This was not brainwashing. This was enlightenment.
Teddy Casiño
Life, death and everything in between
Solving our ‘unli’ rice crisis
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or an agriculture secretary to see what needs to be done. Long term solutions are actually contained in countless policy papers, program designs and pieces of legislation. The problem is that no government has had the perseverance and political will to actually see them through.
NutriAsia skirts the law to oppress workers, hide its greed
NutriAsia is, in fact, engaged in one of the oldest tricks in the contractualization handbook: using a third party (a manpower agency or, in this case, B-MIRK) to skirt its obligations as an employer.
The radicalization of Maria Lourdes Sereno
Tyranny, oppression, and the struggle for justice, freedom and democracy have a strange way of turning people into fighters.
In defense of Myles Albasin
Indeed, why would she abandon a comfortable bourgeois life to live among poor peasants in some faraway barrio? Why the choice for the road less traveled?
Boracay and the Duterte way
The Boracay closure follows the familiar pattern of Duterte’s approach to addressing complex crisis situations. The approach relies heavily on police and military action, and projects Duterte as a tough, no-nonsense leader.
Duterte’s Cha-Cha disempowers Filipinos, especially poor, marginalized
Duterte’s Cha-Cha will in fact create a new dictatorship even as it strengthens and expands the political dynasties’ monopoly on power.
Duterte’s Cha-Cha reverses gains of EDSA
At the very least, these proposed amendments grant immense powers to Duterte and effectively dismantle whatever system of checks and balances there is
