By Raymund B. Villanueva Kodao Productions MANILA – Ferdinand Marcos Jr. dodged the impeachment bullet as a congressional committee overwhelmingly voted to declare the two complaints against him as “insufficient in substance.” Voting 42 in favor of the motion of insufficiency with a lone...
A respondent to government’s string of terrorism financing charges vowed courage after a regional trial court (RTC) convicted two fellow rights defenders and activists of the same charge last week. After Branch 45 of the Tacloban RTC judged lay worker Marielle...
Filipino groups condemned United States’ military attacks on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the abduction of its head of state last Saturday “on fabricated drug war and terrorism pretexts.” Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) called for Filipino solidarity...
The Makabayan Coalition identifies different kinds of pork in the enrolled 2026 General Appropriations Bill The Makabayan coalition of progressive parties rejected House Bill No. 4058, or the proposed 2026 General Appropriations Bill, during its ratification at the...
A human rights organization asked Congress to increase the medical allowance for persons deprived of liberty (PDL) to go along with the proposed increase in their daily food budget. As the House of Representatives tackles the Department of Justice (DOJ) budget today,...
Groups bewailed more “squid tactics” displayed by Sara Duterte at the budget deliberations on the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) 2026 budget. Kabataan Party Rep. Renee Co slammed Duterte’s “troll behavior” over corruption issues as the vice president asked if...
Tributes are pouring in for the late National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Negotiating Panel senior adviser Luis G. Jalandoni, praising his more than six decades of service to the poor. Jalandoni died of illness in Utrecht, The Netherlands where he had...
Former National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Negotiating Panel chairperson Luis Gamboa Jalandoni died on Saturday in Utrecht, The Netherlands, the Communist Party of the Philippines and the NDFP jointly announced. He was 90. “It is with deep sorrow that...
Former Bayan Muna Congressman Ferdinand Gaite lambasted the Department of Energy (DOE) for acting as a “mere spokesperson of big oil companies,” as another round of oil price increases was implemented last Tuesday. Gaite criticized the DOE’s “passive stance” in...
[UPDATED] Progressive groups urged Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to swiftly grant clemency to Mary Jane Veloso after the president announced the human trafficking victim is coming home after nearly a decade and a half in an Indonesian death row. In a statement Wednesday,...
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) urged the United Nations (UN) to conduct “thorough, balanced investigations” in the Philippines to be able to hold accountable those truly responsible for violations of children’s rights in the country. In a...
The Duterte dynasty may have misused confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) over the years as reward money in the extrajudicial killing of drug personalities as well as their critics, House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro...
A former lawmaker condemned the slow and bureaucratic response of the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government to pleas by distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) caught in Israel’s escalating military actions in Lebanon. As the Zionist army of Israel has started its...