National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict

I HAD to sit in silence since finding out that one of the most despised and least trusted persons in the Philippines has been given

IT has been almost a year now since the ruckus that resulted from statements I issued cautioning celebrities that the Kamatayan bloc

AFTER 38 years and three months of military service, I am finally retired. I am forever grateful to the government and the Filipino people

IN his five years in office, President Duterte has changed the course of Philippine history, although his breakthroughs conceivably can

IT has been 32 days since the fatal murder of Kieth and Nolven Absalon in Masbate City. The more I dig deeper into the circumstances of that

PIA Ranada of Rappler did an interview with Ana Tabunda of Pulse Asia. It is obvious that this is part of the pre-SONA (State of the Nation

A FRIEND of mine asked me to write a rejoinder to an article being written by Marites Vitug with the title: "Seeing Red

THE National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) will push for global pressure on the Dutch government to deport

IF communist rebels in the Philippines actually wanted peace, their best chance of realizing it is now with the incumbent government.

I got a lot of flak over my recent statement that Duterte may yet be the best president we ever had next to Magsaysay. It is so obvious and

ONCE in a while, truth is suddenly revealed much like a bolt of lightning in an instant reveals a landscape in a dark night.

By BusinessMirror The dastardly murders of Kieth Absalon and his cousin Nolven Absalon should be a wake-up call, especially for those...

There is confusion, angst on the ground, and the pining as to when the use of anti-personnel mine be stopped in the Bicol countryside.

All along, I was made to believe that the underground Left, particularly the New People’s Army, adheres to the Geneva Convention with regard

LAST week, I wrote about the hundreds of New People's Army (NPA) rebels going back to the fold of the law just in the past two months. As if

THE armed Philippine communist insurgency bred martyrs to its cause, posers after ego and gain and enormous collateral damage in its wake.

AND I mean both: as a failed revolutionary organization and in terms of its leaders. The party is 52 years old, nearly four decades more

I HAVE written a lot about red-tagging and what it is not, and I promise I won't stop until we get to the bottom of it. I don't mind being

WAR is costly but a protracted insurgency war is even more so. The armed forces and the police are spending billions year in and year out

A LOT has been said about how unorthodox the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) has been in handling this