of the Sto....
By ELMER A. ORDOÑEZ Bulatlat.com Francisco Nemenzo Jr., former president of the University of the Philippines, has said at a Diliman forum that the alternative to the present administration—facing a crisis of confidence—is a revolutionary government. Francisco...
By Jasper Almirante/ Bulatlat Bulatlat.com President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been going around threatening to charge with sedition everyone calling for her ouster in the wake of the surfacing of CDs supposedly containing taped conversations between her and...
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