NDFP assails Marcos regime’s confidential and intelligence funds
- Published: 02 October 2023 02 October 2023
In a statement published 28 September, Malaya Asedillo, Spokesperson for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines - Laguna (NDFP-Laguna) assailed the Marcos Jr regime for including huge confidential and intelligence funds, P5.277 billion and P4.864 billion, respectively, in the 2024 national budget while slashing funds for social services and the needs of the public.
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NTF-Elcac ‘shot itself in the foot’ in its own presser on 2 missing envi activists
- Published: 02 October 2023 02 October 2023
The 19 September press conference of the NTF-Elcac (National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict) seemingly backfired after two previously missing environmental activists were presented to the public as ‘surrenderees’ only to reveal that they had been abducted and tortured by the military. The statements of environmental activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano at the press conference caught the NTF-Elcac off guard who immediately deleted the live feed from their Facebook account.
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Sara Duterte's P125M 'confidential funds' questioned
- Published: 10 September 2023 10 September 2023
House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Partylist Representative France Castro questioned Vice President Sara Duterte’s P125 million ($7.1 million) confidential funds. According to documents from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the Office of the Vice President (OVP) spent the said money in just a period of 19 days.
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GRP suffers heavy losses amid bluster to ‘defeat NPA’ within Marcos Jr term
- Published: 08 September 2023 08 September 2023
The US-Marcos regime recently incurred heavy losses after a series of tactical offensives launched by the New People’s Army (NPA) in Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao and in Quezon Province, Southern Tagalog in the last two months. This is despite recent remarks made by the GRP’s National Security Adviser Eduardo Año claiming that the GRP will ‘defeat the NPA’ within Marcos Jr’s term.
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Groups alarmed over rising cases of forced disappearances under Marcos Jr
- Published: 08 September 2023 08 September 2023
Human rights groups trooped the Manila Court of Appeals calling to surface missing activists in commemoration of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance last 30 August. Led by the group Desaparacidos (organization of families and friends of the disappeared), families and friends of victims sounded alarm over the increasing cases of enforced disappearances under the Marcos administration.
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PH must ‘stand up to the Chinese Titan and American Colossus’ – CPP
- Published: 28 August 2023 28 August 2023
Amid China’s continued aggression against Filipino ships and fishermen in the disputed waters, the United States, Australia, and the GRP recently held naval drills in the West Philippine Sea last 25 August. The military exercise, called “ALON war games,” was staged in Palawan, 200 kilometers from the Spratly Group of Islands. According to reports, the war games simulated the retaking of an enemy-controlled island.
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NDFP warns of ‘heightened state terrorism’ as Marcos Jr unrolls new security policy
- Published: 28 August 2023 28 August 2023
“We expect heightened state terrorism and more violations of people’s rights as the US-Marcos regime unrolls its new security policy,” said Luis Jalandoni, Chief International Representative of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in a statement released last 18 August.
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