By DEE AYROSO
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Category: Commentary
Feeling faultless, looking witless
By DEE AYROSO
UN human rights body presses Phl gov’t on EJKs
In the past three years, close to 40 nations have been signing a resolution, initiated by Iceland, expressing concern over the rising number of killings related to President Duterte’s “war on drugs.” Initially they urged the Philippine government to stop the killings and undertake an impartial investigation on these cases. Subsequently they called on the…
Winging it
The officials of the Duterte regime contradict themselves and each other daily and almost by the hour. They have, individually and collectively, outdone and are outdoing every other administration in the incoherence, contradictions, unreason, and non sequiturs of their declarations. A reality that is arguably as alarming as the lawlessness and the extrajudicial killings that…
Si Don Belong, ang bulok na tren, ang gyera sa Mindanao at ang pambansang industriyalisasyon
Halos lahat ng mga bayang naging maunlad at nakaranas ng malawakang industriyalisasyon ang napaunlad sa tulong ng makabuluhang paggamit ng mga makinarya sa produksyon, para sa transportasyon ng mga tao, produkto at gamit sa agrikultura at industriya, at para sa pagkonsumo ng mga tao sa mga bagong likhang produkto. Simula nang gamitin ang mga uling…
Demonizing the defense of human rights
It should be pointed out that these organizations are being targeted for the invaluable work they do – the defense of human rights of the poor and marginalized.
Beyond the numbers game
No one should be under the illusion that any impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo R. Duterte will by itself remove him from office. But it might help. Someone or some organization may be willing to face the firestorm of hate that the regime’s online trolls and mercenaries in print and broadcast will certainly unleash when…
Climate crisis: Peoples act while governments falter
In the Philippines, used as we are to tropical heat such as the long dry spell of recent weeks, global warming doesn’t seem to be the huge problem that it is in other countries where wild fires and extreme temperatures kill hundreds of vulnerable people. But even as we count ourselves lucky in this regard,…
Hi-rise vs. Have-nots
By DEE AYROSO
Blangko
Kung ang mensahe ni Heydarian ay hindi makita ang “independent” foreign policy dahil sa nangyari sa Reed Bank, iyon ang dapat na titulo ng artikulo.
Imeldobo
By DEE AYROSO