By DEE AYROSO
Day: March 17, 2019
PH withdrawal from ICC to worsen impunity, groups say
“The Duterte government is run by pathological liars and militarists who are corrupt to the core, able to subvert laws and mechanisms to evade accountability.”
Racist — and colonial
TO BELIEVE and argue that black people are inherently violent or that all Jews are money-grubbing scoundrels is to presume that race is the determinant of certain vices and virtues. It is nothing but racism, and those who harbor that presumption qualify as racists. Themselves the subjects and targets of racism, Filipinos can be racist…
Facing up to drug war killings, Duterte turns to fatalism
“For the things I have said, ordered and done, I am willing to put my neck here. Maybe someday, this ICC [International Criminal Court]… if they decide to hang me I would be very glad to go.” With a fatalistic twinge, President Duterte was quoted as having said this last Wednesday, as he considered the…
Privatization is creating an artificial water shortage
Focusing on just Manila Water diverts the issue away from privatization as the central issue in, and underlying reason behind, the artificial shortage. As such, it also has the effect of absolving government of responsibility when in fact, the biggest accountability in all this lies with government for abandoning its duty to ensure water for the people.