By Bulatlat.com An overseas Filipino worker who was in Kish Island in the Persian Gulf on a tourist visa was killed on July 1, a chapter of Migrante International in Saudi Arabia reported recently. The victim was waiting for his re-entry visa for the United Arab Emirates when he was killed. “We received this very…
Day: July 10, 2010
Teachers Urge Aquino to Resuscitate Education System
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Because of what teachers call as the “the lost decade of Philippine education” during the Arroyo administration, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers is calling for urgent and bold measures.
Luis Teodoro | Much-traveled Roads
By LUIS TEODORO LuisTeodoro.com/Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com WHEN Barack Obama was elected US President in 2008, hopes ran high that change was forthcoming both in the United States itself as well as abroad. Obama would decisively address the economic crisis at home, reduce the unemployment rate by creating the conditions that would generate jobs,…
Street Shooter: Superstar
Superstar
Photo of the Week: Before the Rain
Before the Rain
Like Arroyo Like Aquino? Same Cabinet/Government – Same Anti-people Policies
By MARYA SALAMAT
Forming his team to set the direction of change or political payback? So far, except for Justice Sec. Leila de Lima, the Cabinet of Pres. Benigno Aquino III is a mixture of key figures in his campaign, representatives of big business, and old hands of the former Arroyo administration.
Salungguhit: Aquino’s Wake Up Call
Aquino’s Wake Up Call
Araneta Family, Mascap Farmers Fight Over Land in Rodriguez, Rizal
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Even as the 1,644-hectare land was already awarded to the farmers in 1972 through Presidential Decree 27 or the Marcos Land Reform Law, the Araneta family was able to get the Court of Appeals to rule in its favor in 2003. Now the case is before the Supreme Court.
We’re in a Recession Because the Rich Are Raking in an Absurd Portion of the Wealth
By ROBERT REICH The Nation / Alternet.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com Wall Street’s banditry was the proximate cause of the Great Recession, not its underlying cause. Even if the Street is better controlled in the future (and I have my doubts), the structural reason for the Great Recession still haunts America. That reason is America’s…
Stage-Managing the War on Terror
By STEPHAN SALISBURY TomDispatch International Posted by Bulatlat.com Informers have by now become our first line of defense in our battles with the evildoers, the go-to guys in the never-ending domestic war on terror. They regularly do the dirty work — suggesting and encouraging the plots, laboring as bag men to move the money, fashioning…
Peasant Women, Coping on the Fringes
By LYN V. RAMO
With their small parcels of land no longer producing enough for their families, peasant women and men try to make do with odd jobs.