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Continue reading →: A weaponized justice system brings the worst injusticesOn Mar 7, yet another wave of coordinated arrests and alleged extrajudicial killings struck the activist and cause-oriented groups in the country. According to media reports, nine were killed and six were arrested in simultaneous operations carried out by the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Southern Tagalog. The victims are activists from…
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Continue reading →: GDP falls 16.5% as COVID-19 hastens PH economic decay under Duterte
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported today that the second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) declined by a huge 16.5 percent. The contraction – the largest quarterly decline since the country started recording quarterly GDP figures in 1981 – put the Philippines officially into a technical recession after the economy…
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Continue reading →: Junk Duterte’s terror bill
Terorista lang daw ang target ng anti-terrorism bill ni Duterte? The farmers, the lumad – they are the biggest victims of terrorism, by the state. Duterte made the Philippine countryside the deadliest place in the world for farmers, indigenous people and the advocates of their rights. In 2019, for instance,…
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Continue reading →: Duterte: COVID-19 figures not so bad; Data say otherwise
As Metro Manila and other areas prepare to transition from modified ECQ to GCQ, Pres. Duterte said Thursday (May 28) that figures on COVID-19 in the Philippines are “all in all, not so bad”. “The death toll is 921. So you would see that the Philippines has…ratio and proportion vis-a-vis…
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Continue reading →: PH has strictest lockdown in Asia, but ineffective vs. COVID-19
If you feel that the COVID-19 lockdown being imposed by the Duterte regime is very strict, data say you are right. In fact, Duterte’s lockdown is the strictest in the region, even more rigid than that of his fellow authoritarian ruler Narendra Modi of India. Compiling Google’s data on six…
I’m Arnold Padilla, a Filipino activist, writer, and researcher.
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