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Duterte’s #SONA2016 message: No time for blame games. We’ve got a job to do!

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Duterte’s #SONA2016 message: No time for blame games. We’ve got a job to do!

Many would have understood if President Rodrigo Duterte had devoted a big portion of his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) to blaming his predecessor. After all Duterte did acknowledge, just the same, that the Philippines is still in a “mess” and that Filipinos are suffering. But Duterte’s first SONA came across like a…

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Crime, Government, Society

Aquino supporters are blocking Duterte’s War on Drugs

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Aquino supporters are blocking Duterte’s War on Drugs

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” has a problem. There is a noisy minority who is against it and bent on making Duterte look like the bad guy at every step of his campaign to rid the country of the drug scourge. As if it weren’t hard enough dealing with drug lords and other…

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Crime, Government, Politics

Gloria Arroyo’s acquittal proves Noynoy Aquino is a failure

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Gloria Arroyo’s acquittal proves Noynoy Aquino is a failure

The cornerstone of former President Benigno Simeon Aquino’s so-called fight against corruption — the jailing of his predecessor, former President Gloria Arroyo — just got shot down by the Supreme Court. The last remaining case against Arroyo, which was the plunder case over the alleged misuse of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) funds, was finally…

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Crime, Government, Politics

Leila De Lima is to blame for persistence of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines

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Leila De Lima is to blame for persistence of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines

The way social media “activists” are chattering about the supposed sudden surge of “extrajudicial killings” (EJKs) in recent weeks, you’d think that the Philippines has descended into an orgy of vigilantism under current President Rodrigo Duterte. The fact is, EJKs have long been a business-as-usual feature of Filipino-style “justice”. Back in 2010, the Hong Kong-based…

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Crime, Government

Inquirer…the rise of tabloid journalism

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Inquirer…the rise of tabloid journalism

Dear Inquirer, The title of your article, “Leni slams growing culture of vigilantism”, published on July 13, 2016, in your newspaper caught my attention.  I was aghast after reading it.1 YOUR TITLE IS GROSSLY EXAGGERATED.  You used the words, “Leni SLAMS growing culture of violence”.  What a word to use, slam means to criticize harshly…

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Crime, Government, Politics

A first in Ph history: Duterte government TALK consistent with its WALK!

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A first in Ph history: Duterte government TALK consistent with its WALK!

Bodies are piling upon bodies recently as a wave of “rub-outs” (politely known as “extrajudicial killings”) make headline news everyday. There is no shortage of indignation about these incidents being waxed all over social media and corporate media outlets so any further feeding of the outrage will merely come across as redundant bandwagoning. What we…

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Crime, Government

5 cops named and shamed, but early days of Duterte’s war on drugs draws mixed reviews

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5 cops named and shamed, but early days of Duterte’s war on drugs draws mixed reviews

What to make of what’s happening in the Philippines today. Reports of “drug lords”, drug dealers, kidnappers, carjackers, and the like being killed in police operations fill the news. It could be a shortfall in reporting resources deployed by Philippine corporate news organisations that makes facts surrounding these incidents spotty but there seems to be…

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Crime

Necessary Evil: How the Philippines Thrives on Criminality

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Necessary Evil: How the Philippines Thrives on Criminality

Would you ever go watch a movie that didn’t have a villain? Likely not. In fact, we often glorify good villains – those who excel at being bad. Would box-office hits rake in their millions without the likes of the Joker, Darth Vader, and Cobra? Would there be heroes without the resilient antagonist that brings…

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Crime, Society