The Long Game of Development

Disyembre 8, 2024

The current era remains fundamentally neoliberal in essence, agenda and practice – state power over the economy is still systematically wielded for the benefit of a few. In particular, the so-called market reforms that have made capitalist elites so prosperous remain in place.

Marcos Jr Carries on Neoliberal Arc Started by His Dictator Father

Setyembre 20, 2023

After Marcos, cronyism was craftly used to justify even greater liberalization, privatization and deregulation during the administrations that followed. Today, Marcos Jr carries on this neoliberal arc started and backed by his father’s regime.

The G7 summit: Will Hiroshima deliver the economic interests behind militarism?

Mayo 19, 2023

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What the G7 wants and the manner it exacts these are untenable and are only bound to hurt the majority of the world’s populations.

BBM’s US trip: It’s all about US

Mayo 9, 2023

The current Marcos Jr administration will have US support despite its deeply corrupt, dynastic and rights-violating character. Or at least as long as the US keeps getting what it wants, and the Philippines doesn’t ask for anything that the US doesn’t want to give — like real freedom and development, or sovereignty and independence.

IBON Executive Director on Pres. Marcos Jr’s meeting with US Pres. Biden

Mayo 2, 2023

IBON Executive Director on Pres. Marcos Jr’s meeting with US Pres. Biden

One Philippines, two worlds

Marso 1, 2023

The Marcos Jr administration is spinning a dark lie to give the impression that the situation of ordinary Filipinos is improving. The real and whole truth is that it isn’t and, if anything, has even gotten worse in the first few months of the new government.

IBON on the 37th anniversary of the EDSA uprising

Pebrero 24, 2023

EDSA 1986 was a people’s uprising to oust the dictator Marcos for his immense political and economic sins. The Philippines was made the better and democracy struggles stronger for this.

The world’s converging crises: How did we get here?

Oktubre 20, 2022

The world economy is faced with converging crises – high debt levels, food and fuel inflation, weakening currencies, and a climate emergency that makes the planet’s very future uncertain. It’s a perfect storm for everyone, but it is having a disproportionate impact on poor countries and their poor populations.

What the Marcos Dictatorship Really Did to the Economy

Setyembre 24, 2022

The Marcos regime’s extreme cronyism and corruption is commonly blamed. However, the steady shift to neoliberal economic policies is weightier in explaining the depth of collapse in the early 1980s and the subsequent lost decades of development. The article “What the Marcos Dictatorship Really Did to the Economy” is a contribution to the Tanggol Kasaysayan […]