Bashing Grace Poe
It’s slash-and-burn time. Filing for candidacy doesn’t happen until October, but politicians and their supporters are now busy prettifying their images or attacking perceived rivals. Vice President...
View ArticleThese Arroyo terror tactics survive in the time of Aquino
Jovito Palparan, known as the butcher of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo simpered as she hailed as “hero” an officer called “the butcher” for his long...
View ArticleWhen should journalists stand aside from coverage?
I’ve seen some comments re Tunying and Gerry, dzMM’s popular anchors, inhibiting themselves from commenting on the Iglesia ni Cristo mess. READ various INC reports, starting with this. I think it’s the...
View ArticleRemember the word, “Salvage”? Lumad ‘goddess’ gives “rescue” a different spin
A profile image on Rep. Nancy Catamco’s page North Cotabato 2nd district Rep. Nancy Catamco calls herself a “Diwata” — a goddess — of Mindanao’s lumad peoples. On Facebook, her press releases...
View ArticleFiery chieftain takes down Catamco
Regal Chieftain to Lumad “goddess”: NEVER SPEAK TO US AGAIN!In Davao City, it’s called the Bai Bibi takedown. Others call it The Diwata’s Comeuppance. Bai Bibiyaon Ligkayan Bigkay is no ordinary Lumad....
View ArticleFans and missing heroes I– OFWs (SONA 2015)
President Benigno Aquino III’s use of real people in his last State of the Nation Address (SONA) was a good thing. President Beningo Aquino III delivers his last State of the Nation Address (SONA)....
View ArticleFans & Missing Heroes 2 #Fallen44
Who’s Joe America? Who cares? President Benigno Aquino, in his last State of the Nation Address (SONA), singled out a blogger named Joe America. The President loves reading praise prose like most...
View ArticleLumad want Catamco out of House IP body
The screeching, screaming, crying Diwata from North Cotabato is discovering that the law on diminishing returns covers oppression. Church, rights, and indigenous peoples groups at the gates of the...
View ArticleGRACE QUOTES MAR’S LOLO ON FOUNDLINGS AND CITIZENSHIP
Senator Grace Poe has always insisted she has documents to prove she is a Filipino citizen qualified for the Presidency and, of course, the position she now occupies. However, she says those documents...
View ArticleSpecial Mission, Dirty Tricks
“The truth conquers!” That gleeful statement comes from Harold Cabunoc, the Army lieutenant colonel on a special mission to convince the public that lumad in a Davao church sanctuary and their...
View ArticleCan’t wait for the Congress Lumad show
North Cotabato Representative Nancy Catamco wants a full-blown, multi-committee probe into the July 23 Haran botched rescue. That’s a good thing, a very, very good thing. In a privilege speech Monday...
View ArticleElegy for Freedom of Information Law
When the Right to Know Right Now (R2KRN) coalition proclaimed the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill dead in the 16th Congress, I wondered if the declaration was premature. Could renewed clamour prod...
View ArticleThe INC readies to rumble
Someone called some friends to a “VERY URGENT” meeting over lunch today. The big news, shared by these excited folks, was supposedly about the beginning of the end of President Benigno Aquino III. And...
View ArticlePandering to the INC
Let’s get this straight. Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) members have a right to protest. They have the right to voice out their grievances. If they want to mobilize a million people, they’re welcome to that....
View ArticleGRACE POE and how NOT to damage control (UPDATE on who did it)
UPDATE: A a citizen volunteer for Sen. Poe has owned up on the error of that video. Leon Flores, former chair of the National Youth Commission (NYC), co-convenor of the Good Governance Pilipinas...
View ArticleThey’re killing teachers and children, Mr. President
Dear President Aquino, Malacanang is a long way off from Mindanao’s verdant, rugged mountains. So maybe the news hasn’t reached you yet. I’m presuming it hasn’t. It’s hard to believe a man who still...
View ArticleCHILDREN OF THE STORM: WHY THEY ARE HUNTED
We know Ben. He plays a mean guitar. We know Apad and his poetry of rage. We know JR. We know Angelique. And Precy, the widow. We met them last year, talked with them, ate with them, watched some crazy...
View ArticleLumad children will not forget
They say: “You teach children to be rebels”. No, sirs, YOU teach children to be rebels. You teach them when you kill their parents and teachers, and torch the cooperatives that provide their food. You...
View ArticleWalden Bello: ‘Roxas a Better Choice than Poe and Binay? Are You Kidding?’
(*Almost missed this. Walden Bello sent this “response to a good friend’s justification of her support for Roxas in the 2016 elections.” He says “Omega” is a pseudonym of an organization they both...
View ArticleUNHCR: Lumad need presence of NGOs, religious groups
(First of 3 parts) “Inaccurate depiction” of the violence and killings in Mindanao lumad communities prevents actions to find, apprehend and prosecute perpetrators of human rights violations, according...
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