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E-CLIP Briefer: it’s all about money, money

The Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP) took off from the Comprehensive Local and Integration Program (CLIP) of the Department of Interior and Local Governments (DILG) and the PAMANA (Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan-Peaceful and Resilient communities) program of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP). The two programs were centralized under […]

Duterte’s “surrender” program is a scam

by Iliya Makalipay Alde “Butsoy” Salusad is a leader of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)-backed paramilitary group New Indigenous .. »

Unholy Trinity

What is the common thread binding former President Ferdinand E. Marcos, former President and now House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and current .. »

DUTERTENOMICS: The Problem is Fundamental

by Vida Gracias and Pat Gambao The dream was high on words. On April 18, 2017 President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic team .. »

JOVITO S. PALPARAN Jr., “THE BUTCHER”: Contemptuous of Right to Life and Justice

by Angel Balen He is gaunt and awkward in physical bearing, lisping in speech, unimpressive for a military officer. Yet, on .. »

THE SAGAY MASSACRE IN THE CONTEXT OF AGRARIAN REFORM

by Tagumpay Felipe (Editor’s Note: In one of his recent rambling speeches, President Duterte vowed to carry out agrarian reform, minus .. »

“BBB”: BUILDING THE ROAD TO PERDITION

by Tagumpay Felipe The Duterte regime’s much-touted “Build, Build, Build” (BBB) program is purported to be a “game changer” for the .. »

THE TYRANT DENIES THE PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO JUST AND LASTING PEACE

  by Leon Castro Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) President Rodrigo Duterte announced last August 14 that he .. »

OF COMMUNISTS AND PLOTS: Does the military know what it’s talking about?

by Vida Gracias “Communists do not conceal their aims,” the Communist Manifesto has put it. Yet the Communists have always been .. »

Rehabilitating the Enemies of the People

by Vida Gracias Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s power grab on the Speakership of the House of Representatives that stalled Duterte’s delivery of his .. »

Marawi, A Year After: People’s Right to Self-Determination Violated

by Iliya Makalipay It was heartbreaking and enraging to witness how the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National .. »