Anakbayan: Bato an ‘utter fool’ for picking on students-activists

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 06:01:37 +0000

Anakbayan: Bato an ‘utter fool’ for picking on students-activists

Anakbayan has called Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa an “utter fool” and told him: “Children grow up into mature adults unlike him.”

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Military vows to end insurgency in Eastern Visayas

Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 05:00:08 +0000

CATBALOGAN CITY –– Government troops in Eastern Visayas are determined to end the insurgency problem in the region. Major General Pio Diñoso III, commanding general of the 8th Infantry Division, said they would be given the “best” both in personnel and in assets after President Duterte identified Eastern Visayas as a “priority area.” “The President […]

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Daughter refutes mom: I am not missing, brainwashed; I left home willingly

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 11:58:55 +0000

Daughter refutes mom: I am not missing, brainwashed; I left home willingly

The daughter of a woman, who testified before a Senate inquiry on the alleged recruitment of students by leftist groups, has clarified that she never was missing nor kidnapped, or even brainwashed by Anakbayan.

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Lorenzana hits ‘deceptive’ recruitment of minors to leftist groups

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 09:59:42 +0000

Lorenzana hits ‘deceptive’ recruitment of minors to leftist groups

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Thursday scored the reported recruitment of students and minors by left-leaning organizations. 

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Duterte wants firemen armed so they can help fight Reds, crime

Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 22:00:00 +0000

Du30 wants firemen armed so they can help fight Reds, crime

President Duterte wants an expanded mandate for firemen to include their participation in the government’s anti-insurgency operations.

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Negros Occidental gov says there’s no telling what Duterte would do with martial law in neighbor Oriental

Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:50:41 +0000

Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said he hoped for an end to the bloodshed in his neighboring province, Negros Oriental, so President Rodrigo Duterte won’t have to use emergency powers or declare martial law.

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NPA combatants in Southern Luzon are mostly young – AFP

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:07:08 +0000

NPA combatants in Southern Luzon are mostly young – AFP

New People’s Army (NPA) combatants in Southern Luzon are young, most of them in their early 20s, with some coming from universities, according to Lt. Gen. Gilbert Gapay, commander of the Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

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Duterte calls on task force vs insurgency to ‘work doubly hard’

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:54:53 +0000

President Duterte has urged the government task force on communism to “work doubly hard” to end the decades-long insurgency in the Philippines.

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