Shadow budget shattered
We challenge the Ombudsman and anti-graft bodies to aggressively investigate how these unconstitutional billions were moved and who benefited from them.
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Dennis Coronacion
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Numbers game
What began as a tense constitutional contest now looks more like a process shaped by an organized majority with a clear political interest.
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Time to drop landlubber mentality
For a nation bound by a complex maze of over 7,000 islands, our true destiny and our gravest vulnerabilities have always been written on the water.
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New system, same old autonomous politics
Genuine autonomy requires an independent leadership accountable solely to its Muslim constituency, entirely free from national executive strings.
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New system, same old autonomous politics
Beneath this optimistic rhetoric, a sober look at the landscape reveals a disappointing truth: while Muslim Mindanao has adopted a new parliamentary structure,…
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Politics and accountability
At their core, the two high-profile officials share a common thread: both appear to have fallen outside the President’s protective political orbit.
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Sara’s resilience
The survey is not the final word on Duterte’s future; it is a snapshot of an evolving political reality. Much can still change as the trial unfolds and public…
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Disease of neglect
‘Personal responsibility’ becomes a convenient slogan when government fails to provide safe streets, reliable transport, and clean neighborhoods.
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Tale of Article I’s origin
To voters, it looked like unity. To insiders, it looked like a political transaction.
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