Unite and Rage Against Political Repression!
We should raise a deafening howl, as a people, as a nation with a collective strength no dictator in the past or present can thwart, not just to condemn the…
Extrajudicial Killings and Sham Investigation
The presidential order forming the commission is widely seen more as a political gimmick rather than as a major step toward stopping the extrajudicial killings. It was meant to mollify public outrage over the killings and clear the constitutionally impaired presidency of possible accountability.
By the Policy Studies, Publication and Advocacy Program
Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
MANILA — Unless the Melo Commission gets to the bottom of the extrajudicial killings, it will suffer the same fate as previous presidential probe bodies. The task that challenges the commission is to make itself credible by holding an impartial and independent investigation of the political killings even if this would mean summoning the president for ?command responsibility? as the armed forces? commander-in-chief.
The Real SONA: Women Living Dangerously Under GMA
MANILA -- Living dangerously is the real state of the nation under the Arroyo regime. And it is a total shame that the utmost disregard of women and children?s rights…
Caught Again With Its Pants Down
Lack of assistance and evacuation plans for Filipinos in Lebanon shows government neglect, irresponsibility and indifference to plight of OFWs By Ramon Bultron Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants MANILA --…
A Regime’s Folly
By Ren Jalaluddin Ropeta MANILA -- The brazen declaration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of a heightened war against the Communist insurgency is essentially a war against the Filipino people who…