Peasant and farmworker groups protested at the Department of Agriculture in Quezon City to mark the 7th anniversary of the enactment of the rice import liberalization law last February 13. Rice imports rose from 2.57 million tons to over 5 million tons from 2019 to 2026. This drove down palay farmgate prices, from an average […]

Amid anti-China criticisms by Philippine Coast Guard officials, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and by pro-US senators—who engage in pretentious promotion of Philippine sovereignty—the US relentlessly conducts aggressive and interventionist military and naval maneuvers in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). These maneuvers heighten the possibility of armed clashes erupting between the US and China, […]

For nearly a decade of fake transportation modernization program, conditions of drivers and commuters in the country have sharply worsened. The Public Transport Modernization Program (PTMP), formerly Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program or “jeepney phaseout,” removed over 180,000 jeeps from the streets and took away the livelihood of roughly 500,000 drivers and operators. Millions of […]

The Philippine government and the US signed an agreement on February 4 for the “development of cooperation” in mining critical minerals and rare earths in the country. The government formed the agreement while attending the 2026 Critical Mineral Ministerial held in Washington. Besides the Philippines, the US signed similar bilateral agreements with 10 other countries. […]