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Most Filipinos don’t realize that our country is awash in wasted opportunities since it’s so-called independence from the Americans. The Americans were responsible for the destruction of infrastructure built during the 300 years of Spanish colonization most of which was lost during World War II. With Japan as its new pawn after the war, the…
The eleven minority Philippine senators versus the thirteen (presumably pro-Duterte) majority framed as a good-versus-bad battle is just the “good” pot calling the “bad” kettle black. Recall how the same senators were falling all over themselves and one another currying favor with the administration during the term of former President Rodrigo Duterte. The only “opposition”…
The eminent Inquirer columnist Cielito Habito in a recent piece wrote about the “self-destruction” of the Philippine Senate. Habito laments the plight of an institution the integrity of which took “decades to build” only for a majority bloc of 13 senators led by Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano to “ruin it” in “just three days”….
Such is the “high stakes” exercise this impeachment “trial” of Vice President Sara Duterte is made out to be. Yet its entire outcome — the anticipated “verdict” of this “trial” a long way down the track (if it ever does transpire) — is hinged on the quality of judgment to be passed by the so-called…
While the rest of the peoples of the world grapple with the big issues — many of them existential — the Philippines’ citizenry are subject to the ongoing feudal machinations of its ruling oligarchs. Indeed, the Philippine Senate is basically that — a chamber composed of people who are mostly members of the same tony…
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When all else fails, go biblical. Alex Magno writes in his PhilStar piece today. [Senator Risa] Hontiveros was betrayed by her support staff. She was arguing against archiving the impeachment case by resorting to fake news. Considering she has been accused of witness tampering in other cases, this peddling of fake news further taxes her…
Foot-in-mouth seems to be an emerging recurring disease among the Yellowidiots as evident in Senator Risa Hontiveros’s most recent gaffe where she “cited [the Supreme Court ruling on the ‘League of Cities’ case] as one of the examples of the high court previously reversing itself in unanimous decisions.” During the Senate’s deliberation on whether to…
Does Vice President Sara “Inday” Duterte have the momentum for a successful run to 2028? She never lost it despite her “ululations,” a word that the closeted professor Antonio Contreras liked to use in the past. He issues his prognosis on another Duterte presidency in his latest Manila Times piece on what he thinks is…
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