bureaucrat capitalism

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.

Most Guilty: Pork to Power

October 30, 2025

Calling out oligarchs

October 17, 2025

The Anatomy of Corruption

September 20, 2025

The pork barrel system has become the most efficient way for politicians to gain control of public funds.

Selective, self-serving

September 12, 2025

The Marcos Jr’s administration seeming crackdown on corruption is not real if it is selective.

Word-class bureaucrat capitalism under Marcos added to PH econ woes

November 24, 2016

“This narrative highlights the evils of dictatorship and abuse of power. But it falters in explaining why, over three decades after the end of the Marcos regime, the economy still remains so backward in the things that matter – job creation, poverty reduction, agricultural and industrial development, and policy sovereignty. “Bureaucrat capitalism under Marcos was […]

Anyare? Economic decline since Marcos

May 5, 2016

The Marcos dictatorship started the Philippines on a path of economic decline that remains until today. This has already had the worst consequences for tens of millions of Filipinos across two generations. Unless corrected, it will burden generations to come. The Philippine economy’s decline since the 1980s is commonly attributed to the Marcos regime’s corruption […]