On The Fringes | Mentally surviving the rotten healthcare system
I spent more hours in the waiting area than in my consultations. Most of my conversations with the doctor took only 15 to 30 minutes.
COMMENTARY
Truth be Told (Again) | To make a dictator (un)necessary
Truth be Told (Again) | To make a dictator (un)necessary
On September 23, 1972, the day Martial Law was announced, Ferdinand Marcos was certain — or, at the very least, he was determined to sound like it.
AT GROUND LEVEL
SATUR OCAMPO
The case of Manalo brothers
The Manalo brothers continue to fight for justice as Bulacan court acquitted retired major Jovito Palparan over the kidnapping and illegal detention charges.
In 2024, current wars are seen to intensify
By all indications, the coming year will see the continuation and even intensification of devastating wars in the world.
In Christ’s birthplace existential war rages
What a sad Christmas season this is for the peace-loving peoples of the world. Devastating wars are being waged, most notably, today, in Palestine and Ukraine. Soldiers are dying, civilians are suffering and dying too, and there seems to be no power on earth that will stop the gunfire.
BALIK-TANAW
PROMOTION OF CHURCH PEOPLE’S RESPONSE
Balik-Tanaw | Direksyon ng paglilingkod
Death anniversary noon ni Pinky, ang aking matalik na kaibigan, nag pasya kaming dumalaw sa kanilang probinsya sa Pangasinan. Halos 12 years din ako na di nakabalik doon, dalawang marunong mag-drive ang aking sinama. Yung isa, waze ang tinitingnan, tinuro kami sa isang daan na dead end naman. Kaya nag desisyon ang isang kasama namin na magtanong tanong, at natunton namin ang bahay nila Pinky. Mahusay ang makabagong panahon upang mapabilis ang ating mga gawain subalit lumilikha naman ito ng paglayo natin sa kapwa. Ang mensahe ni Hesus ay lumaganap noong ipinahayag ito ng iba at hindi lang sa limitadong kanyang mga kaibigan at isang paraan. Sa ating panahon, kinikilala natin na mabisa ang social media, subalit mabisa pa rin ang malawak na kayang maabot ng pakikipag k’wentuhan at malalim na pakikipag-kapwa.
Balik-Tanaw | The Messiah we never fully knew
One of the most beautiful illustrations I’ve ever heard about the depth of our knowledge of the Lord goes like this: Before starting the day’s business, the presiding judge called on anyone from the courtroom who knew Psalm 23 and requested to share it at the front.
Balik-Tanaw | This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me
Psalm 15 asks- “Who shall abide in God’s sanctuary?” “ Those who walk blameless and do what is right and speak the truth from their heart; who do not slander with their tongue and do no evil to their friends nor take up a reproach against their neighbors. . .” “…Who stand by their oath even to their hurt; who do not lend money at interest, and do not take a bribe against the innocent.” “Ang mga ganitong tao ay mag-aani ng tagumpay!”
BALIKSAYSAY
FRANCIS GEALOGO
Batingaw mula Balangiga
Sa mahabang panahon, naging simbulo ang mga kampana ng karahasan at pagnanakaw ng pagkakakilanlan na kaakibat ng digmaan. Isang kabalintunaan ang naganap na pagsasauli ng mga kampana nitong nakaraan nang ipahayag ng mga opisyal na salamin ang pagsasauli ng 'natatanging pagkakaibigan' ng Amerika at Pilipinas. Hindi naging pagkakataon ang seremonyal na pagbabalik upang mapwersa ang Amerika na humingi ng kapatawaran sa mga ginawa nitong karahasan sa Pilipinas, na ginagawa ng ibang bayang nasa antas ng rekonsilyasyon matapos kaharapin ang pait ng digmaan.
Krisis sa bigas o paano mag-alay ng tula sa mga magsasaka
Nitong mga nakaraang buwan, halos dumapa nang husto ang presyo ng palay sa pamilihan sanhi ng pagdagsa ng mga inangkat na bigas mula sa ibang bansa. Mas mahal pa ang isang istik ng sigarilyo o isang bote ng softdrinks kaysa sa isang kilo ng palay. Sa walang habas na pagpasok ng mga inangkat na dayuhang palay, wala nang proteksyon ang mga magsasaka na pangalagaan ang kanilang mga ani sa pamilihan.
Macario Sakay: Ang tulisan bilang bayani
Ang paggamit ng linyang anti-komunista, ang red tagging sa mga kritiko ng pamahalaan at ang pagpatay, pagpapakulong at panggigipit sa mga aktibista at kritiko ng pamahalaan ang kasalukuyang ekspresyon ng karanasang nagsimula pa sa panahon ni Macario Sakay.
BLOODRUSH
SARAH RAYMUNDO
Mapping the course: Peace talks and red bashing
Peace talks comes primarily because in the country’s hinterlands, a people’s army, guided by a communist party, is building organs of democratic political power. And in various sites, the communist bid for land redistribution, national industrialization, and a participatory planned economy through socialism is paralleled by organized, institutionalized and legitimate endeavors pursuing the same vision. This is enough for a government that is provisionally hijacked by compradors and imperialists to talk peace and reforms.
