Topic: Philippines

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.”

The budgetary deficit under the tyrannical US-Duterte regime has widened in a big way and will further widen. The regime reduces the allocations for health and other social services but knows no limits for allocating funds for the office of the president, the pork barrel of the legislators, the military and the police. Bureaucratic corruption is rampant.

The Philippine balance of payments has deteriorated and will further deteriorate. The maturing debt will grow at an accelerated rate and the inflow of portfolio investments (hot money from the hedge funds) will continue to decelerate because of rising US interest rate.

Here is Communist Party of the Philippines founder Joma Sison’s response to the President’s live Facebook video meant to debunk reports that he is sick.

“Duterte is a brutal guy who likes to intimidate people and impress people that he is a strongman. He’s very capable of violence,” the Netherlands-based Sison said in a Skype interview with ABS-CBN News’ Christian Esguerra

According to Filipino doctors, his frequent and prolonged use of such pain killers can damage the kidney and necessitate dialysis which Duterte is known to undergo. Fentanyl can damage not only the kidney but also the brain. Thus, the rambling statements and rants are delusional and often involve self-contradictions, outright lies and extreme exaggerations.

Dead or alive, Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria “Joma” Sison on Tuesday vowed to return to the Philippines.

Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison says President Duterte has a malicious purpose in terminating the peace talks.

Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison says he has no death wish for President Duterte.

Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria Sison on Tuesday said he was pleased to know that President Rodrigo Duterte is alive so he can still be held accountable for his crimes and be tried by the international court.