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Twisting, fudging and danger in the media world

Gunshot wounds and blood are unable to conceal the text on the red shirt worn by labor rights leader Dandy Miguel the night he was killed: 'Sahod, trabaho, karapatan, ipaglaban' (Fight for salary, jobs, and rights).

Pro-democracy groups across the Philippine political spectrum joined forces and aimed to field a single opposition standard-bearer to challenge President Rodrigo Duterte’s anointed one in the 2022 presidential elections.

If ordinary people can overcome powerful companies to protect their water in a poor country like El Salvador, imagine what their counterparts can do here.

Women’s resistance is a tidal wave! More from Myanmar! And Jayati Ghosh on Samir Amin on imperialism

Reader Comments: Stop Anti-Asian Violence; PRO Act; Filibuster; GOP Pushes More Voter Restrictions; Fukushima - Ten Years On; Religion and Anti-Vietnam War Movement; Right-Wing Populism; lots of announcements and Zoom events; more....

"The government's increasingly brutal counter-insurgency campaign... no longer makes any distinction between armed rebels and non-combatant activists, labor leaders, and rights defenders."

Defining imperialism today - what’s changed, and what hasn’t?

New year, new realities in Russia, China, Cuba and Vietnam

The Philippines has long relied on the remittances of its more than 2 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), without concerning itself with their reintegration. Now COVID-19 has exposed the deep-seated cracks in its labor export-based economy.