From democracy to kleptocracy
Forget what we have been taught in school that in a democracy, there are checks and balances. These days, they are called transactions.
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Forget what we have been taught in school that in a democracy, there are checks and balances. These days, they are called transactions.
The Senate Hall, the Batasang Pambansa, the Palace by the River Pasig still stand. But the spirit is gone.
A former DENR Assistant Secretary faces allegations of multiple fraudulent schemes targeting officials, businesspeople, and acquaintances, using her government…
Jakarta, Kathmandu and Manila itself: we have seen how protests turn, how quickly they dissolve into tear gas and truncheons, how easily the poor end up as…
By accurately pinning down some of our reprehensible political leaders as kleptocrats we’ll be better off. Calling them merely corrupt is too kind and cuddly.
Before we complain that today’s young are cynical, impatient, distracted and detached, my generation should first answer a harder question: What did we give…
The 2028 election is not far off and if perchance VP Sara becomes president they will have to settle their obligations pronto.
Notes the World Bank: workers without secondary education are unable to find formal jobs; this reality persists because corruption diverts investment away from…
A BIR revenue officer in Zamboanga City has been convicted of multiple counts of money laundering after an NBI sting and AMLC probe exposed bank deposits far…
By and large, the ICI failed the litmus test of unquestionable independence and abandoned the guiding tenets of transparency and accountability.
A sharp critique of the Marcos administration links slowing economic growth, stalled public spending, and weakening investor confidence to entrenched…
From flood control to hospitals, corruption trail widens
Every peso lost to fraud is a peso denied to communities left vulnerable to climate change and rising flood risks.
On September 21, 1972, Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, granting himself sweeping powers. Critics call it a “conjugal dictatorship” that led to…
It’s like being pushed to the edge of hopelessness and helplessness and suddenly someone throws a rope to save our nation from kingdom come.