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The Duterte regime is on track to make the Philippines a debt colony of China through overpriced infrastructure projects and sell out to China the sovereign ownership of the oil and natural resources under the West Philippine Sea through a scheme in which China, like Shell in Malampaya, overvalues the costs of exploration and development and recovers first said costs before the Philippines can get anything from the 60-40 per cent sharing of net profit from production.

He pretends to use Tokhang methods against his own ninja cops involved in the drug trade. In fact, he is merely reminding the police officers that even they can suffer Tokhang if they do not follow his illegal orders to kill citizens without bothering to secure judicial warrants of arrest.

“Why do you need to pay people to kill people?” Fe Barino, Commission on the Laity in the Archdiocese of Cebu, said in a gathering to condemn the spate of drug killings in Cebu City. Around 700 parish leaders, church volunteers and lay faithful participated in the event.

Duterte is threatening to accept no more ¨surrenders¨ from the New People´s Army and is inciting his military officers and troops to kill upon sight NPA suspects and all those he considers as enemies of the state.

The physical and mental health condition of Duterte as president is a matter of public interest and public concern. With or without my prodding, he should present to the public his medical record in response to public demand.

Angelica is a British university graduate of Colombian parentage who is already a longtime development worker in Africa and is currently logistician of Doctors Without Borders.

It has come to pass that Duterte was obliged to appear publicly on video on Monday night and to show that he still had an unusually darkened face and he looked tired and dispirited.

Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria “Joma” Sison on Wednesday refused to say sorry for saying President Rodrigo Duterte was in a comatose state.

Author´s Note: As founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, I have been asked by academic, journalist and activist friends and many other people to evaluate the CPP in the last 50 years and describe its current situation and prospects. All of them are anticipating the fast approaching golden anniversary of the CPP. I write this article on the basis of my previous experience and on the basis of publicly available documents.

Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria “Joma” Sison described President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday as a “cowardly gangster —a crazy guy in power.”