“There are many ways those ‘hostaged’ passport data may be used to the disadvantage of the owners of the data.”
No safeguards to ID theft due to passport fiasco – IT expert
Year: 2019
Need to rethink EO 70, ‘National Peace Framework’
The bungled witch hunt by intelligence units of the Philippine National Police (PNP) against the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) only reflects – in their implementation – the brutish style with which the government’s counterinsurgency policies and directives are issued by the highest level of command. ACT is the sole accredited teachers’ union in the…
Court dismisses charges vs. NDFP peace consultant
“Baylosis’s defense poked holes into their story, pointed out not only lapses but grievous procedural mistakes, and thus exposed concerted, malicious efforts to fabricate the charges.”
Duterte’s tirades vs. Church meant to quell growing resistance against him, says revolutionary priest
The attacks against the Catholic Church are not said “out of concern or just personal rancor” but to stop the “people from uniting and putting an end to his wicked and bloodthirsty puppet regime” as church workers are working on uniting the Filipinos to “wield their collective power to gain collective good.”
‘Groundhog Day’ in Congress
Love also holds the key to survive a ‘Groundhog Day’ in Congress. Love in the form of knowledge that what matters most is the movement of people working for social transformation outside the halls of Congress.
A Karen woman living in Salween Peace Park
By CLEMENTE BAUTISTA
State workers protest delayed salary increase, blame squabbles in Duterte admin for delay in hike
State workers blame the delay in budget approval on government officials “asserting their selfish interest and also on wrong budget policies.”
Alliance calls on Filipino people to act amid ‘bleak situation under Duterte’
“The mass killings are meant for mass intimidation! Not just in the drug war, but in the war against authoritarianism, in the war against poverty, and in the war against political dynasties and perpetuation of this system of injustice.”
Hopeless but hopeful
In a December 1(SWS) survey on whether they would welcome the coming year with hope or with fear, 96% of the respondents said they would welcome it with hope. If the survey methodology was as sound as many have come to expect of SWS, almost the entire adult population of the Philippines expects things to…
In 2019, charter change may ‘unite’ the few and the powerful
When the few and the powerful are celebrating over what is portrayed as a feat to uplift the lives of the Filipino people, ordinary mortals must be on their toes. Just before 2018 ended, President Rodrigo Duterte’s supermajority in the House of Representatives, headed by former President now House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, practically railroaded and…
NDFP waiting for GRP offer to reopen talks, Joma says
By RAYMUND VILLANUEVA Kodao Productions The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) would be willing to explore whatever offer the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) would be making to reopen the stalled peace talks, Jose Maria Sison said. In a statement, Sison said he sees a silver lining in GRP President…