Tag: ibon foundation

Rappler admits USAID funding but still neither confirms nor denies receiving grants from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 benign0 No Comments

Yellowtard “social news network” Rappler continues to flail over the gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by US President Donald Trump. Gaby Baizas, a “digital forensics researcher” there insists in her piece “The lies, attacks on USAID spreading in the Philippines” that “USAID has been providing humanitarian aid to several countries,…

Media

#SONA2021 “response” issued by @IBONFoundation sounds like a shrill girly temper tantrum

July 27, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The problem with leftist-militant groups is they shoot a shotgun to hit all the targets and end up shooting themselves in the foot instead. I wonder how Sonny Africa, Executive Director of the leftist “think tank” IBON Foundation, will run the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) in the unlikely event he’s appointed as its chief?…

Economy

Communists like @TonyoCruz and their fronts like @IBONFoundation push AYUDA nga-nga culture

July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Where is the substance in the drivel Ka Tonyo Cruz writes? Numbers he cited in his Manila Bulletin piece “P10,000 aid for all is needed — and possible” comes from none other than his comrade IBON Foundation Executive Director Sonny Africa. That biased “source” makes everything he writes suspect from the very beginning. Predictably he…

Culture, Government, Society

IBON Foundation “red-tagging” complaint will fly only if they can CATEGORICALLY DENY links to the Communist Party

February 10, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

News has now gotten around that communist front IBON Foundation filed an administrative complaint against Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy among others. IBON Foundation reportedly claim that Badoy engaged in “red tagging”. Presumably, the complaint draws partly from a video showing Badoy allegedly “hijacking” the agenda of a talk show that included…

Politics, Society

Malacanang assertion that communists are behind UNHRC “investigation” holds water

July 13, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

It is common knowledge that the Philippine Left and key partisan blocs in the Opposition led by the Yellowtards (rabid followers of the Aquino-Cojuangco clan) are working together to undermine and even overthrow the Philippine Government through illegal and even violent means. Thus, the theory that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is somehow…

Crime, Government

Rehabilitation of #Haiyan devastation report card: Philippine Gov’t FAIL

November 11, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

Even way back on the 24th October this year, Ibon Foundation had already highlighted in a report the unimpressive performance of the Philippine government in the rehabilitation of the disaster zones left by Haiyan. The report quotes numbers from the Office of the Presidential Assistant for Rehabilitation and Recovery (OPARR) which show that the region…

Civics, Development, Economy, Government

What we learned from PNoy’s 5th State of the Nation Address

July 29, 2014 benign0 32 Comments

I stand corrected. Last night I issued this rather glib tweet: “So what do we at GRP do now? We predicted EXACTLY what #PNoy was gonna say in #SONA2014. #NoChallenge”. The fact is, Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III, in the State of the Nation Address (SONA) he delivered before Congress yesterday, did leave…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics