Fidel Agcaoili said the GRP officials are falsely blaming the wrong person for the impasse, adding it is Duterte who should be blamed for the problems faced by the negotiations.
‘Lorenzana, Año and Roque sounding death knell on talks’ —Agcaoili
Tags: Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana
Tightening Philippine military involvement with the US
On May 7-18, the Duterte government will engage in its third Balikatan joint military exercises with the United States since October 2016. The exercises will have two new features: 1) participation of Japan and Australia, both America’s close cohorts in Asia and, 2) the start of construction, inside a Philippine base, of the first of…
DND, AFP are spoiling the peace talks resumption
In his latest turnabout on the issue, President Duterte apparently seeks to convince the public that he is dead set on continuing the GRP-NDFP peace talks that he unilaterally “terminated” just before the start of the fifth round of formal negotiations in November 2017. Twice this month, he has made such a public affirmation. On…
Warmongers leading Duterte vs people – rights group
“What did the President decide to give these rights abusers? Not punishment, but more power to abuse.”
Repeating history
“Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” There are those who want us to forget the bitter lessons of martial law and the Marcos dictatorship. They say these hard-earned lessons should be discarded as irrelevant to our current situation because the threat of ISIS-inspired extremism is real and only martial law…