Between Moral Governance and Due Process: The Dangerous Fracture Emerging Within the MILF
What is happening today inside the Bangsamoro government is no longer an ordinary cabinet controversy. It is no longer merely…
Tampakan at the Crossroads: Development Cannot Come at the Cost of Watersheds, Indigenous Communities, and Future Generations
The recent decision of the Regional Trial Court in Koronadal City affirming the extension of the Financial or Technical Assistance…
One Percent of Hope: Ola Fernandez and the Mothers of Dahican Who Protect Life Between the Waves
MATI CITY — On a Mother’s Day by the Sea, Ola Fernandez Carries Both Life and Loss, and Still Chooses…
Siargao Is Not for Sale: When Hospitality Becomes Surrender
A Paradise Under StrainIn Siargao, the image of a tropical haven is increasingly colliding with a harsher reality. What was…
A Fuel Depot or a Bullseye? Why Davao Must Resist Becoming a Strategic Target
The Dangerous Illusion of DeterrenceThere is a dangerous illusion being sold to the Filipino people—especially to communities in Davao—that a…
A Child Killed for Mangoes: When Property Matters More Than Life
A seven-year-old boy is dead—not from illness or accident, but from a brutal beating with a piece of wood because…
Fuel, Fish, and Failure: How a Distant War Is Sinking the Philippines’ Tuna Capital
There is a cruel irony unfolding in General Santos City—the so-called Tuna Capital of the Philippines. In a place where…