14+ hour, 22+ min ago   (438+ words) What it claimed was that 6.5 million Filipinos moved from below to above the very artificial poverty threshold it had invented years ago. It has not established that 6.5 million Filipinos ceased being poor, in the ordinary meaning of that word. At…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (643+ words) WE’RE suffering not only from the rottenness of our political architecture, worsened by the unprecedented corruption in the current administration and Congress. Hardly figuring in the public discourse though is that fact that we are also being impoverished because of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (893+ words) HOW does the Filipino know what is happening in his country? Those two numbers — Facebook 75 percent, newspapers 3 percent — encapsulate the biggest revolution in Philippine mass communications since television arrived. They would seem to announce the death of the newspaper columnist…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (499+ words) Salim’s control of these media firms is in violation of the constitutional ban on foreign capital in media, although Salim has exploited legal loopholes to do this. Amazingly, no one, no administration, has questioned this anomaly defying our Constitution in…...

4+ week, 14+ hour ago   (400+ words) Marcos is, indeed, the son of the dictator, who clung to power after his second and constitutionally last term by weaponizing the Constitution to declare one-man rule in September 1972. Charter change, the impeachment war against Vice President Sara Duterte, and…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (519+ words) THE Marcos bloc in the Senate struggling to implement the budding dictator’s two-pronged agenda to bar through impeachment Vice President Sara Duterte’s presidential candidacy in 2028, and the investigation of the massive flood control scam has gone berserk. It has sunk…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (656+ words) President Marcos’ media minions have also adopted a propaganda tack of portraying the 13 independent senators — especially Senate President Alan Cayetano — as degrading that body, rather than defenders of it. President Marcos has pulled out all the stops for the conviction…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (836+ words) THE latest Social Weather Stations and Pulse Asia polls have inadvertently revealed the real story behind the impeachment trial against Vice President Sara Duterte that starts in July, that of her father by the International Criminal Court that starts in…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (818+ words) FOR nearly three decades now, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has wrapped itself in the lofty rhetoric of universal justice, accountability and humanity’s supposedly highest moral aspirations. Yet the arrest and coming trial of former president Rodrigo Duterte, and now the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (336+ words) TWO news clips during the Holy Week gave me goosebumps: – As a Khorramshahr long-range missile lifts off to kill people in Tel Aviv, there is shouting in the background, “Allahu Akbar! This is an Arabic phrase meaning “Allah is the…...