Why Desmond Tutu is Right About Bush & Blair by VIJAY PRASHAD Counterpunch Last week, Bishop Desmond Tutu was to sit beside former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at the cringingly named Discovery Invest Leadership Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. Tutu, one of the main moral voices in the anti-Apartheid struggle, decided to withdraw. He…
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Oil price review committee, deodorant of oil cartel-Aquino govt collusion?
By MARYA SALAMAT
Progressive groups are criticizing the Independent Oil Price Review Committee for limiting itself to ‘surface data’ and refusing to delve deeper into the supply contracts and inventories of oil companies; for starting from the assumption that the Oil Deregulation Law is for the people’s benefit; and for relying on data ‘voluntarily supplied’ by oil companies.
Sidebar:Probe on findings of Independent Oil Price Review Committee urged
Breastfeeding advocacy groups oppose amendments to Milk Code
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
After losing a Supreme Court battle to block the implementation of the Milk Code in 2007, multinational formula milk companies are now lobbying Congress to reverse the gains in promoting breastfeeding and restrict formula milk advertising.
Sidebar: Dispelling false notions about breastfeeding
Milk-letting activity highlight campaign against amendments to Milk Code
Milk-letting activity highlights campaign against amendments to Milk Code
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Main Article: Breastfeeding advocacy groups oppose amendments to Milk Code Sidebar: Dispelling false notions about breastfeeding MANILA – Breastmilk is not only healthy for mothers and babies, it is the most convenient and practical way to feed babies, especially during calamities. This is the testimony of Ritchel Diaz, mother…
Dispelling false notions about breastfeeding
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Main Article: Breastfeeding advocacy groups oppose amendments to Milk Code Sidebar: Milk-letting activity highlights campaign against amendments to Milk Code MANILA – Many mothers still have false notions about breastfeeding. Not only do they think that it is embarrassing to breastfeed in front of other people, some even say…
Reproductive health, a question of women’s rights
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The debate over the proposed Reproductive Health Bill is raging in Congress. The most vocal opposition to the RH bill comes from the Catholic Church. It has been using the pulpit and has rallied church organizations to block the passage of the bill. On the other side is the Aquino government,…
Police, military collude to defy court order, keep Red leader in military detention
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – In a supposed democracy, civilian authority is considered supreme over the military. Such is not the case for detained rebel leader Tirso “Ka Bart” Alcantara who has been in solitary confinement and heavily guarded by soldiers since he was arrested in January last year for rebellion, murder and…
Migrants group exposes poor legal services for OFWS
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Migrante International’s chapter in the Middle East is demanding to know why no one is heading the Department of Foreign Affairs’ (DFA) Migrant Workers Affairs division. Migrante-ME said no one has yet replaced Esteban Conejos who used to stand as the division’s undersecretary. On February 2012, President…
De La Salle professors support RH bill, call for openness
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Just when Interaksyon.com published an interview with the late former archbishop of Milan and papal candidate Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini who said that the Catholic Church was “200 years out of date,” De La Salle professors called for intellectual openness and empowerment of the poor and marginalised…
NDFP remains hopeful peace talks to resume
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Sometimes, you ask ‘Why should you still have talks with a regime that shows no political will? That violates human rights? On the other hand, the economic crisis is worsening and it shows the necessity of holding negotiations on socio-economic reforms to address the roots of the armed conflict.” – Luis Jalandoni, NDFP
Sidebar: Police, military collude to defy court order, keep Red leader in military detention
Suspected Cafgu members attack Lumad protest camp in Bukidnon
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The Lumad families left their community and set up a protest camp in Bukidnon after their village leader Jimmy Liguyon was killed by Alde “Butchoy” Salusad of the New Indigenous Peoples’ Army Reform (NIPAR) and his father, Nonong Salusad, a member of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographic Unit (CAFGU). But paramilitary forces continue to attack them with impunity.