On the corruption and incompetence in preparing and holding the 30th Southeast Asian games
I am appalled and disgusted by the Duterte regime’s naked and shameless incompetence, waste and plunder of public funds in the mismanagement of the hosting of the 30th Southeast Asian Games
On Duterte firing Robredo as ICAD co-chair
Duterte was clearly never sincere in appointing VP Leni Robredo as co-chair of the Inter-agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD)
Comment on the better part of the pro-Duterte congress
It is fine that from 64 there are now 78 congressmen signing the petition to stop the crackdown on the legal patriotic and progressive organizations
On the worsening problem of unemployment and other dismal economic and social conditions
The underemployment figure is usually far higher than the unemployment figure and is always used to conceal full unemployment
On Duterte’s false promise of clean elections in 2022
The rigging of the mid-term elections was most evident during the so many hours of blackout of the vote count for senatorial and party list candidates
Comment on 10 million Filipinos losing jobs in third quarter of 2019
The Philippine labor force is 44 million. If 10 million lost their jobs, that is a whopping 23 per cent of the labor force added to the ranks of the unemployed
On the frenzied brutal efforts of Duterte to militarize and make the Philippines fascist
It is neither the Filipino people’s struggle for national and social liberation nor the far future of communism that is the cause of intolerable oppression and exploitation but the semicolonial and semifeudal ruling system
Sison: Gov’t anti-insurgency programs milking cows of corrupt officials
“The corrupt military and civilian officials would rather make money on fake development and fake community support projects and fake surrenders, and fake casualties for pure psywar, thus further bankrupting the reactionary government,”
Comment on Duterte’s NTF-ELCAC and pipedream
Because of the militarization and fascisation of the reactionary government under the NTF-ELCAC, civil and military personnel and resources are being misallocated and bureaucratic and military corruption is heavily fed
Duterte and his minions are now worrying that the US intelligence agencies are already providing information to Robredo
Duterte and his minions are now worrying that the US intelligence agencies are already providing information to Robredo about the massive laundering of drug money through Dennis Uy’s rapid purchases of major Philippine assets, the operations of the Duterte drug empire and the involvement of top military and police officers in drug smuggling and wholesale […]