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Pork barrel 2026 budget fails development
January 5, 2026
Contrary to official claims, the budget does not mark a shift toward a genuinely “people-centered development agenda”. It remains oriented toward short-term political survival rather than long-term development outcomes.
2026 Budget: Sound and fury, signifying…
December 31, 2025
The budget that will soon be signed into law is rhetorically reformist but fundamentally politically functional, achieved at the expense of social and economic transformation.
Gov’t debt balloons to feed Marcos admin’s huge pork barrel addiction
December 9, 2025
The huge increase in debt corresponds to huge increases in controversial indicators of pork barrel in the national budgets under Pres. Marcos Jr.
Groups hold media forum, exposing privatization as systemic theft at play
December 8, 2025
Public funds and resources continue to be used by bureaucrats and private entities to operate and manage public facilities to enrich themselves and stay in power.
Worsening jobs crisis, poverty counters PH economy “stands firm” claims
December 3, 2025
NEWS
The Marcos administration’s claim that the economy stands firm on strong fundamentals is oblivious to how many ordinary Filipinos are struggling amid worsening joblessness and poverty
Why all COPs are bad
November 25, 2025
STATEMENT
Capitalist countries continue to dodge their responsibility for the climate crisis.
Zaldy truth bomb: Co-rruption at the very top?
November 17, 2025
FEATURES
It’s too early to say how much of what Zaldy Co said in his explosive video statement is true. They are however at least plausible. However much, this implicates Marcos Jr in gross fiscal malpractice.
PH economic growth is corruption-driven and exclusionary
November 8, 2025
Economic growth in the third quarter of 2025 is the slowest in 14 years, exposing the corruption-driven and exclusionary nature of the Philippine economy.
