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A fertilizer crisis unfolds

April 27, 2026

Extensive US overseas military bases for domination not defense – IBON

May 27, 2024

POGOs not an essential sector, only 0.23% of gov’t annual tax revenues

May 4, 2020

Beware of onerous China ODA – IBON

November 19, 2018

Drop plan on Chinese telco, IBON urges Duterte

November 30, 2017

DepEd streamlining of Grade 10 Social Studies ignores democracy, governance lessons–EFD

July 5, 2017

Reject moves to further weaken investment regulation at RCEP talks – IBON

May 10, 2017

Boost job generation by developing Filipino agri, industry–IBON

July 20, 2016

Features

The second Trump presidency deepens rather than resolves the crises of US imperialism, sharpening contradictions both at home and abroad.

US imperial decline and escalation

October 24, 2025

The global economy is being dragged down by fundamental forces that even the mighty US is still captive to. It may be the world’s dominant imperialist power but it is still merely monopoly capitalist and as such subject to the deeply-ingrained contradictions of capitalism.

Growing global economic distress as G7 meet ends

May 22, 2023

FEATURES

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.

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

May 19, 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.

BBM’s US trip: It’s all about US

May 9, 2023

Features | President Duterte has reportedly ordered a review of loan agreements to determine if any are onerous and disadvantageous to the Filipino people. Yet the Kaliwa Dam project which has come under fire for its unfavorable Chinese loan agreement has already started.

Four reasons why the Kaliwa Dam Project loan is onerous

October 11, 2020

BY ROSARIO GUZMAN

In the face of the Filipino people’s growing anxieties about COVID-19 and life after the lockdown, president Duterte keeps heaping praises on China.

Why do we keep on begging China for friendship?

April 21, 2020

Infographics

US military spending largest in the world

China ODA funds half of water resource projects under Duterte’s Flagship Infra

China’s energy investments around the world

China a growing but still minor ODA partner of the Philippines