Appellate court stops Mary Jane’s written testimony
Court of Appeals stops what could have been Mary Jane Veloso's first-time testimony on her ordeal.
Appellate court stops Mary Jane’s written testimony
Why the climate crisis won’t be solved without a massive increase in forest protection
Why the climate crisis won’t be solved without a massive increase in forest protection
Forests are the only systems we have that can suck carbon out of the atmosphere within the time frame necessary to save humanity.
NPA frees soldier captives
NPA frees soldier captives
MANILA -- The New People’s Army (NPA) released on March 24 two soldiers it captured over a month ago in Lupon, Davao Oriental. Rene Doller, 34, and Carl Marc Nucos, 24, are both from the 72nd Infantry Battalion. They were captured by the NPA on February 14. The...
Give free rein to ‘passion for peace’
Give free rein to ‘passion for peace’
The momentarily disrupted work on the GRP-NDFP peace talks has continued. In eight days the 4th round of formal negotiations will take place in Norway (April 2-6). This time the talks will not be in Oslo but in a town called Noordwijk. The change in the venue seems...
An illusion and a fraud
An illusion and a fraud
The argument that such values as human rights and the right to life are alien to Asian culture and impositions from the West, is not new. But not since the Martial Law period (1972-1986) and only recently has any Filipino functionary or politician demanded that...
Lumads sustain fight to save their schools
Lumads sustain fight to save their schools
The deployment of more than 60 percent of the total number of AFP troops in (Mindanao) has resulted in massive militarization in rural communities, particularly the indigenous people’s ancestral domain… The pervasiveness of the AFP and its paramilitary groups in...
Exercises in futility
Exercises in futility
At about the same time that the peace panels of the Philippine government (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) were concluding back channel talks in Utrecht, the Netherlands, during which they agreed to return to the negotiating table,...
GRP-NDFP peace talks to resume in April
GRP-NDFP peace talks to resume in April
It seems the public clamor for the resumption of talks has been heard.
Continue peace talks rather than wage war
Continue peace talks rather than wage war
How shall we read this latest situation? What can we expect to happen next? Having dispatched his peace adviser Jesus Dureza and a team of government negotiators to Europe and allowed the travel of NDFP negotiating panel member Benito Tiamzon and two consultants to...
Murder, he said
Murder, he said
About extrajudicial killings (EJKs) in Davao city there have been rumors for over a decade. The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) looked into them in 2003 and found that the killing of dozens of people, most of them male, and under both...
Positive signals toward peace talks continuation
Positive signals toward peace talks continuation
Two media announcements from Malacanang this week, reaffirming President Duterte’s commitments on two crucial issues at the start of his term in July, have evoked positive responses from the peasant and worker sectors. These sectors constitute the majority of the...
Things fall apart
Things fall apart
The 31st anniversary of EDSA 1986 was marked -- the government didn’t exactly celebrate it -- with both chaos and indifference. The disorder was evident in the differences in the various groups’ and even the government’s separate and conflicting activities to...
Different perspectives on the 1986 Edsa uprising
Different perspectives on the 1986 Edsa uprising
How do you regard today’s observance of the peaceful people’s uprising that led to the ouster of the Marcos martial law dictatorship in February 1986? Three separate activities mark this year’s observance: each one representing a different perspective of those...
EDSA 1986: The revolution that wasn’t
EDSA 1986: The revolution that wasn’t
“Low key” is how this year’s commemoration of the February 1986 civilian-military uprising known as EDSA 1 is being described by the Duterte regime. There will be none of the “Salubungan” (the meeting of the key leaders of the mutiny and defecting police and...
Mary Jane to testify on April 27, nearly 2 years since reprieve
Mary Jane to testify on April 27, nearly 2 years since reprieve
“Finally, after protracted and tedious legal wrangling over quite novel circumstances, Mary Jane will be able to freely tell her whole story and cruel ordeal which will be officially considered by the Philippine trial court.
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