True to his cultural agenda, the Duterte regime doesn't and won't go all the way like Marcos did—except for the edifices—so he could still maintain an illusion of democracy. How could this government be accused of curtailing press freedom when it shut just one network down as it trolls another?
The pandemic shows the worse of what we have, but it also makes us reflect on some issues that can help us turn the tide.
The fight for democratic rights of the Afghan peoples should not be viewed in the lens of the occupying forces and imperialist countries but the Afghan people themselves. It is in the hands of Afghan people to truly fight for their genuine liberation.
It is hard enough, as it is, to detach my mind from the “personal”, emotional part of this development, in this so-called mistaken-identity brouhaha, and yet, like it or not,…
When asked if the Bangsamoro people's lives have changed under President Rodrigo Duterte's administration, I am quick to answer that it has not. What it has done is to push the Bangsamoro people deeper into poverty and anger.