We beg to differ.
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”…
According to Retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, Philippine courts have no say in anything ruled by the “International Criminal Court” (ICC). Carpio is essentially saying that Philippine law enforcement officers and agents can act entirely under the authority of the ICC completely bypassing the Philippines’ judiciary. ‘Yung local courts hindi na kailangan because this…
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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A post on social media platform X issued by media organisation Al Jazeera shows what seems to be a “report” on the ongoing drama in the Philippine Senate surrounding embattled Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa. There were reports of gunfire last night in the Senate building as dela Rosa attempted to flee arresting officers acting…
The trouble with the Philippines is that its political discourse is cursed with a lopsided ideological spectrum. There is a “far left” camp consisting of the commies, their terrorist “New People’s Army”, and the so-called Makabayan bloc of front organisations that orbit them. There is also a swathe of confused centre-left to centre-right camps that…
Inquirer columnist Randy David weighs in on the Toboso massacre in his piece “The other tasks of the university”. What the leftist-militant idiots are now calling a “massacre” is what the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) described as an encounter with elements of the New People’s Army (NPA), the terrorist arm of the Communist…