The National Democratic Front in Southern Mindanao marks this year’s Earth Day commemoration with strongest condemnation of the US-Duterte regime’s latest affront to the environment and the Filipino people: Executive Order No. 130, a neoliberal policy that lifts the moratorium on new mining agreements. It is an outright plunder and sell-out of our resources and […]
Under flimsy pretext, imperialist China recently deployed hundreds of armed maritime militia vessels in the Julia Felipe Reef situated within Philippine exclusive economic zone; and eventually, bolstered by Duterte regime’s dithering posture, annexed the said maritime territory of the country by unlawfully declaring it as part one of its island groups using the frivolous “historical […]
When Duterte spoke before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) a few days ago, he asserted that the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Arbitration Court is “now part of international law, beyond compromise and beyond the reach of passing governments to dilute, diminish or abandon.” He declared: “We firmly reject attempts to undermine it” and […]