Topic: Philippines

Why the co-chairmanship over something owned exclusively by the Philippines, which ought to hire an exploration and development company that does not belong to a country which refuses to respect the final judgment of the Permanent Arbitration Commission under the UNCLOS?

China has succeeded in at least putting at par its false claim of ownership of almost the entire China Sea, including the Philippine EEZ, with the solid and final judgment of the Permanent Arbitration Court in favor of the Philippines in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

Book about revolutionary icons, Jose Ma. Sison and Julie De Lima, both exiled as political refugees

The Duterte ruling clique benefits from two kinds of relations. First are the official relations to the Chinese government, the banks and corporations. Second are the criminal relations with the Chinese triads and the smuggling and gambling syndicates.

It is Duterte who is clearly culpable for the termination of the peace negotiations in contempt of the people’s desire for these

The CPP said that while public clamor for the resumption of the talks remains strong, peace talks cannot be resumed as long as President Rodrigo Duterte’s 2017 proclamation terminating peace negotiations remains in place.

Increased police presence and patrols on campuses to intimidate the book-carrying teachers and students will further reduce the number of police from their previous haunts, promote criminality off the campuses and give more space to the revolutionary forces in the battlefield.

But the aforesaid repressive tactics of the tyrannical Duterte regime achieve the opposite

He is aggravating them and escalating the exploitation and oppression of the people.

Subsequently the nomination was withdrawn due to the hostility of the Duterte regime