Counting laws, missing the point: Who deserves the Senate?

May 12, 2025

While prior experience in the Senate might seem important for lawmakers to have, it is also important to see what stand they have taken on certain government practices.

Beyond EDCA

May 8, 2025

The Marcos Jr government is allowing the US military to access facilities beyond the agreed nine EDCA sites – like Subic Bay, a former US military base. This has effectively turned the Philippines into one big US military base, placing the country and Filipinos on the frontlines of a conflict they won’t benefit from.

More weapons, more problems

May 8, 2025

Trump 2.0 and Marcos Jr administration’s acceleration efforts to deter China include the Philippines procuring more military equipment, especially weapons. But this makes the country and Filipinos even more of a target as US-China tensions escalate.

Falling employment, higher underemployment signs of unsolved PH jobs crisis-IBON

May 8, 2025

The rise in underemployment reflects the unresolved jobs crisis where existing jobs pay poorly.

How do the senatorial candidates fare on high prices?

April 25, 2025

When the urban poor say no

April 22, 2025

Urban poor communities are being demolished to make way for business establishments promising job opportunites. But this is meaningless if they are relocated far from where these jobs are.

Trump’s hyper-neoliberalism

April 21, 2025

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While the Trump administration represents a rupture from neoliberal globalization, its protectionist stance reflects a deeper continuity. Trump is not repudiating neoliberalism but rather accelerating and concentrating it.

Who will stand with the poor?

April 19, 2025

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The 2025 elections shall be a game-changer. It shall make us learn the hard way that real democratic change through elections will come when we find policymakers and leaders who are working with the poor in their daily difficulties, in their struggles for a better nation.

US PH Tariff: Govt’s misguided optimism

April 16, 2025

The Philippine government has taken a simplistic view of the tariff imposition.