By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Communist guerillas operating in Ilocos Sur has admitted that two of their comrades were slain by government soldiers in an almost week-long gun battle in Cervantes town, Ilocos Sur a week ago. Benny Boy “Ka Likot” Aguilar and Delfin “Ka Dindo” Gullayan died on the second day of…
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Photo of the Week: Planking or homeless?
One midnight in a busy fastfood in Pampanga last year, this guy struck a planking pose, or just slept or passed out, outside a 24-hour open fastfood. Photo by Adrian Albert Sarmiento (Bulatlat.com)
Kin of political prisoners form group, call for unconditional amnesty
Kin of political prisoners form group, call for unconditional amnesty
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The revolution begins at home: a clarion call to join the Wall Street protests
The revolution begins at home: a clarion call to join the Wall Street protests By ARUN GUPTA Alternet.org What is occurring on Wall Street right now is truly remarkable. For over 10 days, in the sanctum of the great cathedral of global capitalism, the dispossessed have liberated territory from the financial overlords and their police…
Ibrahim Zaza: the Gaza boy newspapers omitted
By RAMZY BAROUD Commondreams.org “Both of Ibrahim’s arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his legs were missing. His kidney was in a bad condition…we need people to stand with us.” These were the words of an exhausted man as he described the condition of his dying son in…
NDFP to release captives; calls for suspension of military, police operations
By KARLOS MANLUPIG
“We require that the SOMO and SOPO allow the necessary, reasonable and flexible scale of time and area for the safe and orderly release of the captives at the initiative of their NPA custodians.” – Luis Jalandoni, NDFP
Luis V. Teodoro | Cowards and SOBs
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld THE “American official” President Benigno Aquino III quoted in his speech at the University of Fordham in New York as complaining that “the problem with the Philippines is that it has 40 million cowards and one SOB (son of a bitch) ” was most probably the outspoken…
Satur C. Ocampo | Wrong post-martial law decisions still hound us
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Wednesday in New York, President Aquino made two statements, both related to the martial law dictatorship that Ferdinand Marcos imposed on our nation 39 years ago that very day and ended with his ouster in February 1986. One was this remark during an…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Protests are good
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The protracted global economic depression is sending the economies of even advanced capitalist countries such as the United States and members of the European Union on a tailspin. Despite fits of financial convulsions due to the bursting of economic bubbles and now EU countries threatening to default on their…
Bacolod-based green activist builds own green house
By KARL G. OMBION
Green activist Rusty Binas remains true to his commitment to restore ecological balance in the City of Smiles.
News in Pictures: Planking protest
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY JHUN DANTES, JR.