Through the reintegration program of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), a National Livelihood Support Fund was launched to “assist” overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were retrenched due to the global financial crisis. But retrenched OFWs have to...
Bolivian President Evo Morales just completed a five-day hunger strike to push through legislation that allows him to run again in general elections this December. And at this weekend's Summit of the Americas, US President Barack Obama will meet with Latin American...
The Washington-based group the Haiti Priorities Project recently dispatched a team of 70 pollsters throughout Haiti. According to their findings, “Only 5 percent of potential voters nationwide say they are ready to go to the polls in order to elect 12 senators for...
In Iraq, time leaves bloody marks upon each day of the ongoing US occupation. The policies of the Obama administration, adopted from the Bush administration, continue to wreak their havoc on the Iraqi people. BY DAHR JAMAIL Truthout INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat...
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:53 p.m., July 29, 2008 Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo admitted in her State of the Nation Address (SONA) yesterday her government's failure to alleviate poverty in Mindanao due to the 'endless conflict in the island.' But a congresswoman from...
BY BULATLAT Posted 4:38 p.m., July 29, 2008 Consumer group TXTPower is not at all happy about the 50-percent cost reduction of text messaging. In her State of the Nation Address yesterday, Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced that telecommunication companies have...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Posted 7:15 p.m., July 28, 2008 Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo cannot make any realistic claim of progress today, a representative of the party-list group Bayan Muna (People First) said today at the rally against the State of...
BY BULATLAT Posted 2:40 p.m. - July 28, 2008 Even before Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers her state of the nation address (SONA), people's organizations under the banner of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan- New Patriotic Alliance) presented what they...
NI RICHARD R. GAPPI Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 25, July 27-August 2, 2008 Bulsa ko ay ninakawan ng kamay ng Malacañang; butas-butas, walang laman ni pambili ng Alaxan sa sakit ng kalingkingang dama ng buong katawan. Mas mabuti pa si Pacman Bugbog-sarado...
NI MYKEL ANDRADA Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 25, July 27-August 2, 2008 Hayan na, hayan na di mo pa makita. Korner na, korner na, sipa pa, sipa pa! Baka ko sa Maynila, hanggang dito, dinig ang unga. Baka ko sa Malakanyang, hanggang Estados Unidos, dinig...
Ayaw nating maging jologs pero ito na ang karumal-dumal na nagawa sa atin ng rehimeng Arroyo. Lumilingon ang marami sa atin sa kaliwa't kanan at nag-iisip kung paano makakalamang sa kapwa gayong ang pambansang pangulo na sukdulang nakakalamang sa lahat ay hindi...
The human rights situation in the Ilocos Region has reflected the overall state of human rights in the Philippines. It has continued to worsen in the first half of 2008. Under Mrs. Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo’s Oplan Bantay Laya II (OBL or Operation Freedom Watch II),...
To address the rice crisis, a group of Filipino scientists joined farmers in calling for a genuine agrarian reform program, mechanization and development of agriculture and support for farmers, among others. BY RONALYN V. OLEA BULATLAT Volume VIII, Number 25, July...
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front of the Philippines DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat.com Volume VIII, Number 25, July 27 - August 2, 2008 The fake president Gloria M. Arroyo has such a long record of lying that no...
Hindi maaaring talikdan o kalimutan ng isang peryodista ang kanyang kinagisnan para lang epektibong magampanan ang kanyang gawain. Kung tutuusin, kailangan pa nga niyang malaman nang mabuti kung ano ang kanyang paninindigan para epektibong masuri ang mga datos...
The plight of Filipino teachers has been at its worst since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed the presidency in 2001, according to the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT). Amid the recent surges in the prices of petroleum products and consequently of transport and...
Privatization is to blame for skyrocketing water prices and the inefficient water service in the country. Not to mention its ill effects on the livelihood of water district employees due to massive layoffs. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VIII,...
The congressman warns of "chaos about to be unleashed" on economic and political system by globalist intervention and world empire BY STEVE WATSON Infowars.net ALTERNATIVE READER Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 25, July 27-August 2, 2008 Texas Congressman Ron...
Widespread hunger and poverty, broad dissatisfaction, and the absence of justice belie any claim of accomplishments that the Arroyo government is hard-selling on the people. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS ANALYSIS Vol. VIII, No. 25, July 27-August 2, 2008 Pres. Gloria...
BY EMILY VITAL May 19, 2008 -1:40 p.m. Randy Malayao, a consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and former vice president for Visayas of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) was abducted May 15 and remains missing as of press...
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