On Trump tariff hikes: PH subservience is not strategy

Hulyo 10, 2025

Subservience isn’t strategy—sovereignty is. A government that charts an independent economic path for the Philippines is long overdue.

IBON Research Head on DBCC cut of 2025-2028 growth forecasts

Hunyo 27, 2025

On US bombing of Iran

Hunyo 22, 2025

The US serves its hegemonic ambitions and military-industrial corporate profits at the expense of people’s rights, national sovereignty, and global peace.

Sara Duterte’s confidential and intelligence funds could have been used for PH education needs

Hunyo 19, 2025

Impunity and underdevelopment under Marcos Jr

Hunyo 14, 2025

When populists take power, the people become fodder for self-serving ambition, and our goals for development and human rights are, at best, afterthoughts. At worst, they’re trampled on for being inconvenient obstacles to personal wealth and power. The spectacle of political theater and intentional delay of the vice-president’s impeachment trial in the Senate confirms institutional […]

Gaining from non-alignment

Hunyo 14, 2025

PH largest recipient of US foreign aid in Southeast Asia

Hunyo 14, 2025

Half-million drop in manufacturing: Jobs crisis highlights urgency of Filipino industrialization – IBON

Hunyo 8, 2025

Despite government claims of job resilience, research group IBON said that the country’s jobs crisis persists with significant manufacturing losses and worsening quality of work. The year-on-year increase in unemployed and underemployed Filipinos, lack of decent work, and huge drop in manufacturing jobs underscore the urgent need for a serious national industrialization strategy to create […]

Great Cabinet Revamp is a dud

Mayo 25, 2025

There’s no doubt that a revamp of government, governance and the Cabinet is overdue. But the Cabinet revamp can’t just be recycling combined with superficially new names or faces. It should mean new ideas for solving old problems and the political will to act on them.