National Issues
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Oil Price Shock: Market manipulation, not Middle East conflict, to blame — Piston
Piston strongly condemns the looming P5 per liter big-time oil price increase. The real culprit behind the relentless price shocks are market speculation and profiteering, not the Israel-Iran conflict as so often claimed. The truth is, global oil prices are being manipulated by traders and oil giants who exploit every hint of geopolitical tension to…
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Philippine Independence Day: A nation still in the passenger seat of US Imperialism
This June 12, as the Philippines commemorates its Independence Day from centuries of colonial control, we must confront a bitter reality: the country may have formally declared independence in 1898 and 1946, but political, economic, and military control by foreign powers, especially by the United States, never truly let go of the wheel. The legacy…
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PISTON: System errors and red-tagging undermine election credibility, underscores need for manual count
Piston expresses deep concern over reports released by the Makabayan Coalition citing 29 incidents of automated counting machine (ACM) errors and 15 cases of red-tagging on election day, as of 10:00 AM, May 12. These reports include ballots being rejected or mishandled by ACM, smudged ballots, overvoting issues, manual ballot collection due to machine failure,…
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Piston demands urgent action: Jail Duterte now, no more delays
Piston joins the nationwide call for justice by demanding the immediate transfer of Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court (ICC). We condemn the Duterte camp’s attempts to obstruct accountability and we urge the ICC to act swiftly to ensure Duterte faces trial for crimes against humanity. Under Duterte’s bloody “war on drugs,” over…
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Piston on new DOTr secretary Vince Dizon: Recycled Digong-era pro-corporate face
Piston raises concern about the Philippine government’s latest appointment of former Duterte aide Vince Dizon as Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) under the Marcos Jr. administration. Dizon, a key architect of the Duterte regime’s Build Build Build program and former CEO of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), carries a notorious record…