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The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) expresses its profound outrage over the continuing disorder, political maneuvering, and apparent efforts to undermine accountability in the Philippine Senate. The Senate was never intended to be a sanctuary for lawbreakers, a refuge from accountability, or a venue where political power can be used to frustrate the operation of justice. It is a constitutional institution entrusted with the solemn duty of making laws, e

The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) expresses grave concern over the disturbing incidents that unfolded in the Senate amid efforts to enforce the arrest warrant against Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, who is being sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity linked to the bloody anti-drug campaign under the Duterte administration. Reports of chaos, lockdowns, alleged gunfire, and attempts to portray the Senate as being “un

The April 20 – May 8 Balikatan armed exercises between the Philippines and the United States marked a dangerous turning point in the country’s strategic and security landscape. More disturbing was the live firing of a US Tomahawk cruise missile from Tacloban City to a target site in Laur, Nueva Ecija using the Typhon Mid-Range Capability (MRC) missile system.

Foreign policy is torn between maritime tensions with China and close defense ties with the US APRIL 2026 MONTHLY POLITICAL ANALYSIS April 2026 marked the deepening of political rifts between Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. and his former electoral teammate, Vice President Sara Duterte. While political power gravitated toward the current president, such power is not enough to grapple with bitter economic woes as poverty levels deepened. Maritime tensions between t

Why Filipino workers flock to China and other countries Bobby M. Tuazon CenPEG China is one among many countries where overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are employed amid limited job opportunities and slow economic growth in the Philippines. Today, about 230,000 OFWs work in China with major concentrations in the special administrative region of Hong Kong as well as in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Xiamen. Likewise, China is one of the top foreign investors in the Philippi

Bobby M. Tuazon Iran is a battlefront curated by the US and Israel for regime change and for the control of its oil industry. A hypothetical defeat of Iran will make it expedient for the US to attack China, marginalize Russia, and rejuvenate its dying hegemonic interests. This scenario, however, is without empirical basis given the decline of the American empire and the accelerated rise of China while pushing the fragile US-centric unipolar world off the cliff in favor of a

The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) expresses serious concern over recent reports indicating the expansion of United States military logistical operations into Mindanao, including reported equipment offloading activities linked to joint exercises such as Balikatan 2026. While these activities are framed as routine cooperation under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), their evolving scope reveals a deeper strategic transformation: the grad

Bobby M. Tuazon 06 April 2026 Going by military strikes alone, Iran may be winning the war in the Middle East. More than a month after the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran,the latter’s defensive strikes have damaged at least 11 major U.S. military installations in the Middle East, with some rendered unusable. Overall, the attacks have destroyed at least 17 total U.S. military, diplomatic, and air-defense sites, including key locations in Iraq, Syria,

Center for People’s Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) Monthly Political Briefer March 2026 Introduction March 2026 saw an intensifying political polarization in the Philippines in the wake of various corruption scandals and a rapidly deteriorating global security environment after the US and Israel’s attacks on Iran. Domestically, rival elite factions, principally aligned with the Marcos and Duterte camps, continued to consolidate their respective bases in anticipation o