Philippine history has enshrined the 21st of September as the date when deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. However, another date that we Filipinos should familiarize ourselves with in… Continue reading "Remembering the First Quarter Storm: the beginning of the end for the Marcos regime"
Signalling the start of their 2020 election campaign, National Party leader Simon Bridges and several of his party colleagues are making a working visit to the Philippines to allegedly boost… Continue reading "Simon Bridges and his National MPs are fraternizing with staunch acolytes of Duterte’s brutal drug war"
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has found probable cause to indict former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Oscar Albayalde on charges of graft and corruption, in relation to the infamous… Continue reading "Former Police chief Albayalde falls: What was the 2013 Pampanga drug raid and who are the ‘ninja cops’?"
In Philippine politics, disaster relief can make or break a politician’s career. Take for instance the response the previous Aquino government had in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013,… Continue reading "Taal’s eruption exposes the Duterte administration’s lack of preparedness for disaster relief"
Since the beginning of the Trump Presidency, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been treated as public enemy number one in the eyes of the United States. That animosity reached… Continue reading "A long history of Western intervention in Iran"
President Rodrigo Duterte has never been shy to voice out criticism towards the United States. In 2016 he called their former President Barack Obama a “son of a whore”, the… Continue reading "Despite Duterte’s rhetoric, the Philippines is still and always have been an American semi-colony"
Vice President Leni Robredo, a member of the main opposition Liberal Party (LP), was surprisingly appointed to co-chair the Duterte administration’s Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) in November 2019.… Continue reading "Innocent lives were lost and families torn apart for a drug war that only culled 1 percent of the drug trade"
As the clock struck midnight on the final day of 2019, Filipinos not only welcomed in a new year but also the end of martial law in Mindanao. The imposition… Continue reading "Martial Law in Mindanao: What did it achieve?"
As the year draws to a close, the fate of the country’s largest media conglomerate is basking in uncertainty. ABS-CBN Corporation, with a recorded Php40 billion peso annual revenue in… Continue reading "Explaining Duterte’s fixation with ABS-CBN"
As much as they would like to deny it, top officials in the Duterte administration – along with allied online propagandists – are scrambling to respond to news that the… Continue reading "The Duterte administration deserves the global indignation it is receiving"
