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Philhealth chief Ricardo Morales, executives face corruption allegations amid pandemic (Photo grabbed from PhilHealth’s website) By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Progressives are calling on the Duterte administration to hold accountable ranking officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation over the alleged P15-billion corruption. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said President Rodrigo Duterte “wants…

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“This shows that the Pandi 4 didn’t do anything wrong in the first place. But the police who perpetrated this suppression of civil liberties should be held accountable. BY AARON MACARAEG Bulatlat.com MANILA – Four women members of urban poor group Kadamay were freed today, August 5, following the dismissal of charges against them. Janet…

The pandemic is forcing us to be more critical of the repressive state even as we reexamine our methods and ideas about doing politics under the so-called new normal. Citizens started to wear protective face masks at almost the same time when the state’s authoritarian identity is laid bare with little or no effort to…

“They have repeatedly weaponized social media to proliferate blatant and dangerous fabrications against activists and critics through red-tagging, or when local officials post violent ‘shoot-to-kill’ threats against the public — violent threats hewn directly from the president’s own violent and terroristic threats.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Human rights alliance Karapatan said…