Opinion/Analysis

Of counter-hegemonic ‘dictators’

January 6, 2026

That the US, under Trump, has blatantly, brazenly, and unapologetically, and without even the pretense of justification such as “Colin Powell before the UN,” or Cheney and Rumsfeld’s spurious claims of “weapons of mass destruction” in Saddam’s Iraq, attacked a sovereign country without the approval of its own Congress, which he needed to declare war, or the international community, or the UN, is staggering.

Sara as supersensitive ‘Chucky’

January 6, 2026

Sara is also a lawyer but her call for Castro to be sanctioned for issuing a fair comment stretches the bounds of credulity. There are no lese majeste laws in the Philippines that apply to monarchs and the princess of San Pedro, Davao City.

Veto a budget that drips with grease

January 5, 2026

Between the interest of lawmakers and the detritus of the bureaucracy and the howling rage of the Filipino people, the President should have said sternly: No pork.

Villars push their luck too far

January 1, 2026

The Villars have made a career of window-dressing their assets, bloating their values and establishing Villar malls in irrigated lands to push the value of their properties and make use of riverine easements for roads traversing their subdivisions, not to help residents but to make their appraisers raise the value of their land sky-high.

Levistes flay solar power franchise

December 31, 2025

Filipino wags have paraphrased Balzac by saying “behind every great fortune is a mother.” That doting mother might refer to Senator Loren Legarda, a survivor in the dog-eat-dog environment of politics by advocating the economics of the environment.

Gov’t not serious on peace talks

December 30, 2025

“The main reason for the impasse in the peace talks is Marcos insistence on scrapping all agreements made over the past 30 years of NDF-GRP negotiations, including The Hague Joint Declaration, the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees, the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, and others. Marcos shows he does not honor the GRP’s signature, undermining the trust of the NDF and the people,” CPP said.

NDF actions stump gov’t

December 26, 2025

The promise of Marcos Jr. to write finis to the revolutionary movement hasn’t come to pass. That dog won’t hunt.

Leandro Leviste, the magician

December 25, 2025

Others are also itching to slam the mother-and-son for what they claim to be their own campaign to secure “allocable funds” for Batangas and Antique to the tune of P3-billion which ousted DPWH secretary Manuel Bonoan reportedly rejected, preferring not to fiddle with the National Expenditure Plan (NEP) approved by the plenary.

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