2022 elections

Pressure point

May 30, 2022

The government’s trademark has been to obscure the truth, peddle its own version of reality, and go on ahead with its most-often carefully thought-out programs that make the local and foreign super-rich happy. The newly-proclaimed leaders of the land made it clear that they’re not changing that.

No Moving on When Democracy is Threatened with Elitist, Authoritarian Politics

May 25, 2022

Filipino educators join the mounting calls of concerned citizens, communities and people’s organizations for the COMELEC to not dismiss and instead to seriously investigate reports of fraud, disinformation, disenfranchisement, and vote-buying in the 2022 national elections.

Red-tagging Kontra Daya convenor delusional–IBON

May 20, 2022

It is delusional and malicious to say that these simple capacity-building activities are organized by the Central Committee of the CPP through Arao as alleged

31 million

May 19, 2022

We are seeing so-called writers being paid to weave lies, peddle a revised version of history, and shape a generation of mindless and uncritical citizens who shall forget their history lessons and shall have a distorted sense of democracy. And there is no solidarity between these so-called writers and the basic masses – there is only treachery.

How Representative Is Our House of Representatives?

April 11, 2022

How representative is the House of Representatives (HOR) if 95% of 304 district and party-list representatives come from the richest 2% of 110.2 million Filipinos?

The Price of Public Office

April 11, 2022

It apparently costs so much to wage and win electoral campaigns for national and local positions. Tens of billions of pesos will be spent in the run-up to the May 2022 elections — in the end, who really pays the price of public office that too often just goes to those who spend the most?

Political sinfulness of the 2022 presidentiables (Disinformation)

April 9, 2022

The May 2022 national elections are a month away. Who among the leading presidential candidates will most likely bring into office the age-old political sin of the 21st century problem of massive disinformation?

Political sinfulness of the 2022 presidentiables (Authoritarianism)

April 9, 2022

The May 2022 national elections are a month away. Who among the leading presidential candidates will most likely bring into office the age-old political sins?