As much as they would like to deny it, top officials in the Duterte administration – along with allied online propagandists – are scrambling
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If Duterte is truly sorry for the plight of farmers, he should repeal the Rice Tariffication Law
The price of palay – or unprocessed rice – is in a free-fall, bringing misery to our already impoverished rice farmers. Sadly, the plummeting
Malacañang’s complacency about the transport crisis shows how out of touch it is with everyday Filipinos
Metropolitan Manila is notorious for its chaotic traffic, which was rated as the worst in the world by GPS-navigation app Waze in 2015. The
Despite pushing for universal healthcare, the Duterte government slashed billions off the health budget
Supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte were jubilant when he signed the Universal Healthcare Act into law early this year. It fulfilled his key campaign
The pork barrel lives on under the Duterte regime
In August 2013, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos marched along the streets of Metropolitan Manila to express their outrage at the revelations of the
A war on the law: 47 jurists have been killed under Rodrigo Duterte’s watch
An anti-mining lawyer survived an assassination attempt this week in Capiz province, while she was on board a vehicle with her daughter and a
“She who did not bend her knee”: why the elites pushed for Judy Taguiwalo’s eviction from Cabinet
In the hit TV series Game of Thrones, the despotic rulers you meet throughout its eight seasons would all talk about making others, “bend
Political will or political gimmicks?
Many were flummoxed when the Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo expressed the current administration was open to reusing the controversial Dengvaxia vaccine in response to
The demonisation of indigenous schools continues
In July 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte declared during a televised news conference that indigenous Lumad schools were “teaching children to rebel against the government”
In memory of: the separation of powers of the Philippine government
The Philippines is defined in the 1987 Constitution as being a “republican state”, this means that it follows the republican structure of government wherein