Category: Politics

3 Big Reasons Former President Ferdinand Marcos Should Be Buried Among Heroes

May 24, 2016May 25, 2016 Grimwald 66 Comments

There’s been a lot of talk since soon-to-be president Mayor Rodrigo Duterte announced that he would finally allow former president Ferdinand Marcos to be buried among heroes. Indeed, hardcore Marcos supporters see this as a chance to vindicate their dear leader in the annals of history and show that there was indeed some good that…

Government, Politics, Society

The Rodrigo Duterte presidency could be besieged by a hostile Congress and power-hungry Leni Robredo!

May 20, 2016 benign0 26 Comments

President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte won by a landslide in this year’s elections. Most remarkable of all, he won it being true to and consistent with his nature. What we saw in him as mayor of Davao City is what we got during the campaign. Will what we get out of him as president be consistent with…

Crime, Government, Politics

Leni Robredo should prioritize honest elections over her own interests

May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 Ilda 43 Comments

Philippine Congresswoman Leni Robredo’s true character is starting to show. This is evident in how quickly she dismissed calls for a systems audit to determine if the election results were affected by the script change done to the server by Smartmatic technicians in the middle of canvassing of votes on Election Day. From a reluctant…

Government, Politics

Should Congress Give in to Duterte’s Demand to Reinstate the Death Penalty?

May 20, 2016 zaxx 34 Comments

The Philippines is the Menudo melting pot where religion and politics mix together to come up with a colorful and interestingly flavored concoction unique to this mixed-breed people that conspicuously keep appearing in headlines with all the noise they generate from their small corner of the globe. Again we are talk of the town all…

Culture, Government, Politics, Religion, Society

Why coal-minded Duterte is on the wrong side of history

May 19, 2016 Roy Joseph Roberto 15 Comments

In about 4 billion years from now, the Sun will leave the main sequence and will evolve into a Red Giant. While this stellar evolution is a spectacular cosmic phenomenon, it marks as well the complete annihilation of life on Earth. But long before that, in only about half a billion years, “the Sun gets…

Development, Economy, Environment, Government, Politics, Science, Technology

International media should move on from Duterte’s rape joke and focus on the hard tasks ahead

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 Ilda 28 Comments

Australian morning show Sunrise featured a segment on presumptive Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to discuss his win in the recent presidential elections. The show had an Australian political analyst named Dr Keith Suter as guest who speculated on what a Duterte President would be like. Even before he was introduced, the two hosts of the…

Culture, Media, Politics

Philippine blogging and social media in the time of President Rodrigo Duterte

May 17, 2016May 19, 2016 benign0 11 Comments

Now that the smoke belched by Election 2016 has cleared people seem to be reflecting on what just happened. It seems some of them have taken to taking stock of the social media landscape to try to make sense of and possibly shed light into what exactly got into Filipino voters’ heads. The underlying thinking…

Media, Politics, Society

Filipinos may finally see true ‘unity’ under a Duterte presidency

May 16, 2016 benign0 10 Comments

It no longer needs highlighting that Filipinos are now doing the right thing and embracing the leadership of President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte with open minds and a renewed hope in real change being implemented over the next six years. The reason Filipinos seem more inclined to take the journey together this time is that Duterte had…

Government, Politics