National Task Force to
End Local Communist Armed Conflict

JOSE Ma Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has always referred to the government as a “reactionary

"Only those with independent means can afford independent views.” Virginia Woolf, the English writer, stated this truism. I can honestly

Like it or not, Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., in a most effortless way, suddenly becomes the benchmark for whether one is pro- or anti-

THE verbal tussle between some members of the Senate and myself has escalated over the past week. It started with the community pantry

By definition, balik-loob means coming back to something, perhaps a system (among others), where faith and trust is restored.

"Herbosa wasn’t against the community pantries. He was against allowing the mushrooming of pantries that operate without any regard for

FIFTEEN senators including the Majority Floor Leader and former President of the Ruling Party signed a resolution

Sounds familiar, right? Similar to the slogans you see in the community pantries sprouting all over the country, but no, it’s a quote from

A NUMBER of speculations has surfaced from the continuing controversy on the Julian Felipe Reef in the South China Sea. Defense Secretary

GOING back to that short but significant part of history that the liberals have always kept from us, let us all understand the beginnings of

THE vehement reaction of some Senators to the revelation of Director General Alex Paul Monteagudo of the National Intelligence Coordinating

NATURA non facit saltus — nature does not make jumps, or so they say. That belief in continuity was ingrained in our scientific culture

TODAY, we had to witness, once again, the travesty made commonplace by the CPP-NPA-NDF: the shameless spectacle of government workers

Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. calls it a “strange bedfellows” relationship, the 1Sambayan Coalition, reportedly formed to represent

LAST March 29, the communist New People’s Army (NPA) celebrated its 52nd year of terrorizing our people — 50,000 civilians dead

WITH all due respects, the first meaning of haram is sanctuary. That was what the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) intended

ACCUSATIONS of red-tagging by the government will not stop, as expected, and so we don’t stop explaining and exposing why this is so

THE so-called Human Rights watchdogs are smarting over the rescue of the minor children of the indigenous tribes who were traced by welfare

FOR over five decades now, the Communist Party of the Philippines has been waging a rebellion with only one thing in mind: the violent