BY OPTING TO forget EDSA II on its seventh anniversary, “in keeping with the President’s wish”, Malacañang spotlighted President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s admission of her betrayal of herself and of the quest of EDSA entrusted to her by the people who elevated her to power.
Her “wish to heal the wounds of EDSA” as the reason for the [...]

TABAWAN (officially, Likud Tabawan) is an island barangay, one of the 31 barangays of South Ubian, municipality of Tawi-Tawi close to Sabah. Tawi-Tawi has ten municipalities some of them island groups and 203 barangays.
As of the 1995 census, Tawi-Tawi had a population of 250,718. Bongao, the capital town and the biggest, had 46,672.  Turtle Islands, the [...]

WHILE THE peace negotiation between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front remains suspended and President Macapagal-Arroyo is proposing to have the Constitution amended to specifically provide for The creation of a Bangsamoro Federal State, hawks are hovering.  They alarm the doves.
Last January 5, the Bangsamoro Solidarity Alliance of Zamboanga City hosted a [...]

THE “best-case scenario” to solve the Moro rebellion must have proven not to be the “best” after all. The Palace is changing tack. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will now “ask Congress to amend the Constitution to allow the creation of a Muslim federal region in the south,”,the  Philippine Daily Inquirer reported (INQUIRER.net, January 10).
   
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WILL DESTABILIZATION plots continue to distract the Arroyo government in 2008? Four top security officials believed they will but are certain to fail. (INQUIRER.net, January 4).
“Those people who seek to divide the country to destabilize the nation are not sleeping.  They are meeting.  They are talking, they are planning a new year full of fireworks [...]