Senate bound to self-destruct
There’s a kind of ‘fear factor’ going on that appears to gain relevance only if articulated over social media platforms —be it of a fresh thought, or worse,…
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Primer Pagunuran
Primer Pagunuran currently drafts his dissertation proposal on infrastructural policy via public private partnership for his Doctor of Public Administration. With a master’s in public policy at UP Diliman, he used to be the chief of staff of key legislators of the House of Representatives. At the Center for Integrative and Development Studies, he is part of the research team that begun seminal work on Philippine federalism. He has written in local and foreign journals and presented papers in international conferences. In between, he plays tennis, loves to travel, fends for birds, a dog and cat lover, a marksman, a widower.
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Rating PMA alumni turned politicians
The post-incident narrative scoped and framed what happened as an interventionist NBI overstepping the legal bounds of what it sought to accomplish within…
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$1.5-trillion U.S. defense budget
One might say Hegseth was not a prominent Fox News host for nothing, if he had a respectable stint as a military war veteran.
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King Charles has spoken
To call Charles’ speech a masterclass is an understatement. It was packed with all the wit, humor, candor and acumen that it could bear.
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U.S. sanctions, deals, bombs
At this critical juncture, the Philippine defense secretary must be more circumspect and refrain from issuing statements favoring the US and antagonistic to…
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Trump’s scorecard — pass or fail?
Ten years ago, Hilary Clinton fairly warned of Donald Trump as commander-in-chief, particularly of him ‘making life or death decisions on behalf of the…
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Hellish American psyche
Intervening street protests across the continental US registered the disagreement of the American people with Trump, whose utopian, albeit myopic, view of…
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US-Israeli war against Iran
There was a premature statement that Iran had been obliterated when, in reality, the ‘two to three weeks promise’ of an end to the US mission only highlighted…
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Who is Senator Rodante Marcoleta?
Dante’s demonstrable trait of championing the public interest over rent-seekers, lobbyists, and oligarchs appears to rattle the cage of the Senate as a…
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