The San Miguel Corporation has been boasting of its huge contributions to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Behind its humanitarian facade, however, is its oppressive treatment to people to further squeeze profits through their misery. While its president Ramon Ang is busy with its donation drives, other personnel are also busy evicting thousands of […]

In July 8, the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases allowed the opening of barbershops, parlors and salons up to 50% of their regular clientele in Metro Manila. Among the IATF’s requisites is for all costumers to use contact tracing applications like the StaySafe.Ph. StaySafe.Ph is a phone application which registers the location […]

Three barangay watchmen were abducted by police and soldiers on July 4 at midnight and were massacred in the boundary of ba­ra­ngays Ba­gacay and Ma­rin­toc in Mobo, Masbate. The victims, identified as Edgar Mingoy, Marlon Bajar and Rolly de la Cruz, were all falsely presented before the media as members of the New People’s Army […]

The order of Sec. Eduardo Año of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to the Philippine National Police (PNP) to do “house-to-house” to search and “apprehend” and bring Covid-19 positive individuals to quarantine facilities is another militarist measure. Año’s new order will further trample on civil rights. This goes against even the reactionary […]

A former official of the Supreme Court asserted that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army (NPA) cannot be declared terrorists under the new Anti-Terror Act (ATA). Former Associate Justice Antonio Carpio shared this view in reaction to Duterte’s declaration that “the CPP is terrorist because I declare it to […]