Protesters demand democratic reforms at Bangkok's Democracy Monument on August 16, 2020.
By Supatsak Pobsuk “Down with dictatorship, long live democracy.” – Protest chant On August 16,...
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President Donald J. Trump makes a stop at a pizza shop in Old Forge, PA, on August 20, 2020. Photo: White House
By Richard Falk To ask whether the United States, the world’s dominant military power, is ‘a...
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Photo: Facebook / Rody Duterte
By Walden Bello People expected a message of hope from his State of the Nation Address, but the...
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by Walden Bello originally posted on Rappler ‘Even Duterte’s usually aggressive DDS true...
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Thousands of individuals from various groups join #SONAgkaisa while ensuring physical distancing to express dismay over the Duterte administration at University Avenue, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City on 5th State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte. Photo by: Arrem Alcaraz, Kodao — with Wacphilippines Cavite.
Focus on the Global South’s Post-SONA 2020 Assessment 2020 August 7 In the middle of the COVID-19...
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Armoured Dove of Peace. Graffiti art by Banksy; photo by Pawel Ryszawa. Retrieved from English Wikipedia (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banksy_-_Peace_Dove_-_2008-03_-_close-up.jpg), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
By Galileo de Guzman Castillo Halina’t ating pag-usapan ang kapayapaan (Come,...
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Women's rights advocates from different organizations converge on Rizal Park to demand respect for women's rights and the recognition and resolution of their issues. International Women's Day. 2019 March 8. Manila, Philippines. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
Bianca Martinez Even before Duterte became President, women were already burdened with multiple...
Read MoreRaphael Baladad “Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap” (If there is no corruption, there is no poverty) was the rallying call behind Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s Presidential campaign in 2010, with the promise of...
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Where will the 2019 elections take us? A side street near a slum area in Quezon City is lined with election posters. April 2019. Photo by Joseph Purugganan
Joseph Purugganan From his pulpit at the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in...
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Tapat na solusyon, hindi tapal na solusyon sa problema sa tubig at tagtuyot!” (Real solutions, not band-aid solutions in addressing the water supply crisis and El Niño!) World Water Day Mobilization. 2019 March 22. Quezon City, Philippines. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
Galileo de Guzman Castillo When the Philippine government decided in 1997 to privatize its...
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A year after the Lumad (indigenous people’s) killings in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, and still no justice in sight, Task Force TAMASCO asks the Department of Environment and Natural Resources where its interests lie and whose agenda it serves. Quezon City, Philippines. 2018 December 3. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
“Mother Nature—militarized, fenced-in, poisoned—demands that we take action.” —Berta...
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Onions sold alongside a highway in the Municipality of Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija, priced at P100.00 (USD 1.92) for a 10-kilo sack. Onion farmers in the Philippines struggle with plummeting market prices due to import liberalization. Photo by Raphael Baladad
Government responses to the recent crises on food have revealed one thing: uplifting the hands...
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