Marcos Jr is digging his own grave
- Published: 31 October 2022 31 October 2022
Volume IV, Number 20. 31 October 2022.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines’ rampage in Himamaylan City, Negros Oriental, has already left at least 18,000 rural community residents forcibly displaced, and thousands more traumatized due to relentless artillery shelling and aerial strafing. Their attacks have escalated to the point where they declared parts of the city ‘no man’s land’ and anyone left behind are to be considered shoot-to-kill targets.
Let them eat cake!
- Published: 15 October 2022 15 October 2022
Volume IV, Number 19. 15 October 2022.
The first 100 days of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. was marked with greater economic hardships and repression suffered by the Filipino people. It was marked by skyrocketing prices, increasing unemployment and poverty incidence, decreasing purchasing power, plummeting value of the peso and galloping national debt, not to mention natural disasters. Having already ascended the throne, however, Marcos, Jr. would not be bothered by these trifles.
@NeverForget: Fascism, dictatorship & neocolonial puppetry
- Published: 30 September 2022 30 September 2022
Volume IV, Number 18. 30 September 2022.
The German Embassy to Manila recently offered an international perspective to the barrage of historical revisionism and social brainwashing currently plaguing the Philippines. In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law by President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr, the Germans recalled, “The heavy legacy of the Martial Law period in the Philippines and the records of thousands of victims, killings and enforced disappearances are a call to responsibly engage in and learn from this dark period for a brighter future.”
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Marcos II 2023 Budget: Feed the rich, starve the poor
- Published: 15 September 2022 15 September 2022
Volume IV, Number 17. 15 September 2022.
What better way to highlight a government’s (mis)priorities than its national budget? The proposed PhP5.3 trillion 2023 national budget of the Marcos II regime provides massive payouts for the Office of the President, Office of the Vice President Sara Duterte, national defense, foreign and national debt servicing, discretionary funds and gratuitous infrastructure. On the other hand, it extracts from the already pauperized coffers of essential social services such as health, education, social welfare, labor and the agricultural sector.
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Of sugar barons, retrograde agriculture and Marcos II foul-ups
- Published: 31 August 2022 31 August 2022
Volume IV, Number 16. 31 August 2022.
Barely two months in office, the government of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr hit a snag with the ‘sugar importation fiasco’. On 5 August, the Sugar Regulatory Administration issued Sugar Order No. 4 allowing the importation of 300,000 metric tons of sugar. An uproar from domestic sugarcane landlords forced Marcos Jr to extricate himself from the mess, put the blame on his subordinates and declared the importation “illegal”. A few days later, however, he backtracked and allowed the importation of 150,000 MT, ostensibly to address the increasing demand for industrial sugar supply and skyrocketing retail prices.
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