Trillanes: DFA chief deliberately worsened PH row with China
If our relations with China are at their lowest ever, and if Filipinos are livid at the superpower for its purported bullying, our top diplomat, Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del…
Belmonte, Drilon take us all for fools
It’s so sad for our country that our high officials, the leaders of the legislature, either are taking us for fools, think we’re all stupid, or are treating us like…
Is Miriam the only real senator left?
For all intents and purposes, a resounding yes. Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago is the only one in the 24-member chamber shocked and aghast—as the entire Congress and nation should be—that President…
The horror: Our national shame continues
I’m afraid the photos published the other day of the demonstration led by the National Press Club and the National Union of Journalists protesting the snail pace of justice for…
Born into a class, you’ll die in that class
That’s not some Marxist firebrand sloganeering. It’s one of the many insights one can conclude from an academically rigorous book that came out earlier this year by economic historian Gregory…
P83 billion unused for coconut-industry poverty alleviation
It could be another case, as worse as its lead-footed release of funds for Yolanda-devastated areas, of the Aquino Administration’s criminal inefficiency and sluggishness in undertaking real reform programs. Or…
Where have all the senators gone?
I mean the real senators as we have known them in the past, who lived up to the etymology of the term (from Latin senex, old man), and who embodied…
Marcos: The Great, Tragic Reformer
Last August 22, as if timed as a counter-event to the August 21 commemoration of Ninoy Aquino’s assassination, the darkest point of the 13-year dictatorship – the University of the…
At last, somebody stands up to bullies
The bullies are Senators Antonio Trillanes 4th and Alan Cayetano, as well as the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee itself. It should be more appropriately named the Yellow Ribbon Committee, since…
Exposed: The govt’s biggest boo-boo on the Yolanda fiasco
A year after the Yolanda disaster, the biggest boo-boo of President Aquino’s top officials tasked to deal with the Super Typhoon remained unexposed, or at least not given the appropriate…