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September 22, 2025 There is no polite way to say this: the Philippine government is bleeding its people dry. What we are witnessing is not accidental mismanagement, nor mere incompetence.…
Today marks another year since the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. signed Proclamation 1081, declaring Martial Law in the Philippines on September 21, 1972. More than half a century has…
The floods that struck Valencia City, Bukidnon two nights ago—leaving at least four people dead, seven missing, and hundreds of families displaced—were not a freak act of nature. They were…
General Santos City — For most of her childhood, Shina Aquino was told she would never amount to anything. She grew up poor, and worse, she carried the weight of…
Climate Conflict Action | 10 September 2025 While the nation’s attention is consumed by congressional hearings into corruption in Manila, a storm is brewing in Mindanao that threatens to unravel…
When Dheben Jean T. Alvarez was still in college, her parents faced a heartbreaking decision. To keep her in school, they pawned the family’s 0.7-hectare farmland in Barangay Violanta, Loreto,…
The promise of faster internet, stable energy supply, and stronger business competitiveness is on the horizon for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), as the European Union-backed BaSulTa…
My heart bleeds for Mindanao—not just because of the floods that drown our crops, wash away our homes, and claim innocent lives year after year, but because of the even…
Twelve years ago today, Zamboanga City awoke to a nightmare. On September 9, 2013, heavily armed members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) stormed coastal communities in an attempt…
Two separate events that unfolded on September 6, 2025, speak volumes about the state of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) today. On the one hand, Chairman Al Haj Murad…