FORMER President Benigno Aquino III and his budget secretary Florencio Abadâs Disbursement Acceleration Program scheme involving P177 billion of taxpayersâ money from 2011 to 2013 was the most brazen hijacking…
I AM starting to think that because of his obsession to take down President Duterte, which he calculates would be his big feat that would catapult him to the presidency…
To journalists and NGOs: Get the who, where, what, how! THERE have been an alleged 7,080 extra-judicial killings (EJKs) committed under President Duterteâs administration, and even purportedly under his direction.…
THE Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism asked media outlets the other day to publish what it claimed was retired Police Officer 3 Arturo Lascañasâ âjournalâ exposing the âbloody exploits of…
EVERY February, we commemorate the 1986 People Power Revolution, which has been portrayed by the victors as a morality tale of a martyrâs widow leading the people to overthrow the…
THE biggest opportunity we missed because of the EDSA uprising, and Corazon Aquinoâs assumption to power because of that political upheaval, was our failure to shift toward a parliamentary system.…
THERE are several factors that explain our peopleâs weak sense of nationalism, among them: a foreign-descended ruling class that doesnât identify with the mostly ethnic Malay masses; the US colonizersâ…
Mostly during previous BS Aquino regime THE mining industryâs claims of its contribution to the economy arenât all correct, among other reasons, because of one important phenomenon: There has been…
WE have to face reality, and review the past. We have had, and continue to have such a weak stateâits bureaucracy ridden with corruption and inefficiencyâthat we have been, and…
Duterte given patently false data First of 2 Parts PRESIDENT Duterte last week argued for the return of the death penalty by referring to the purported statistics reported by the…
