marcos jr administration

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.