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Continue reading →: Duterte backers, other oil firms rake in millions from overpricing amid pandemic
Amid the misery and deaths caused by COVID-19, oil companies, including those controlled by prominent Duterte backers, have been raking in millions of pesos in extra profits from overpricing. This is beyond unconscionable and appalling as the socioeconomic fallout of the pandemic – i.e., record joblessness, hunger and poverty –…
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Continue reading →: #DutertePalpak: PH worst in Southeast Asia in COVID-19 response amid surge in new cases
For two straight days, the Philippines posted record highs in daily new COVID-19 cases. The DOH reported Mar 20 that the country registered 7,999 cases, breaking the previous all-time high of 7,103 monitored just a day before. The surge in new COVID-19 cases in the Philippines is the second worst…
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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,…
I’m Arnold Padilla, a Filipino activist, writer, and researcher.
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