By Jasper Almirante/ Bulatlat Bulatlat.com As President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appeared June 27 on television saying “I’m sorry” for talking to an election official during the counting of votes – trying very hard to shed tears, critics said – reports were rife...
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...
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...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s June 27 televised admission that it was her voice that is in the controversial taped conversations widely believed to be dealing with rigging the 2004 presidential election has, as the oft-repeated phrase goes, raised more...
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...
By Gerry Albert Corpuz Bulatlat.com Can a foreigner be barred for entering the Philippines because of his or her previous participation in a protest action here? The answer is yes, going by the experience of a Bangladeshi peasant leader who was deported last March...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Many a young officer learns soon enough the yawning gap between the ideals that he learned in the military or police academy – courage, integrity, loyalty and the reality of military and police...
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...
President also committed four impeachable offenses, lawyer says. The contents of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s taped conversation with an election official – widely believed to be Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano – could get her as much as 23 ½ years...
Bulatlat.com The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) and its 13 million constituents along with thevast majority of the Filipino people call for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s resignation on the basis of the so-called “Gloria-gate” tapes....
Power consumers face new power rates increases this year. For power consumers, there is no relief from the spate of rate hikes they had to put up with last year, for that matter, for decades. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com After greetings of “Happy new...
Mammoth rally set on July 13 The calls of various sectors and classes for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to resign have widened the rift between the ruling elite and have hastened her impending ouster. But militant groups say these will never be enough to kick...
Two important mass actions in July will happen in Manila and the Southern Tagalog-based protesters are expected to make their voices heard. BY DENNIS ESPADA Bulatlat Bulatlat.com CALAMBA CITY – Protesters from the Southern Tagalog (ST) region are expected to lend...
By the Board of Women’s Work United Methodist Church Bulatlat.com At such a crucial time in our nation's life, when President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's moral ascendancy and legitimacy is clouded with doubt and uncertainty, we, the United Methodist women of faith,...
By Bishop Oscar Cruz Bulatlat.com CBCP does not demand the resignation of the President. It does not have the authority to do so. It does not claim the prerogative of so doing. It is presumptuous for the CBCP to impose or dictate upon the President to resign. BUT:...
The supposed beneficiaries of a hacienda owned by the Arroyos are now worried that they may end up landless. They argue that President Arroyo’s credibility is not just being eroded because of the allegedly wiretapped conversations and the jueteng (illegal numbers...
The mass actions calling for the President’s removal from office are not just confined to Metro Manila. Even residents of Baguio City (246 kms north of Manila) have lent their voice to the growing oust-Arroyo sentiments. BY KIM QUITASON AND A.T. BENGWAYAN Northern...
The Catholic clergy of Negros island in central Philippines has had a history of social engagements including the ouster of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and that of President Joseph Estrada in 2001. This time around, some members are boarding the movement...
‘Hello, Garci!’ ringtones make waves in New York rally An increasing number of Filipinos in Canada, the United States, Hong Kong and Europe want President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to resign now. Their demand came up in protest rallies held in major cities abroad...
Ang sumisidhing kabulukan sa kasalukuyang sistema ng ating lipunan ay kitang-kita sa laganap na pandaraya sa nakaraang eleksyon, malawakang korupsyon, jueteng-gate, at iba pa, na naganap sa pamahalaan. Samantalang ang mga nasa kapangyarihan ay nilalabag ang mga...
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