Mar 30, 2021, Mara Cepeda MANILA, Philippines The 1Sambayan coalition must remember that their true enemy is the Duterte regime. Not themselves. To defeat President Rodrigo Duterte’s anointed one in 2022, opposition forces must leave their ivory towers. That line alone will certainly raise not a few eyebrows among those who identify themselves as part…
Jan 16, 2021, Rae Rival ‘The Build, Build, Build project is ruthlessly rolling on despite the urban and rural poor’s resistance…. Why is Duterte not working and designing people-funded projects with and for them?’ We mourn the death of Christine Dacera, but I cannot help but wish that the massacres committed in the past 4…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer /January 05, 2021 Yet another embarrassing gaffe by officials in charge of facilitating the quarantine of passengers arriving in the country happened when more than 100 Filipino and foreign passengers who arrived from the United States and South Korea on Dec. 29 were brought to a hotel where they were to…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / December 20, 2020 It’s an old story that has been retold so often it’s become something of a cliché. As The History Channel tells it, “at the first light of dawn on Christmas Day (in 1914), some German soldiers emerged from their trenches and approached the Allied lines across no-man’s-land,…
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Dec 20, 2020, Pam Maranca Sabi nung katrabaho ko na Puti/White dapat daw ang Amerika katulad na lang ng mga Asian countries, tulad ng Pilipinas. Kasi sa Pilipinas daw kapag sinabi ng pangulong huwag lumabas ng bahay o kaya ay magsuot ng mask dahil pandemic, sumusunod ang mga tao at hindi na nakikipagtalo pa. Manghang-mangha…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / December 19, 2020 The Duterte administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be a series of air balls, the latest of which, according to government officials themselves, is its failure to secure a reliable, affordable vaccine as early as next month. For a government that has pinned its hopes…
Vantage Point by Luis V. Teodoro, December 11, 2020 Whenever President Rodrigo Duterte’s military and police minions or he himself “red-tags”— or, as it was known in the 1950s, red-baits — a women’s organization, a journalists’ union or any other group that dares criticize the regime, they inevitably label it a “legal front” of the…
‘By militarizing, terrorizing, and Red-labeling, Duterte hopes to create a climate of fear that would allow him to keep power or pass it on to a trusted successor in order to escape accountability for the crimes of his regime’ Dec 12, 2020, Vergel O. Santos There’s every reason – much of it clinical, to be…