Agents of the 9th ID’s 96th Military Intelligence Company (MICO) abducted and forced a local peasant into a van in Barangay Cabangcalan, Placer, Masbate on March 29 at 6 a.m. The victim was identified as Junior Tuling, 56 years old. Tuling had previously been a victim of the military’s forced surrender. In 2021, the soldiers […]

The leadership of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) expressed displeasure with Ferdinand Marcos Jr for appointing Abdulraof Macacua as the new interim chief minister of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA). Its Central Committee said Marcos did not consult them and bypassed its recommendation to retain the current chief minister Ahod Ebrahim (Al Haj Murad). […]

  Marawi unites for Palestinian people. Approximately 800 residents of Marawi City launched a “solidarity run” at the city’s “Ground Zero” on March 27 to support the Palestinian people, after Israel ended the ceasefire and bombed Gaza anew. The barefoot participants chanted “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” […]

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted from power on April 4 after the Constitutional Court upheld his impeachment by parliament on December 14, 2024. The impeachment stemmed from Yoon’s martial law declaration on December 3, 2024, which was deemed as an attempted coup. Having been removed from the presidency, Yoon may now face […]

Hundreds of thousands of Americans, mostly workers, poured into streets and parks on April 5 across all 50 states in the US to condemn the various anti-people policies of Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk. An estimated 250,000 participated in 1,200 protests and gatherings nationwide. The actions were dubbed as the “Hands Off!” […]