By DEE AYROSO
‘Good friend’ is puppetspeak for ‘master’
Tags: China
#DuterteTraydor trends on Twitter amid continuing tension in West PH Sea
Former Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio said that Filipinos deserve and should demand a president who puts Filipinos first and foremost and who’s willing to defend the Philippine sovereignty.
US troops presence to intensify tension in the West Philippine Sea – groups
“It would be best for the Philippine government to assert its sovereignty on the West Philippine Sea without playing one superpower against the other. If this competition for dominance escalate, we will surely be crushed in the middle of it all.”
CPP calls for unity against Chinese military aggressors
“[The CPP] calls on all forces, from the mass-based democratic forces to the conservative political oppositions as well as elements within the ruling regime and in the military and police forces, to exert all effort to assert the country’s sovereign rights and drive away the Chinese imperialist aggressors,” it said.
Ground zero
The multibillion peso dam is part of the New Centennial Water Source-Kaliwa Dam Project (NCWSP) by the Philippine Government in 2012. The 600-meter dam is said to solve the water supply shortage in the country’s capital Metro Manila. Planned to harness water from the Kaliwa River and its tributaries, the dam will be constructed in…
#OustDuterte | Netizens criticize gov’t ‘incompetence’ in addressing ncoronavirus
“The barrage of online sentiments shows how government inaction over consecutive crises leads to mass unrest and protest.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Many Filipino netizens expressed their outrage against the government’s handling of a major public health problem after the Department of Health has just confirmed that a patient was tested…
The Devil we know
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. unwittingly said something at odds with what his boss, President Rodrigo Duterte, has been saying since he came to power in 2016. The Philippines, “Teddy Boy” declared during a reception last July 4, the 243rd anniversary of American independence from Britain, cannot live without the United States of America…
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…
#PeopleSONA | Gov’t data show ‘downward trajectory’ in PH economy – think tank
“Duterte’s economic policies is creating a ‘debt bomb’ that will explode in the near future.“
Concern for human lives
By DEE AYROSO
Betrayed
How could he muster the courage to continue speaking the truth against the mighty China when the betrayal came from the country’s highest seat of power?