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Dead souls in the sugarlands: Counterinsurgency and the moral life of solidarity in Negros
Dead souls in the sugarlands: Counterinsurgency and the moral life of solidarity in Negros
One cannot sit with peasants shaped by generations of landlessness, listen to mothers narrate massacre, watch children learn the ordinary disciplines of fear, and still believe history may be resolved through technical adjustment alone.
Missiles, markets, and massacres: Balikatan, ASEAN, and the war logic of US imperial decline*
Missiles, markets, and massacres: Balikatan, ASEAN, and the war logic of US imperial decline*
As regional leaders convene under the Philippine chairmanship’s theme,“Navigating Our Future, Together,” the summit presents itself as a forum for peace, economic resilience, and regional stability. Yet beneath this diplomatic language lies a deeper contradiction: ASEAN’s increasingly visible accommodation to U.S.-aligned security and monetary frameworks, even as the region claims strategic autonomy.
Balik-Tanaw | Pag-asa sa gitna ng hirap
Balik-Tanaw | Pag-asa sa gitna ng hirap
Sa Ika-anim na Linggo ng Pasko ng Pagkabuhay, muling bumabalik sa atin ang isang simpleng tanong na may mabigat na kahulugan: Paano ba natin minamahal si Kristo?
Balik-Tanaw | The inconvenient life: Radical solidarity in the era of polycrisis
Balik-Tanaw | The inconvenient life: Radical solidarity in the era of polycrisis
?In healing and science, the “greater works” are manifested when the human community collaborates to cure diseases, discover ways to food security, and innovate technologies to heal the planet. Jesus’ healing was local; modern “greater works” can be global.
First Person | Lyle, son of Negros
First Person | Lyle, son of Negros
We both share the same violence from the State.
The continuing anguish of Negros
The continuing anguish of Negros
Any honest student of history will understand that the conflict afflicting Negros did not rise from a vacuum. It stands on a longstanding theater of feudal order, brutal power, and impoverishment.
On the Fringes | Journalists remain unsafe
On the Fringes | Journalists remain unsafe
Long, overlapping questions may have short, decisive answers.
Negros after the gunfire: what the blood on our soil is telling us
Negros after the gunfire: what the blood on our soil is telling us
It is tempting to reduce this to a “security success” or a “counterinsurgency incident.” But such language hides more than it reveals. Armed conflict in Negros did not begin with guns. It began long before, in conditions that have shaped the lives of generations.
Balikatan: Colonial foundations and the rebranding of U.S. military domination
Balikatan: Colonial foundations and the rebranding of U.S. military domination
The Philippines is not merely caught between powers, but incorporated into a hierarchy of production and control in which labor, land, and resources are subordinated to US imperialist interests.
Konteksto | Ekonomiks
Konteksto | Ekonomiks
Sa mga ekonomistang nais magpakadalubhasa, may simpleng pakiusap lang: Huwag sanang kalimutan ang masa.
Merely Iran Proxies? Understanding the Axis of Resistance
Merely Iran Proxies? Understanding the Axis of Resistance
This article reexamines the so-called “Axis of Resistance” in light of recent escalations, ceasefire breakdowns, and renewed regional strikes, arguing that these movements are not Iranian proxies but historically rooted formations shaped by prolonged war and fragmentation, whose emerging multi-front deterrence reveals new forms of armed sovereignty and exposes the limits of US-led imperial power.
Oil shock profiteering? Oil firms, Marcos regime rake in hundreds of millions amid crisis
Oil shock profiteering? Oil firms, Marcos regime rake in hundreds of millions amid crisis
Even without a war and an oil shock, and even in times when oil prices are relatively low or declining, the Filipino people are still being oppressed and exploited by local pump price profiteering, and global monopoly and speculative pricing due to oil deregulation.
Konteksto | Langis
Konteksto | Langis
Mahigit P100 na ang bawat litro ng diesel. Sa mga susunod na araw, asahan ang presyong nasa tatlo na ring mga numero para sa premium na gasolina.
‘Sana oil’| As Filipinos suffer mega oil price hikes, prices barely moved in our ASEAN neighbors
‘Sana oil’| As Filipinos suffer mega oil price hikes, prices barely moved in our ASEAN neighbors
Jeepney drivers and Filipino consumers do not have to be at the mercy of oil companies. The oil industry does not have to be deregulated. Oil prices can be controlled. The government does not have to be useless.
Imperial feminism in a time of war
Imperial feminism in a time of war
Without sovereignty, there is no terrain on which struggles for democracy, workers' rights, or women's liberation can occur.
With deregulation, the Philippines is most vulnerable in Asia to oil shocks
With deregulation, the Philippines is most vulnerable in Asia to oil shocks
Unlike many Asian countries, the Philippines has long dropped, in the name of deregulation, key policy tools, such as state-controlled strategic oil reserves, regulated pricing schemes, and price stabilization mechanisms, which could protect Filipino consumers during global shocks.
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