Wanted: Consent for full spectrum dominance
The law is flagrantly used by judges, police and military to violate human rights. Organizations previously red tagged have endured painful outcomes such a the imprisonment, murder and massacre of their members. This is none other than full spectrum dominance.
Chile today: Allende’s anti-neoliberal autumn
One of the supreme ironies in the history of protest movements is the fact that Chile, a US laboratory for covert action and direct military aggression is also the place in which the slogan "¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!” (The people united will never be defeated) originates. It is chanted by peoples in protests and meetings which honor revolutionary international solidarity.
FIRST PERSON
BULATLAT CONTRIBUTORS
Why do we want news organizations to pay for visual content? A short explainer.
So no, it's not mainly about the money. It's more on how we want this important part of journalism to be accorded the respect that it deserves and not to be neglected by these gatekeepers.
First Person | Slapshock’s Agent Orange
The immediate effect was to facilitate a conversation, if not an outright stand on imperialist wars waged by the U.S.
Empirical bases for ending the semester and mass promoting UP Diliman students (and ousting you-know-who)
Remote learning cannot continue in the wake of the global pandemic and the strong typhoons, not to mention the incompetence and indifference of the Duterte administration.
KALIBUTAN
KALIKASAN-PEOPLE’S NETWORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Four heroic women for Mother Earth
But hope springs eternal. Environmental defenders everywhere are tirelessly working to protect the last frontiers of nature and restore our despoiled environment.
Fool’s gold under Duterte
It looks like gold, shimmers like gold. But scrape its surface off and it's just muck. Like Duterte's promised 'change.'
Cha-cha proposals to aggravate Mining Act’s 23 years of abuses, disasters
Cha-cha seeks to constitutionalize the Mining Act's FTAA scheme that allows 100% foreign ownership and large-scale extraction of our mineral resources.
KONTEKSTO
DANILO ARAO
Konteksto | Penitensya
Bakit hindi matuto ang mga pinahihirapang Pilipino? Mali tanong ito. Sa katunayan, matagal na silang natuto. Ang problema lang, madalas na walang matinong mapagpilian lalo na sa lokal na antas.
Konteksto | Peke
Totoong maraming peke. Hindi lang sila produkto kundi mayroon ding mga tao. Sama-samang iwaksi ang mga kapitalistang nagsasabing nasa puso ang makatulong pero nasa utak naman ang tubo. Sila ang mga pekeng dapat ilantad sa mundo.
Konteksto | Arestado
Huwag nang magulat si Duterte at ang mga tagasuporta niya kung maraming peryodistang nagbubunyi sa kanyang kinasasadlakan sa Oude Waalsdorperweg 10, 2597 AK Den Haag, The Netherlands. Arestado na, detenido pa. Dapat lang na pagbayaran niya ang kanyang mga ginawa.
OPINION
BULATLAT EDITORS
SONA 2022: Why Marcos Jr. economic blueprint will make the nation, ordinary folk suffer
Marcos Jr.'s priority is to ensure that the neoliberal policies that his predecessor President Rodrigo Duterte passed are maximized to create the most favorable environment for big businesses, including foreign capital. To become an investment destination, the administration will provide massive tax breaks to corporations through the CREATE Law and provide foreign companies more profit-making opportunities with the amended laws on public services and foreign investments.
The political economy of the Ukraine crisis
The Ukraine conflict is an example of how sovereign countries become launching pads of inter-imperialist proxy wars mainly because of their geopolitical and economic positions.
US and NATO mastermind and engineer armed conflict between Russophobe Ukrainian regime and Russia
The US and NATO masterminded, engineered and openly funded from the US embassy in Kyiv the Maidan protests in 2013 and the bloody coup d’etat against the pro-Russian government in 2014 in order to bring to power the Russian-hating Bandera-type fascists (the National Socialists of Ukraine), the political descendants of Nazis, and a new breed of Zionist fascists, all servile to the US and West European monopoly capitalism and the NATO. Thus was institutionalized a Russophobic and neo-fascist regime in Ukraine in 2014.
ON THE FRINGES
BULATLAT STAFF
#15YearsofBulatlat | Choosing journalism for the people
I was not only honing my writing skills in Bulatlat, but also deepening the commitment to serve the people’s interests and their struggles.
#15YearsofBulatlat | My sources of news, my sources of inspiration
I would say journalism is a blessing as it is a curse. Writing is my only way of trying to help out those whose voices are either unheard or muted. There are times I feel it is not enough.
Martial Law was just OK?
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QUESTION EVERYTHING
MONG PALATINO
Question Everything | War and resistance in Myanmar and the Philippines
Myanmar’s experience offers relevant lessons for those who are monitoring the pro-democracy movements in Thailand, Hong Kong, and the Philippines.
Resilience and resistance in the Philippines
After more than half a century, the Philippine revolutionary struggle could already offer its experience in conducting a protracted resistance in this part of the world.
Muog na Buo: Song of the resistance
It validates the enduring legacy of our anti-colonial heroes who sought to unite the nation by waging a war for independence.
ROOT ACCESS
COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS UNION
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