We must oppose the US-Israel war on Iran and join the growing global calls for an immediate cessation of military operations in West Asia for the sake of ordinary Iranians and our own interests, including those of our OFWs.
Legal scholars find it strange why Kaufman still advances facile legal points in his presentation. Kaufman has helped the prosecution in no small measure.
The latest story churned out about the “distribution” of P805-billiion in cash to a cast of “grafters” and other people hated viscerally by Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio is, for all intents and purposes, an insult to the “noble” profession of truth fabrication.
This article advances four interconnected arguments as a counterpoint to those who insist, on moral grounds, that Iran must be condemned rather than defended.
For observers in Mindanao — the geopolitical heartland of the former president — the proceedings laid bare the deep scars left by the drug war and ignited fierce local debate over accountability, impunity, and the pursuit of justice.
Both Sara and Bong Go have no redeeming social value to the people. Both belong to a graft-ridden culture that has made the national budget an annual opportunity for looting.
Sakada was a strong denunciation of an exploitative system that hewed strongly to institutionalize the abuses of human rights, basic economic rights, muzzle people’s minds and detain their hearts, and prevent them for questioning the machinery that made both the dictatorship and the hacienda system maintain their stranglehold.
To set things alright, the republic should set a high bar for candidates, and the first line of people’s defense against psychotics, sociopaths and plunderous candidates.
So, squandering P612.5-million wasn’t plunder, the billions in useless flood control projects in Davao City wasn’t corruption. Sara’s campaign is the longest in history, and her early salvo for the 2028 presidential run is nothing but a damp squib.
The Duterte gofer is now trying to wiggle his way out of the gordian knot that ties Go and Duterte, along with the perpetual Senate AWOL Ronald de la Rosa, by asking “why on earth was I ever dragged into this mess?”
