The government is not keen on raising palay output judging by its decision to retain the 15% tariff on imported rice. Rather, it sees the tariff as a revenue-generating scheme applauded by favored rice importers, who will increase import volumes, to hell with the bankrupted rice farmers. Instead of reducing rice imports, the Marcos Jr. regime is even negotiating for multi-year imports from Pakistan, which has a large bread-eating population.
“While fully recognizing the right of individuals and groups to assemble and express their political views, holding such an event in a sacred place — within a Catholic Church—seems deeply disturbing to us, given the heavy liability of Duterte on human rights violations and public contempt for the Church,” ICHRP-Quebec stressed.
A significant element in the message delivered by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP-CC) on the 56th anniversary of the New People’s Army (NPA) on Mar. 29, 2025 is a call for guerrillas to intensify political work within the military ranks and recruit “progressive and patriotic officers and men into the Crispin Tagamolila Movement (CTM).”
Now celebrating his 80th year, Duterte by his lonesome in a The Hague jail will have all the time in the world to reflect on how he wasted 80 long years by not doing good, by insisting that murder is the solution to drug addiction but sparing the real drug kingpins from the bullets of his highly-rewarded hitmen.
No one argued with Titong, who was, during the martial law dispensation, more equal than others in the legal profession, and whose service to Marcos spanned more than 30 years, starting during the time when Marcos Sr. was preparing to unseat Diosdado Macapagal Sr. with a little help from his friend Enrile.
The harsh reality is that land “promised” to farmers under CARP is being steadily converted into industrial estates and commercial zones to benefit the same oligarchs who have long controlled the country’s land and wealth, KMP explained.
Nothing similar to Antonio Gramsci’s “Prison Notebooks” for Duterte, or the work of Jean Genet written in shit inside his cell, but perhaps a reworking of “Mein Kampf” of Adolf Hitler. Give Duterte a quill, along with fentanyl to inspire him to write while being hounded by the ghosts of Kian de los Santos, Carl Arnaiz, Reynaldo de Guzman, the four Alia brothers of Davao City and the many victims of MC 32 and EO 70.
“This is my personal code. More than being Alan Cayetano, or a senator, a former secretary of foreign affairs, a former speaker or congressman, I believe I am an ambassador of the Lord Jesus Christ,” Cayetano declared. Of course, the good senator did not present his “Lettre de creance” or letter of credence to formalize his ambassadorship, and the Holy Spirit was not around to confirm Cayetano’s divine task.
The Duterte sting ran for six years. Now is the time for him to show that his mojo works at the International Criminal Court.
By appearing to be lecturing on government that when it ignored INC’s plea for “unity” even without resolving outstanding issues like the impeachment, it proposes to have the moral authority and the political acuity to preach that “you didn’t follow us, so reap the whirlwind.” What whirlwind Zabala and his cohorts are saying escape people who think logically.
