2018

In anticipation of the anniversary of the capture of Jose Maria Sison on November 10, 1977, his 30-stanza poem “Fragments of a Nightmare” (which is about his long series of tortures) is published here

The tyrant Duterte publicly incites the military to kill rebel suspects and the police to kill drug suspects, encouraging them to frame up the victims, assuring the murderers in authority with presidential protection and actually rewarding them with cash rewards and promotions in rank.

Duterte is still pushing hard his scheme of fascist dictatorship through chacha for a bogus federalism

This tactic has been applied in the Sagay massacre of 9 and in an increasing number of serialized and mass murders in Mindanao, Panay, Samar, Cagayan Valley, Cordillera and Central Luzon and elsewhere

The International Organization of Migration defines forced migration as “a migratory movement in which an element of coercion exists, including threats to life and and livelihood, whether arising from natural or man-made causes (e.g. movements of refugees and internally displaced persons as well as people displaced by natural or environmental disasters, chemical or nuclear disasters, famine, or development projects)”

Duterte and his cronies are so greedy and eager to collect privately hundreds of millions of dollars as finder’s fees for brokering the billions of dollars of loans from China for overpriced infrastructure projects

Duterte himself, his family and cronies engaged in the smuggling of illegal drugs, rice and other goods, the corruption and systematic criminalization of the military and police

Until now, the Duterte regime has deprived the Filipino people of full information about the terms of the so-called framework agreement and the joint exploration agreement with China, involving the sovereign rights of the Filipino people in the West Philippine Sea in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the final judgement of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in favor of the Philippines.

Long before you come,
You rattle your sabres
Made in some alien land,
You boast of your ill intent
Against the toiling masses.

he has frustrated and terminated the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations. He has been obsessed with carrying out an all-out war policy and using the armed conflict to justify his tyrannical rule and charter change for a phoney kind of federalism as pretext for a fascist dictatorship ala Marcos