Features
Not another PhilHealth mess, please
August 25, 2024
Why is the Marcos Jr government maneuvering to centralize PhilHealth’s robust funds when ordinary Filipinos – the PhilHealth members and sponsored indigents – are receiving less and less health services? This is unraveling to be just one of the many ironies in the Marcos Jr government’s optimistic portrayal of the national situation.
Are there less poor Filipinos?
July 26, 2024
There is much to be done to develop the Philippines. Among the first steps is being more honest about the real extent of poverty and underdevelopment.
5 economic distortions to watch out for in Marcos Jr’s 3rd SONA
July 22, 2024
Some bold distortions about the economy and the situation of the people, not the truth, can be expected at the third Marcos Jr SONA.
Non-alignment to benefit from West Philippine Sea
July 10, 2024
COMMENTARY
The Philippines is so desirable for the US and for China because it is a geographically self-standing archipelago with an incomparably strategic location.
Global victims of US military aggression
July 6, 2024
US’ military interventions globally range from direct military actions to covert operations to military support for client states. Lasting from days or weeks to over many years, these result in significant loss of life.
Why farmers in SJDM are under attack
July 5, 2024
Farming communities in San Jose Del Monte have become vital sources of agricultural products for Metro Manila. They have established their residence, economy, and self-sustaining organizations over the years. But trouble would always come to this seeming paradise.
Against all repression, Spring is coming
June 19, 2024
Undemocracy and inequality and its attendant oppression and exploitation is what spurs so much resistance.
Philippine economy so right it’s wrong
June 18, 2024
The Philippine Economic Briefing tried so hard to show that everything is right with the economy that it only succeeded in showing everything that’s so wrong with it.
Independent? How the Philippines still serves US economic interests
June 13, 2024
All the celebratory hullabaloo and hype of “hard-won independence” and being a “free country” distorts how Philippine independence is nominal without true self-determination.
