Ni Sonny Mallari Bulatlat.com I Kinakalawang na ang antigong makinilya sa ilalim ng teheras… Nababalot na rin ng lumot ang gasgas na pluma sa ibabaw ng maalikabok na lamesa… Nanginginig na rin ang kamay at daliri sa bawat pagtipa ng letra… Pero patuloy pa ring nakatangan sa bote ng tinta… Na ngayon ay binubukalan ng…
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Salungguhit: Special treatment
Who says everybody is equal under the law? While the poor die of diseases in cramped , unsanitary jails, former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wallows in the luxurious St. Luke’s Hospital. By Flon Faurillo (Bulatlat.com)
Flight from justice
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The overriding and unstated premise in the controversy over the “constitutional crisis” provoked by the Supreme Court order allowing former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former First Gentleman Miguel Arroyo to travel abroad and the Justice Secretary’s insistence on barring them from leaving on the basis of a departmental “watch…
Photo of the week: Panata’y ipagtanggol ang kalikasan
An elderly Igorot in a protest action against foreign mining in Nueva Vizcaya. Photo by Clemente Bautista (Bulatlat.com)
P-Noy, SC can both be blamed for GMA drama
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This piece was written before the Supreme Court held a special en banc session yesterday to hear the oral arguments on various pleadings pertaining to the Justice Department order stopping Gloria M. Arroyo from travelling abroad and the Tribunal’s issuance of a temporary restraining…
How Occupy is Transforming Our National Conversation
By ROBIN BROAD and JOHN CAVANAGH Commondreams.org Shift your gaze for a moment from the lurid headlines of police shutting down Occupy sites in Oakland, New York and other cities to the scene on a sunny day in early November here in Washington, D.C. In front of the grandiose U.S. Treasury Department building, thousands of…
59 Political Killings This Year, The Bloodshed in Honduras: Obama’s Disgrace
By MARK WEISBROT Counterpunch.org Imagine that an opposition organizer were murdered in broad daylight in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador or Venezuela by masked gunmen, or kidnapped and murdered by armed guards of a well-known supporter of the government. It would be front page news in the New York Times, and all over the TV news. The…
Ilang ‘Bakit’ sa Mundo
Ni Sonny Mallari Bulatlat.com I Bakit ba nagpapakodak pa ang tao samantalang hindi na niya ito makikita kapag nawala na siya sa mundo? Para sa alaala ng daigdig na dati niyang isinusuka sa kalupitan at kawalang katarungan. “Requiéscant in pace”. II Bakit patuloy lang si Mang Juan sa pagbabanat ng buto sa kanyang katawang de…
Destinasyon
Ni MARK ANGELES Limampu’t walo silang sumakay sa ataul. Limampu’t walo silang sumakay sa ataul tungong Shariff Aguak. Limampu’t walo silang sumakay sa ataul tungong Shariff Aguak. ang di na nakarating. Sa bangin natagpuan. Sa bangin natagpuan ang kanilang mga bangkay. Sa bangin natagpuan ang kanilang mga bangkay, tinaniman ng bala. Sa bangin natagpuan ang…
Photo of the week: Game over
One of the most visible child labor scenes are found in markets including this one in Baguio City. This cheerful boy at least has a cart for pretending he’s playing a game. Photo by Jo A. Santos (Bulatlat.com)
The Police May Have Seized The Park But The Movement Moves On
By DANNY SCHECHTER Commondreams.org It was strange, after all these weeks, to be on the outside looking in at a new set of occupiers that were there because they have the guns and we don’t. When Mao said that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” he most assuredly did not have anything…