ANTONIO J. MONTALVAN II is a Mindanao anthropologist and ethnohistorian. He is a Ford Foundation scholar for the doctorate in anthropology on Mindanao Studies with the Mindanao Anthropology Consortium. Montalvan has written articles about Mindanao history and culture in academic journals.
When media lies, it disempowers
Everyday, media advances the literacy of citizens by enabling them to critically understand issues, evaluate its content, and communicate a whole range of social and political situations.
His first act as Agriculture Secretary
Now that he says his run for president was based on the family’s survival, now that even his department could not control the prices of onions skyrocketing like bedlam, we see the essential Bongbong Marcos: family and cronies first helping out on government money. So very much like his father and mother.
Secret construction rush for Marcos abode
First priority: our family’s comfort and its party-parties.
The House’s year-ender gift: Mandatory ROTC
It is a year-ender gift that is not welcome. Mandatory ROTC must be opposed in the campuses and on the streets.
Roderick Paulate is a small fry
Roderick Paulate is a small fry. Does that matter? No. He must go to jail for his crimes. But if his sentence is 62 years maximum prison time for 30 ghost employees over a period of just 5 months, how much more the Dutertes with 11,246 over a period of years?
