Tag: antonio trillanes

To Trillanes: You did not complain when BS Aquino broke his promises

November 5, 2016 Ilda 34 Comments

Convicted mutineer and now Senator Antonio Trillanes is appealing to the public not to turn a blind eye to current President Rodrigo Duterte’s habit of breaking his promises. According to Trillanes “there’s something wrong with the Filipino people when support for the President remains strong despite his frequent turnarounds from official pronouncements.” He cited Duterte’s…

Government, Politics

Philippines finally comes home to Asia following Duterte’s groundbreaking trip to China

October 22, 2016October 22, 2016 benign0 66 Comments

Senator Leila de Lima was on a rampage following Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s reported shift of the country’s foreign policy to one that involves a cosying up to China and a “separation” from the United States. De Lima described Duterte’s move during his official visit to China this week as a “whole level of betrayal”….

Government, Politics

Do “Gatekeepers” want Citizen Journalism Shot Down?

October 11, 2016October 11, 2016 ChinoF 8 Comments

An interesting read I recently got was Media and Culture: Global Homogeneity and Local Identity by Rachel E. Khan. It has a chapter called Citizen Journalism and the Fall of Mass Media Hegemony, and it talks of how the Internet and other mass communication means allowed people to create their own posts, announcements and punditry…

Tech Talk

De Lima’s ouster and Trillanes’s apology: Bullying and mudslinging no longer tolerated in the Senate

September 19, 2016April 9, 2017 benign0 50 Comments

Senator Leila De Lima is finding out the hard way that, in politics, it is better to be likeable than to be “right”. This is after sixteen of her colleagues voted to remove her from the chairmanship of the Senate Justice Committee. De Lima, after all, is a newbie, yet her demeanour of late outsizes…

Politics, Society

Schadenfreude of the Elites: People who want Duterte to fail

September 19, 2016September 19, 2016 Carlo de Leon 19 Comments

Schadenfreude: Substantiv, feminin – boshafte Freude über das Missgeschick, Unglück eines andern. (Translation: Noun, feminine – malicious pleasure over the misfortune, mishap of someone else.)* An elite class that is free to operate without limits – whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior…

Economy, Government, Politics

Five Routes to the Presidency in the Philippines

May 14, 2016 zaxx 37 Comments

With Mayor Rody Duterte’s trail-blazing ascent to the presidency, we may have to rewrite the books on the ins and outs of politics in the country. He was from a marginalized region of the country way down South with a thick Visayan accent, had no pocket money of his own to launch a national campaign, came into…

Charter Change, Government, Politics

The criminal in senators’ clothing that is Antonio Trillanes

May 5, 2016 benign0 28 Comments

If there is anything or anyone that epitomises everything that is wrong with the Philippines, it is none other than “senator” Antonio Trillanes. I enclose “senator” in quotes whenever I refer to Trillanes because he is one only because a piece of paper says so. In spirit he is anything but. Indeed, even the idea…

Crime, Government

Rodrigo Duterte represents the revolution that was denied the Filipino

May 3, 2016 benign0 42 Comments

Leading presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte is unstoppable. He does not only weather storms, he thrives in them. The latest witchhunt launched by disgruntled vice presidential candidate Antonio Trillanes (who consistently ranks near bottom in the many surveys taken so far) was a mere blip on his radar. Duterte’s fans remain adamant in their choice, and…

Media, Politics, Society