Advocacies

Hyped economic progress at the expense of Filipinos

July 25, 2026

The Marcos Jr administration claims economic success, saying that its policies have brought the country to upper middle-income status. But this seeks to hide a deeper reality: the growth model hyped by the government has made a few prosperous at the expense of millions of Filipinos and the environment. The Marcos Jr administration vowed to […]

Increasing food import dependence

July 21, 2026

Increasing food dependency ratio is a sign of shrinking capacity to feed ourselves. This is not an accident. It’s an outcome of decades of neglect of PH agriculture.

US military presence in the Philippines, 2022-June 2026

July 10, 2026

The US military is spreading its forces, equipment, and logistics across multiple sites nationwide instead of concentrating them in a few large bases, to make them harder to locate, target, and disable simultaneously. In effect, this makes the whole Philippines a target for foreign military strikes.