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The pre-colonial Ivatan society, defined by its fortified idjangs (mountain fortresses) and autonomous participation in the Maritime Jade Road, was a sovereign entity. To subsume their heritage under a Chinese claim based on ancient trade networks or proximity is an epistemic assault.
Kapag binabasa natin ang talinhaga ng manghahasik, madalas na nakatuon ang ating pansin sa iba’t ibang uri ng lupa. Ngunit kung babalik tayo sa mismong tagpo ng Ebanghelyo, may isang taong hindi natin gaanong napapansin—ang manghahasik. Siya ang unang lumabas. Siya ang unang nagpagod. Siya ang unang umasa.
Stories from West Papua, Myanmar, the Philippines—and across Asia-Pacific—reveal more than opposition.
In this fast-paced society where many of us easily experience burnout, exhaustion, weariness and fatigue, we deeply long for rest.
No amount of rosy figures churned out by the government and credit-rating institutions could erase the reality of the crisis faced by millions of Filipinos.
So-called defense industrial cooperation with U.S. imperialism will only bind the country more tightly to the U.S. war industry's supply chain and U.S. strategic priorities, but it does not guarantee technology transfer, long-term modernization, or self-reliance.
Under the Marcos Jr. regime, U.S. military involvement in the Philippines has expanded dramatically.
U.S. imperialism in the Philippines today represents not merely a continuation of traditional neocolonial domination but a substantial deepening of imperialist control shaped by the intensifying U.S-China competition
The ground beneath us is never as stable as we believe. For Venezuela, the tremors of U.S. imperialism and the tremors of the earth have become one and the same.
Every generation faces a defining question. Not whether people believe in God, but which god they actually serve.
The 20th year of the disappearance of Karen and Sherlyn is not just about them or about their families. It is an indictment of our democracy. It is proof that butchers and human rights violators are being rewarded and that impunity persists.
From the Himalayas to the Pacific Islands, we are fighting the same beast. We see the convergence of everything—the climate crisis, the mining companies, the war machines, the geopolitics.
Death is used as a warning but memory becomes a form of defiance.
The constitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Act can still be questioned with regard to how it is actually implemented. In contrast, however, Judge Belmes refused to rule on the matter at all, despite the clear ruling of the Supreme Court in Calleja allowing the same.
Who needs high walls and electric fences if access is already restricted by car-centric pathways, expensive rents, and community spaces divorced from the basic and everyday interests of ordinary Filipinos?
Too often, Taiwan appears in international discourse only as an object of competition between states. I
It is absolutely necessary to oppose Washington’s militarization of the region and reject efforts to transform the Philippines into a platform for imperial confrontation. But neither do we outsource our anti-imperialist struggle — which is inseparable from the struggle for national liberation toward socialism — to Beijing.
The state must fulfill its legal requirement to repatriate citizens because this statutory right to mandatory repatriation exists as an enforceable obligation.
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