More than a thousand individuals marched to the Mendiola Bridge in Manila to mark Rodrigo Duterte’s fifth year in power last June 30 and hold him accountable for his regime of corruption, treachery, killings, and oppression. Led by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, various organizations demanded an end to the killings and for the Duterte regime to […]
75-years of neocolonialism. Around 100 students mounted a lightning rally in front of the United States Embassy in Pasay City on July 4. Youth activists led by the League of Filipino Students demanded the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement, Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement and other unequal agreements and treaties between the Philippines and the […]
The helicopters and planes of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have been recently dubbed as “flying coffins.” This came after the crash of a C-130 Hercules transport plane of the AFP last July 4 in Barangay Bangkal, Patikul, Sulu, which recorded the highest number of casualties in the past three decades. Latest reports […]
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) once again placed the Philippines in its “grey list” last June 24. This means the FATF will put the country’s bank and financial transactions under closer scrutiny. Money laundering is “cleaning” illegally obtained dirty money through transfers involving banks or investments in legitimate businesses. The FATF is an international […]
The semiconductor industry is at currently at the center of rising imperialist rivalries between giant capitalists US and China. The rhetoric of “free trade” has been set aside as the imperialist states take a direct role in their race to control the production and distribution of this key technological product. This conflict is part of […]
Even with a few months left in Duterte’s official term, he continues to give huge favors to his armed agents, especially to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). He often calls them “my soldiers” when he visits their camps, when he incites them to kill or rape, and when he prioritized them to be […]
Semiconductor production technology in terms of fitting more circuits in limited space advances interminably. In the 1950s, an electronic chip had only ten circuits. This increased a hundredfold in the 1960s. It is said that the capacity of chips rises every two years. In the end of the 1980s, a stamp-sized could contain 16 million […]
Balon ng korapsyon ang bilyun-bilyong pisong inilaan ng rehimeng Duterte sa tugong nito sa pandemyang Covid-19. Sa ulat ng mga ahensya ng estado noong Hunyo 25, tinatayang aabot pa sa ₱168.7-bilyong pondo o 25.43% ng kabuuang ₱665.7 bilyong inilaan para rito ang hindi nagastos ng iba’t ibang ahensya ng gubyernong Duterte simula pa Marso sa […]
Isang magsasaka ang pinatay at 19 sibilyan ang inaresto sa iba’t ibang operasyong militar sa Bicol nitong nagdaang dalawang linggo. Nakapailalim pa rin sa okupasyong militar ang maraming bahagi ng rehiyon. Binaril at napatay ng mga pwersa ng Regional Mobile Force Battalion si Alex Llabres, magsasaka at residente ng Barangay San Roque Heights, Bula, Camarines […]
Nitong nagdaang mga linggo, tig-isang kaso ng pagpaslang at panganganyon ang naiulat sa Negros Occidental, habang 22 pamilya ang nagbakwit sa Surigao del Sur. Limang sibilyan naman ang inaresto sa Bohol, Laguna at Agusan del Sur. Pagpaslang. Pinatay ng mga sundalo ng 3rd ID noong Hunyo 9 si Erming Pacheco, isang Tumandok, sa Sityo Dala-upon, […]