MADNESS. Pure madness. This best describes the action of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (PGMA) in granting executive clemency for convicted murderer Claudio Teehankee Jr. The manner it was done best illustrates the eeriness of the act, executed at midnight on Friday last week.
Fourteen years ago, Claudio Teehankee Jr. was found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Maureen Hultman, […]

IT WAS an unprecedented and historic move. Not since 1929 has anyone seen something like this. Democratic senator Chris Doodd, chair of the Senate banking committee was quoted as saying the United States “may be days away from complete meltdown of our financial system.” To avert economic cataclysm, the Bush administration announced a US$700-billion financial […]

AFTER 40 days, the Supreme Court rendered a decision on the scandal involving justices of the Court of Appeals (CA). The scandal is one of the lowest points in the history of Philippine judiciary as it threatens to destroy its integrity and the credibility of the courts.
The CA scandal is an offshoot of the Meralco […]

REGARDLESS of the outcome, the result of the US election this year is bound to make history one way or the other. The Democrats, riding on widespread dissatisfaction and unpopularity of incumbent Republican President George W. Bush Jr., hope to put the first black occupant in the White House. Republicans countered by giving […]

CALLS for peace is drowned with the sound of blazing guns as the renewed war in Mindanao takes a heavy toll on its people, economy and probably its future. Even as both the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) publicly declared they want peace, a full scale offensive is under way to make […]

THE controversial Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Arroyo regime and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is supposed to be the bearer of peace. As trumpeted by the Arroyo regime it is the key to lasting peace in Mindanao. But instead of peace, the MOA has become the instrument of war. […]

PLACING the Filipino people in a perpetual state of anger is the hallmark of the regime of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (PGMA). Aside from raiding the national coffers, inflicting national irritation is one of its expertise. The latest sadistic move of the administration is the memorandum of agreement (MOA) it initialed with the Moro National Islamic […]

BY tradition, the State of the Nation Address (SONA) is an occasion where the President fires up the nation, inspires the people and sets national direction. Chief executives usually use the event to lay down before the people the national agenda and what they can expect from the governing administration.
The delivery of the Sona is […]

THE most unpopular president of all time is President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s (PGMA) official tag in the annals of Philippine history. The second quarter survey this year of the Social Weather Station (SWS) reveals dissatisfaction with the President hit a record breaking negative 38 percent, the lowest a leader got in the post-dictatorship era.
In the said […]

THE favorite adage among non-government and development workers is, “Give man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.” Guided by these wise words, those who work for the marginalized sector opted to teach the people how to fish […]