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There is a debate over the Bureau of Immigration’s (BI) proposed Civil Aviation and Immigration Security Services (CAISS) project which highlights a classic economic dilemma: who should foot the bill for public security? As BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado recently clarified during Senate budget deliberations, the ₱10.74-billion project is still under review. If approved, the…
In advocacy work, you kind of have to push open whatever doors you can find. I just sent over our position paper to Senator Chiz Escudero and Senator Bong Go—not because they chair the main health or drug committees, but because I’m fortunate to have friends on their staff who can make sure this lands…
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When Vice President Sara Duterte follows her father’s playbook by exploiting the word adik to score political low blows against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., she isn’t just engaging in political theater. She is weaponizing a slur that inflicts profound psychological harm on millions of Filipinos living with undiagnosed and untreated neurodivergent conditions. The intense shame…
Few people talk about how the stigmatization of addiction and the bloody Duterte drug war exacerbated the suffering of ten million Filipinos. It would be great if the arrest and detention of former President Rodrigo Duterte magically ended their daily struggles. But their misery continues. Duterte characterized drug users as violent beasts who ought to…
(Note: I am an undiagnosed ADHDer dealing with the challenges of being unmedicated. This is for everyone living with ADHD and other ND. God bless us all! Also, I had to write this with Gemini, it is based on a very long conversation that I asked it to organize into an article. Why? Because I…
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According to Retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, Philippine courts have no say in anything ruled by the “International Criminal Court” (ICC). Carpio is essentially saying that Philippine law enforcement officers and agents can act entirely under the authority of the ICC completely bypassing the Philippines’ judiciary. ‘Yung local courts hindi na kailangan because this…
The Philippines is already navigating choppy economic waters. Fuel prices are spiking on the back of rising tensions from the US-Iran conflict, and the threat of a broader economic slowdown is no longer hypothetical. The last thing the country needs right now is to hand the Financial Action Task Force a reason to put it…
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Long story short, the quick fix Inquirer columnist Randy David describes in his recent piece “Beyond the outrage” was tried before and it didn’t work. Calls for the president’s resignation or ouster and the installation of a national transition council or a civil-military junta aren’t options. That is, except for the leftist-militant groups which are…