Duterte’s falling out with the Left
Today the dream is gone. The marriage is ended.
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Teddy Casiño
Life, death and everything in between
Human rights advocacy IS a biased endeavor
The CHR and human rights groups in general have traditionally functioned as watchdogs of state-perpetrated human rights violations for good reason. It’s because the state and state agents, vested with vast political and police powers, are in the most likely position to violate the rights of ordinary people and get away with it.
The Left’s patience with Duterte
With his regime not only careening to the Right but also teetering on the brink of open fascist rule, the Left’s cooperation with Mr. Duterte is at a breaking point.
Change is wanting: Dutertenomics and foreign policy
Despite positive efforts, the President has failed to depart significantly from the neoliberal economic policies of previous governments.
He has also tried but failed to recalibrate our dependent, neocolonial relations with the US, and appears intent on merely replicating the same with China and Russia.
All this leads to more doubts on his promise of change.
After one year, Duterte veers ever more to the right
Swept to office last year on the promise of sweeping changes, President Rodrigo Duterte and his government are proving to be a hindrance to the country’s most urgent political and socio-economic reforms.
The curious case of our political prisoners
The existence of such prisoners of conscience is a slap on any country that claims to be democratic.
What’s the cure for an ailing PNP?
After more than a century of serving colonial masters, local dynasties and oligarchs, and after experiencing absolute power under martial law, today’s Philippine National Police (PNP) has become hopelessly mercenary and criminal.
Sometimes, the only way to fix a problem is to get rid of it.
Poetic justice
It is poetic justice indeed that a poor peasant from Nueva Ecija , a veteran in the struggle to liberate his class from feudal bondage and oppression, is now leading the way in transforming the agency that for years has been used to undermine this very struggle. It’s payback time.
