By DEE AYROSO
Tags: President Duterte
2017: Confronting the anti-environment, pro-globalization leanings of the Duterte administration
The Duterte administration has continued to subscribe to the same old, pro-foreign, pro-oligarch, anti-people and anti-environment globalization polices of the previous administrations.
Turning out badly: On Duterte and political prisoners
Does the president really want to look like a hijacker? What gives?
Duterte’s Death Squads, and Ours
Whatever his connections with the Davao Death Squads, Duterte is an amateur compared with the United States. The US has been in the death squad business for decades.
Why peace talks still hang in the balance
And so it has come to this. After stoking such high expectations about the resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and what the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) considers the top “security threat” in the country today — the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National…
Where is justice in the escalating killings?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective To justify the restoration of the death penalty, President Duterte was quoted as saying that his intention for pushing for it is not for crime prevention but for retribution. The death penalty has not yet been restored but the dead bodies of suspected drug addicts and pushers have already been…