FORENSIC pathologist Dr. Raquel Fortun has raised a series of disturbing concerns over the military’s handling of both the remains and the alleged crime scene where 19 individuals were killed in Toboso, Negros Occidental, on April 19. In a press conference at the University of the...
Something strange happened after the United States and Israel launched their unprovoked war on Iran: they began losing the propaganda war. As soon as the first bombs fell on Tehran and other parts of the country and in Lebanon, the duo that has long styled...
I’m glad that even a majority, I think, of liberal commentaries have correctly taken a stand against the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the US military actions against his country. This is so unlike the Iraq War, when the majority of the liberal...
It was one of those rare moments of clarity, or one when one's view of the world suddenly comes into complete focus. In my mind, I, of course, knew that this happens all the time, in one shape or another, in places both seen and unseen. I only even saw the...
Isa sa tampok na kontradiksiyon sa pelikulang Quezon, dinirehe ni Jerrold Tarog, ang labanan nila ng unang pangulo at heneral ng rebolusyong Pilipino na si Emilio Aguinaldo sa eleksiyong 1935. Nasa ilalim pa ang bansa ng kolonyalismong Amerikano, pero may...
A month has passed since September 21, when Eric Saber — a construction worker who happened to be at Recto Avenue — was caught in the middle of a violent police dispersal of young protesters, the so-called “young stunnas” in Gen Z and street parlance. He was merely...
On September 21, the anniversary of Martial Law, a brief program at Mendiola was supposed to end quietly. Instead, it unraveled into hours of violent expression of anger and frustration of hundreds of unorganized but politicized youths demanding an end to government...
(CONTENT WARNING: This report contains images and footage of violence, police brutality, and blood) In many ways, the day began in historic fashion. In Luneta, by 10 in the morning, emcees announced that the crowd was approaching 80,000, gathered mostly along...
The scandal over anomalous flood control projects has reached the University of the Philippines Diliman. Across the campus, buildings long promised to students, faculty, and staff have inched upward only to stall, some left crumbling midway. Some of those declared...
Nagkaisa ang mga kinatawan ng iba’t ibang sektor sa pangunahing governing body ng Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (UP) laban sa panukalang charter change (Cha-cha) na itinutulak ng administrasyong Marcos Jr. Sa pahayag ng tanggapan nina Student Regent Sofia Jan Trinidad,...
Dulang mas magandang panoorin sa malayo. ‘Yan ang sinabi namin sa aming sarili bago magsimula ang palabas. Nasa bandang likod na kasi ang mga upuan namin. Pero hindi ito nakabawas sa pagkaaliw sa panonood. Salamat sa lottery, at natunghayan din ang...
“A woman’s place is in the struggle.”