Opinion/Analysis

Dutertes smacked twice

Rodrigo suffered a big smack while detained at the Scheveningen Prison in The Hague while the daughter, who comports herself as if she were entitled to royal treatment, got her version of the big slap when the House of Representatives cut the budget of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) from the proposed P889.2 million to P733.2 million.

Ramon Ang’s *boo-boos

PR operators and columnists should take a deep breath, wean themselves away from the hype and the usual Ramon Ang overestimation of himself and his projects, with the delayed MRT-7 as a prime example of the virtue of not believing in your own propaganda.

Sara’s real need: A shrink

Clearly, she thinks she is already the President and no one must disobey her. Indeed, she believes, contrary to reality, that the 2028 presidential election must not be held as she has already beaten all her rivals in 2022.

Reclamation project to worsen flooding

Stealing 10,000 hectares from the sea means reducing the volume of water that Manila Bay can carry, thus guaranteeing floods ion Metro Manila, while allowing at least five seabed quarrying operations in several Cavite towns are a surefire method to destroy the marine environment and force schools of fish to migrate to deeper sections of the bay.

Fiscal impunity with unprogrammed funds

In one fell swoop, Tinio and the Makabayan Coalition destroyed the Palace claim that Marcos Jr. had nothing to do with flood control project implementation.

Sara Duterte goes full PDS

The empress has no clothes. And millions of Filipinos are wabbit due to her pettifoggery, legalistic nonsense and plain stupidity.

Justice for victims of Sept. 21 dispersal

As the rapacity of the Duterte and Marcos Jr. regimes in using vacuum cleaners to empty the budgets for flood control projects is laid bare, more and more protests are shattering the insouciance of the administration, with millions of people finally acknowledging that the plunder of the people’s money would not happened without the connivance of Malacanang, Congress and the very agencies charged with auditing the Department of Public Works and Highways.

KMU rips bogus order on worker rights

The labor center stressed that EO 97 “twists the demands of workers for justice and accountability and does not address the long and bloody list of murdered unionists.”

Duterte trial will proceed

The prosecution concluded that Duterte acted as an indirect co-perpetrator under Article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute and bore responsibility for ordering, aiding, and abetting killings.