We beg to differ.
I was a college student at the University of the Philippines when the United States was struck by a series of acts of terrorism on September 11, 2001. As my college friends and I were having dinner, live footage of the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City after each…
“They say the presidency is destiny. Perhaps the tribulation that the Vice President had to endure is how the universe is strengthening her for the most difficult job of her life.” With this premise PhilSTAR columnist Andrew Masigan deems it fit to claim that Leni Robredo is ripe for the Presidency in 2022. In his…
This is a bit of a stretch. Joel Pablo Salud in his piece “It’s perfectly fine to sympathize with the Afghan people, but…” published on Licas News writes that “Afghan people and Filipinos today share one thing in common: both find themselves at a crossroads. Both must decide their people’s fate. And while Afghans are…
The Chief Political Analyst gets all worked up in his Manila Times piece today “Moreno’s past and Duterte’s present”. Antonio Contreras writes about how President Rodrigo Duterte “demeaned and diminished” Manila Mayor Isko Moreno by referring to his past as a sex movie starlet and his posing in provocative photos dressed only in his underwear….
Showbiz personality Enchong Dee issued an “apology” to Congresswoman Claudine Bautista on Twitter today for suggesting last weekend that a Michael Cinco gown she wore in her recent wedding was funded by money stolen from the organisation Drivers United for Mass Progress and Equal Rights party list (DUMPER) which she represents in the Philippines’ House…
In his Inquirer piece today “Afghanistan: Biden’s ‘Fall of Saigon’ moment”, columnist Richard Javad Heydarian quotes former US ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker who “points out” that “the rot ‘began under President Trump when he authorized negotiations between the US and the Taliban without the Afghan government in the room,’ which was ‘a huge demoralizing…
A meme that accompanied a tweet issued by The Conversation accompanying a link to their article “As the Taliban returns, 20 years of progress for women looks set to disappear overnight” goes like this: “The world must not look away as the Taliban sexually enslaves women and girls.” Sad as the prospect of what the…
Harry Roque’s former law partner Joel Ruiz Butuyan posts a want ad for the opposition in his Inquirer piece “Wanted: An opposition coalition”. A “coalition” he says. For the opposition to get us out of the black hole the current administration has brought the country into, it needs all hands on deck. That means all…