9/17/26
DYNASTIES MOUNTING IN NUMBER
Political families have grown cumulatively in recent years. The Philippines’ political families - often called "fat dynasties" where multiple relatives hold public office at the same time - grew from 19% to 29% between 1988 and 2019. Political dynasties today dominate a vast majority of elected positions.
7/12/26
𝗖𝗲𝗻𝗣𝗘𝗚: 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆, 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁-𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) joins the Filipino people in commemorating the 10th anniversary of the landmark 2016 Arbitral Award, a historic legal victory that affirmed the Philippines' sovereign rights and maritime entitlements within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The ruling remains a powerful affirmation that international law—not the use of force or unilateral assertions—should govern the...
5/4/26
FINANCIAL GAIN AND EMOTIONAL PAIN
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 Philippines, frequently...
9/17/26
DYNASTIES MOUNTING IN NUMBER
Political families have grown cumulatively in recent years. The Philippines’ political families - often called "fat dynasties" where multiple relatives hold public office at the same time - grew from 19% to 29% between 1988 and 2019. Political dynasties today dominate a vast majority of elected positions.
9/8/26
Selective Accountability, Deepening Economic Crisis, and Continued US Subservience
The Marcos administration’s claims of reform and economic development are increasingly undermined by selective anti-corruption efforts, worsening economic conditions, and the continued repression of communities resisting state and corporate projects. At the same time, its deepening alignment with the United States, particularly amid intensifying great-power competition, further constrains Philippine economic and foreign-policy independence.
8/31/26
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISES & UPRISINGS
An unprecedented constitutional and accountability crisis has engulfed the nation. The crisis is predicated by the ongoing historic Senate impeachment trial of the Republic’s Vice President Sara Duterte. Compounding the situation, the Philippines is in a state of high polarization as the Marcos-Sara Duterte "UniTeam" alliance has completely shattered into open institutional warfare.
8/24/26
PAX SILICA – A Strategic Project of American Hegemony on The Edge
After installing Expanded Defense Cooperation Agreements (EDCAs) in nine different sites in the Philippines between 2014 under former President Benigno Aquino III and current President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., both the US and Philippine administrations have drawn flaks from peasant and other progressive organizations particularly in Tarlac province, Central Luzon, in reaction to a new, ambitious project called Pax Silica.
8/11/26
POLITICAL RIFTS WIDEN AS SARA DUTERTE FACES IMPEACHMENT
With inflation rate easing to 6.5% in July 2026, the Philippines remained scarred by a 4.8% unemployment and 11% poverty alongside 52% self-rated poverty or more than half of the population. Compare the country’s low economic growth to the high intensity of political infighting among the country’s ruling elite particularly between the Ilocos-based Marcos dynasty and Davao-based Dutertes – and one may conclude that politics is going askew. Meanwhile, the US-Israel war against Iran has failed and
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