In 2025, the real opposition are those who demand that the Marcoses and the Dutertes be held accountable for their crimes against our people. The real opposition are those who want to end the reign of political dynasties in our country.
One of the biggest scandals in Philippine politics is the inability of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to enforce the law about premature campaigning and its tragic failure to tighten the screws on the use of personal funds to support the electoral drives of political dynasties.
The House of Representatives should not shirk from its duty to act on the impeachment. The Senate should not abdicate its role of conducting a trial should the articles of impeachment reach it. All this talk of “lack of time” is meant to preserve the bankrupt status quo of corruption and impunity.
“The repeated practice by the Philippine National Police (PNP) of filing baseless, scattergun cases against rally participants—many of whom were peacefully exercising their rights to free speech and assembly—is a blatant violation of democratic principles.”
Ang mga ganitong eksena ay dapat magsilbing paalala na kailangan nating kumilos para sa pagbabago—isang pagbabago na magmumula sa tunay na malasakit at hustisya para sa lahat.
The problem is bigger than the scene. It is linked with private property of a commercial place. In capitalism, private property is legal. The private property becomes more important since it is a commercial place.
Despite his vow to reduce the price of rice to P20 a kilo, Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr succeeded in two things–skyrocketing rice imports to 4.7 million metric tons (MMT) and raising prices to more than P60 a kilo–proving that despite acting as agriculture secretary, Marcos Jr. failed miserably to address the major problems of the rice industry.
The INC talking about peace and nothing about justice for taxpayers, and zilch about holding Sara’s feet to the fire. In other words, the INC is giving Sara a pass while riding on the willy-nilly declaration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. that the country would not benefit from Sara’s impeachment.
In the March 2024 survey, self-rated poverty was already a terrible 46%, then skyrocketed to 58% in June, moved a tad higher to 59% in September and then surged during the Christmas season to 63%. True to the prediction of critics, the Duterte and Marcos Jr. regimes worsened the economy, with the record-breaking debt of Duterte becoming an albatross around Marcos Jr.’s neck.
Edgar Matobato’s recent interview with Hanna Beech of the New York Times revealed very disturbing detail—how he and his Davao Death Squad (DDS) made sashimi and barbecue out of the extremities of a newly-murdered victim, a fine “finger food” to accompany cheap liquor in one of Davao City’s killing fields.
