By Mark Z. Saludes / Contributor Many governments in Asia have used the COVID-19 pandemic to control the flow of information and suppress press freedom, according to a report released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The 2021 World Press Freedom Index revealed that the region’s authoritarian...
We in the alternative media community stand in solidarity with journalist Maria Ressa and news outfit Rappler as the Manila Regional Trial Court hands down on June 15 its decision on the cyberlibel case filed against them over a 2012 story involving businessman...
STATEMENT WHILE THE DUTERTE REGIME is failing to flatten the curve of the coronavirus' spread, it is accelerating the curve of another mounting pandemic afflicting the nation – the pandemic of impunity. State forces are relentlessly pursuing attacks against the...