Tag: marcos jr administration

Pax Silica: Whose industrialization is it anyway?

Agosto 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

Agosto 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

Hulyo 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

Hulyo 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.

Hyped economic progress at the expense of Filipinos

Hulyo 25, 2026

The Marcos Jr administration claims economic success, saying that its policies have brought the country to upper middle-income status. But this seeks to hide a deeper reality: the growth model hyped by the government has made a few prosperous at the expense of millions of Filipinos and the environment. The Marcos Jr administration vowed to […]

Rising hardship exposes deep cracks in PH policies ahead of SONA

Hulyo 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.