Who’s to blame for our bad manners?

Another look at education

August 19, 2026

Instead of addressing the education crisis, the Marcos Jr government is simply fixated on mass-producing a labor force tailored to the needs of the global market.

Filipinos can’t keep up with prices as wages lag and government help falls short

August 15, 2026

ANALYSIS

Filipinos continue to struggle with the high cost of living as prices keep rising faster than what their incomes can keep up with.

Pax Silica: Whose industrialization is it anyway?

August 12, 2026

The shiny cutting edge high-tech Pax Silica may indeed be different this time. Unfortunately, the way things are going, it will be different in the sense of a new level of dependence and making real Filipino industrialization even harder.

A vow to the pangi tree

August 10, 2026

The pangi tree will bear fruit again and again, season after season, long after those who sought to silence the forest are gone.

EPIRA@25: Power reform failure

July 29, 2026

Twenty-five years after EPIRA’s enactment, the country’s experience points to the need for a fundamentally different approach to the power sector.

Pax Silica’s Cookie-Crumb Investments Will Not Feed the Philippines

July 29, 2026

Through Pax Silica, the Marcos Jr administration allows the plunder of the country’s resources for fleeting cheap jobs and false promises of industrialization.

Rising hardship exposes deep cracks in PH policies ahead of SONA

July 24, 2026

[NEWS]

As the 5th SONA fast approaches, the worsening economic crisis burdening ordinary Filipinos will deepen as the Marcos Jr administration clings to a failed market-driven framework that favors big business and the wealthy few.

Bleak jobs situation bursts Marcos admin’s UMIC bubble – IBON

July 8, 2026

UMIC status is irrelevant when considering that millions of Filipinos are struggling to make a living or find decent employment.

Higher prices for rice, LPG, electricity squeeze Filipino families

July 7, 2026

Price hikes show that government’s touted measures to address high prices are not easing the burden on already struggling Filipino households.