The Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM) is lying when it announced that 65% of the rehabilitation of Marawi City is already “complete.” This was the statement of Drieza Lininding of the Moro Consensus Group last May 23 on the fourth anniversary of the Marawi Siege which resulted in the destruction of the city. On the […]

The Isnag minorities of Cordillera strongly oppose the Gened Hyrdoelectric Power Plant, a project for the construction of two megadams that will inundate their communities. They said that they are against the project as it encroaches on their ancestral land, contrary to claims by the company that residents entered into an agreement with the company. […]

Rodrigo Duterte’s subservience to China has further escalated in recent months. From his defeatist response to tensions at the West Philippine Sea, to the issuance of policies such as the Executive Order No. 160 which favors Chinese mining operations in the country, Duterte is outrightly selling off the sovereignty of the country. In exchange for […]

Forbes Magazine is one of the leading magazines of the monopoly capitalist world. It recently released its latest list of the biggest 2,000 corporations. It is instructive to study the list to come up with an overall view of the current picture of the global capitalist system: who are the biggest capitalists and the level […]

An “improved” Visiting Forces Agreement, supposedly a result of weeks of negotiations between US and Philippine panels, can only mean one thing: more US military support for Duterte’s terror war against the Filipino people. Duterte pushed for the VFA’s renegotiation under his “pera-pera lang iyan” foreign policy, as a way of seeking more material and […]