Social basis of Filipino conservatism
By JUSTIN UMALI
IN THE WAKE of Facebookās recent shutdown of state-sponsored fake pages and accounts, itās easy to overlook that there are other aspects...
State-perpetrated killings must stop
ON A RAINY night, 39-year-old health worker and human rights defender Zara Alvarez in Bacolod City was shot and killed (Aug. 17, 2020).
A few...
What we could learn from Capitol Hill
BY JUSTIN UMALI
ON JUNE 8, thousands of American protesters occupied roughly six blocks in Seattle, Washington, barricaded the streets, and declared themselves autonomous. Today,...
Debunking govātās defense of the anti-terror bill
AUTHORS of the anti-terror bill have been trying to defend the proposed measure amid wide condemnation from various groups and individuals.
A senator quipped, āTerrorists...
Terror ways
Terror ways
THE Duterte administration uses scare tactics to prevent Filipinos from joining protest actions against the anti-terror bill.
Over the weekend, netizens who used the...
COVID-19 virus exposes missing government
THE RECENT pronouncement of Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque shows the absence of governance amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After President Rodrigo Duterte asked for emergency...
Speak against darkness
THEY HAVE taken our liberty to move freely. They claimed that the COVID-19 virus remains invisible and largely unknown. For more than two months...
Martial law-like lockdown does not combat COVID-19
THE DUTERTE administration has publicly declared a āmartial law-likeā implementation of the enhanced community quarantine to supposedly fight the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
On Monday,...
Debt-driven pandemic response unacceptable
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte and Finance
secretary Carlos Dominguez III want to make us believe that getting loans and
selling the countryās assets are the most viable...
Disastrous governance
THE government placed the entire Luzon
Island under enhanced community quarantine, a euphemism for total lockdown. To
contain the virus, all residents are required to stay...