Vol. 4, No. 34 September 26-October 2, 2004
Train Rehab to Bump Off Thousands of Dwellers
(Part II) By Dabet Castañeda
Related article: Demolitions Threaten Tacloban’s Urban Poor By Maureen Japzon
U.S. Troops Unwanted in Davao; ‘We will make it politically costly for them!’
By Cheryll D. Fiel
The Philippine Financial Crisis and the Neo-Colonial State
By Edberto M. Villegas
Arroyo Has Her Own Share in the Fiscal Crisis
By Alexander Martin Remollino
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Vigilantes Descend on Tagum; Death Squads kill 40 persons in 4 months By
Grace S. Uddin
‘My brother is not a criminal’: Even in Prison, Mindoro's Alleged Top NPA Cadre Serves Others By Dennis
Espada
‘Worse
Than Martial Law’ By Cheryll D. Fiel
LABOR WATCH - From 2001 to 2004: More Than 12,000 Workers Repressed
By Ronalyn V. Olea
Villagers Up in Arms Against Mining Firm’s Exhaust Reopening
By Marlon Gomarcho
DPWH, Japanese
Contractors Collaborate on ‘Useless’ Projects - UP Prof
By Aubrey SC Makilan
Students Walk Out, Decry Budget Cuts
By Ronalyn V. Olea
BOOK REVIEW -
Historicizing Samar: The Tree and the Forest
The Untold People’s History: Samar Philippines
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Experts on Terror: Looking in the
Mirror By James Petras
TULA (POETRY)
- Balangiga
By Richard R. Gappi
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - DEEP WELL AMID TROUBLED WATER By Dabet Castañeda/BULATLAT
Vol. 4, No. 33 September 19-25, 2004
Railway Poor's Loss is China's Gain
(Part I) By Dabet Castañeda
ON THE 32ND ANNIVERSARY OF MARTIAL RULE:
19 Years After ‘Bloody Thursday,’ Terror Still Stalks Escalante By Karl G.
Ombion
The Truth is,
He Never Left Us By Alexander Martin RemollinoNews Commentary - Taxpayers To Pay Marcos Debt Until 2025 By Arnold Padilla
8 Breadwinners Needed To Support a Family of 6 in ARMM; House leaders agree: legislated wage hike needed now
By
Danilo Araña Arao
LABOR WATCH - Fight Goes on for San Miguel’s Retrenched Workers
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Expect Worse Floods To Hit CL
By Aubrey SC Makilan
Life Along the Abra River By Abi Taguba Bengwayan
MIGRANT WATCH - Filipinos in Canada Organize To Protect Themselves
By Edwin Mercurio
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - Terror Still Reigns in Mindoro
By Dabet Castañeda
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S WATCH - Letter from an Aeta: Pro-Mining Policy Spells More Trouble for Indigenous Peoples By Nelson Mallari
A Century of Crimes Against the
Filipino People By
Atty. Romeo Capulong
POETRY
-
Walang Katapusan ang Hibik ng Filipinas
By Richard R. Gappi
Photo Essay -
Rail Life
By Dabet Castañeda
NEWS AT A GLANCE
Garments company’s closure illegal - Workers’ alliance
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - WHEN PEDAL TURNS
TO PUSH By Dabet Castañeda/BULATLATALTERNATIVE READER NO. 89 COMPILED BY BULATLAT.COM
Yesterday's Men, and Tomorrow's The Economist
It's Worse Than You Think By Scott Johnson and Babak Dehghanpisheh
Rumsfeld's Dirty War on Terror The Guardian U.K.
Why the West is Losing By Eric Margolis
Iraq War was Illegal and Breached U.N. Charter, Says Annan By Ewen MacAskill and
Julian Borger
U.S. Intelligence Shows Pessimism on Iraq's Future By Douglas Jehl
Far Graver than Vietnam By Sidney Blumenthal
Vol. 4, No. 32 September 12-18, 2004
Violence Mars Land Reform Implementation in Negros;
15 agrarian reform beneficiaries killed in 4 years
By Karl G. Ombion
Ex-President’s Son in Congress Row with Peasant Solon;
Workers Assail ‘Modern-day Slavery’ By Gerry Albert Corpuz
LABOR WATCH - Workers Face Mass Lay-Offs as Lucio Tan Takeover of VMC Looms By
Karl G. Ombion
Philippine Public Health ‘in Emergency Room’ – Health Activist
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Activist Solon Gets House Support for Health Probe By
Alexander Martin Remollino
Health Workers, Patients’ Kin Decry Low Health Budget
By Ronalyn V. Olea
Tarlac’s Colibangbang Dike:
Unfulfilled Promises By Aubrey SC Makilan
Commentary
- Nationalizing the Oil Industry is Tough, But… By
Danilo Araña Arao
Privatization Squeezes NAPOCOR Dry By Arnold Padilla
Melita Trinidad-Carvajal: A Beacon of Militant Women’s Movement By
Dennis Espada
Alvin Luque and the Travails of Filipino Activists By
Amabelle Plaza-Laminero
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - Soldiers Kill Farmer, Pregnant Wife in `Legitimate Encounter’
By Cheryll D. Fiel
Agno River Irrigation: Development Or Peril? By
Jhong dela Cruz
CULTURE - UP Dumps Bust of National Artist, Father of Philippine Pharmacy; Rizal artist restores worn-out sculpture
By Richard R. Gappi
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - WHEN IN TROUBLE
Courtesy by the Citizen's Disaster Response Center/BULATLAT.COM
DEMOCRATIC SPACE - Viewing the Crisis from Where the People Stand
By the Concerned Artists of the Philippines
ALTERNATIVE READER NO. 88 COMPILED BY BULATLAT.COM
Chechnya: Let's Denounce Russian Imperialism Unambiguously By Francisco Brotons
Vol. 4, No. 31 September 5-11, 2004
10-Year Debt Moratorium Will Give Gov’t P3 Trillion; Anti-tax group seeks passage of debt moratorium bill to avert crisis
By Gerry Albert Corpuz
Analysis
- On the third anniversary of 9/11: ‘We Shall Prevail’?
By
Bobby Tuazon
On the GRP peace talks with the NDFP, MILF: Is Arroyo Negotiating in Bad Faith?
By Cheryll Fiel
Barrels of Controversy
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Foreign Debt: The NDFP View By Alexander Martin Remollino
MIGRANT WATCH - 69-Year-old OFW
in Coma in Riyadh; Another Missing in Dubai By Karl G. Ombion
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
3 Activists
Missing Since Aug. 18; Abduction witnessed by hundreds of Sampaloc church devotees By Dabet
Castañeda
Two Kalinga Students Summarily Killed?
By Northern Dispatch
Commentary
- Gov’t Should Reduce Power Rates, Not Just Give Discounts By Giovanni Tapang
LABOR WATCH -
KMU-Cordillera Opposes Unskilled Workers’ Wage Reduction
By Leonida Tundagui
Compostela Valley’s Radyo Natin Maco Turns One
By Mars Marata
PHOTO OF THE WEEK - SCREAMS AND SQUIRMS By Ace Alegre/BULATLAT.COM
