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An alliance between the Yellowtards and the Marcos dynasty forms the Philippines’ new ruling oligarchy

May 12, 2024 Ramon Ortoll 6 Comments

In his Inquirer piece “Media, politics, and foreign relations”, columnist Randy David illuminates the recent media re-circus surrounding President Bongbong Marcos’s alleged history of drug use… It must have taken no small amount of pressure by the former president to get [Senator Ronald “Bato”] Dela Rosa, his erstwhile police chief, to initiate an investigation into…

Media, Politics

Maricel Soriano’s alleged abuse of domestic workers reflects Filipino society

July 4, 2011July 4, 2011 benign0 2 Comments

While much Media airtime is given to the abuse of domestic workers employed in foreign countries, not much interest seems to go the way of domestic workers employed by households in the Philippines. Faded star of the 1980s Maricel Soriano provides the most recent of cases that highlight the plight of domestic workers employed by…

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