The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is setting the stage for its drive to extort and intimidate business firms and politicians after announcing yesterday that some of them have been giving support to the revolutionary movement and can be charged under the Anti-Terrorism Law (ATL). This is clearly another case […]
The push by Sen. Franklin Drilon to investigate the ₱19.2-billion budget of theNational Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is a welcome move. The broad sectors of the people demand a stop to how their money is being squandered on wasteful and corrupt counterinsurgency operations and white elephant projects. We maintain that the […]
The announcement today that the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) will no longer be abrogated confirms that earlier pretend threats to terminate it is mere play-acting by Duterte to shamelessly and treacherously use the VFA and Philippine sovereignty as bargaining chip in his demand for more military aid to support his tyrannical regime. It is clear […]
I wonder why Gen. Esperon continues to serve in key positions of the defense establishment, when for around two decades now (except during the Benigno Aquino period), he has proved himself utterly incompetent having fared poorly at the helm of the government’s militarist counterinsurgency drive. He has been a continuing failure since the Arroyo regime with […]
The deployment of 51 of 82 Philippine National Police (PNP) Quezon City Police District personnel who were later discovered to be positive for Covid-19 as part of anti-riot phalanx against protesters last Monday along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City was a shameless act of public endangerment. The said police personnel were tested on July 23, […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today said there is no one else to blame for the government’s resort to another anti-people hard lockdown but Rodrigo Duterte himself and his Department of Health. “For several months, the regime failed to increase the capacity in genome sequencing and necessary measures to detect and trace the […]
Ubos-kayang labanan at ipagwagi ang pakikibaka para ibagsak ang pasistang rehimeng Duterte. Sa Araw ng State of the Nation Address (SONA) ng tiranong si Duterte, nakahanda ang buong bayan na kalampagin ang bulok, korap, inutil at teroristang rehimen. Patuloy na kikilos ang buong bayan hanggang sa ganap na maibagsak si Duterte at wakasan ang kanyang diktadurang paghahari.
Ang komite sa Partido sa larangan sa North Negros nagapadangat sa PAGSALUDO ni kaubang Dan-Dan isip usa ka rebolusyonaryong martir. Bisan sa ka bag-o pa ni kas Dan-Dan sa pagsalmot sa armadong paghimakas, apan wala siya nagdumili sa mga tahas nga gisangon kaniya bisan pa man mabuhis ang kinabuhi kun gikinahanglan. Si kas Dan-Dan usa […]
In his first state of the nation address, then newly-elected president Rodrigo Duterte promised the country peace, and emphatically added, “not the peace of the dead, but the peace of the living.” It was an epic lie. Not a year into his term, he delivered all-out war from Luzon to Mindanao, against the poor, against […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today said the dismissal and quashing of three separate cases against national minorities is an indictment of the dirty tactics applied by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) against civilians, especially against minority peoples, in the conduct of the regime’s counterinsurgency operations. […]