Two barangay officials in Albay were killed last Monday after exposing abuses committed by AFP troops in their village. Barangay Captain Luzviminda Dayandante and Treasurer Albert Orbina of Barangay Batbat, Guinobatan, Albay were on their way home when they were ambushed in Barangay Sinungtan by elements of the 49th Infantry Battalion. READ: NPA-Albay condemns killings […]

Read in: Bisaya Gen. Gilbert Gapay, AFP chief, was apparently high on some hallucinogenic substance when he claimed yesterday that the New People’s Army (NPA) is on the decline with “so many rebels surrendering.” There is absolutely no basis in reality for the general’s claims. The AFP’s propaganda about the “weakened” state of the NPA […]

The return of hundreds of thousands and eventually millions of overseas Filipino workers will make ever more untenable and incendiary the chronic crisis of the underdeveloped and semifeudal economy of the Philippines. They are rejoining the ranks of the unemployed, where the hope of employment has been dimmed by the plunder of the public treasury, […]

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) welcomed on Thursday the Philippine Human Rights Act introduced by Rep. Susan Wild to block funding for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police over widespread reports of human rights violations. Rep. Wild cited the recently passed Anti-Terror Act saying that is being […]

Read in: Bisaya Duterte kept to his ghost-written speech and was able to spare the UN General Assembly from his usual vulgarities before Philippine audiences. But he could not avoid dishing a number of lies and slanderous remarks against his own compatriots who are victims of his maladminsitration and human right violations. He sounded most […]