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Blatant Hague interference
The Philippines ratified the Statute in 2011 but formally withdrew on 17 March 2018, with the withdrawal taking effect one year later.
‘Careful Filipinos, you’re small’
When you keep reminding us how big you are, it starts sounding like you need the reminder more than we do.
Hail Mary play
The timing is strategic, as the involvement of two senators and allies of the former President generated headlines that influence public…
Can we still trust our leaders?
What happened at the Mango Tee was a metaphor for the cancer that has been infecting our society — the very reason we have widespread…
Tapping that DDS mystique
By means of their authority, the ‘co-perpetrators’ supposedly controlled a power structure that enabled them to control those who executed…
Will electing Sara president burnish Phl’s image?
This future is not inevitable. The same popular sentiment that elevated the Dutertes can be rechanneled.
Throwing off the scent
The Floodgate scandal centered on hundreds of billions of pesos worth of ‘ghost’ and substandard flood control projects under the…
Valentine truce?
Are all the forces of good coming together to make that final push for a change that we can really feel?
Deception ‘Floodgate’
Bersamin later went public, saying he did not voluntarily resign but was effectively asked to step down.
Holier than thou
If God wanted priests to pick presidents, He wouldn’t have made Adam and Eve choose an apple in the first place.
Coming full circle
Under the pork barrel racket, which has plagued yearly budgets but intensified during the term of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., officials…
Red alert: ‘Doble cara’ politicos in our midst
Their (Marcoletas’) voices amplify narratives that serve Chinese territorial expansionist ambitions at the expense of Philippine…
Winnie’s knife twist
The trigger was activated through a racket initiated by a collusion between Congress leaders and then Finance Secretary Ralph Recto.
Why talking back to China matters
We cannot afford to be quiet against China while our territory is being grabbed, one calibrated shove at a time. Fire away, Jay.
A collapsing sick society
The middle stratum’s ordeal is reflected in an inefficient health system, strained by incompetence and abuse serving the incumbent’s…
Marcoleta, who are you with?
Who goes there to tell Filipinos they’re squatting? Who tells the soldiers? Who lowers the flag?
A perfect hijack
The syndicate within government repurposed the UA to feed its appetite for pork, inflating it to unprecedented levels.