May 10, 2010 came and passed and all the doomsday scenarios projected did not happen. Sure, there were glitches and problems during the conduct of the local and national elections but the worst and much-feared scenarios failed to materialize. The elections were relatively peaceful. There was no general failure of election, the expected implosion did [...]

THE camp of Manny Villar must be so desperate they are throwing everything and everything to consistent presidential front-runner Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, the sink and toilet bowl included. As Election Day nears, the campaign is getting dirtier and dirtier with the Nationalista Party (NP) leading the charge in the mud-throwing game. This desperation [...]

RELEASE the Krakens!” thundered President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (PGMA). Immediately a devilish grin appeared on the face of Acting (in)Justice Secretary Alberto Agra, who in an instant was only too eager and happy to comply with his master’s order. In the late hour of Friday, just as the nation was about to retire for a weekend, [...]

THE agony of Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. continues as his party the Lakas-Kampi-CMD continues to untangle. It is in disarray and its disintegration is inevitable. It is only a matter of time, short time for the ruling party to vaporize as the election is nearing its climax.
Lakas-Kampi-CMD’s unraveling began when the Arroyos led by the [...]

QUO vadis Gibo? This is the question that haunts the candidacy of Lakas-Kampi-CMD bet Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. after it was hit by a major disaster with the revelation of calls made by the First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo to influential Lakas-Kampi-CMD governors to support Manny Villar instead of him. The report confirmed the [...]

MIDWAY into the campaign for the 2010 election, recent survey results reveal the trend in the political landscape. The Social Weather Station (SWS) released the result of its survey conducted from March 19–22, 2010. In the presidential race, Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is pulling away from his nearest rival Senator Manny Villar with a [...]

IN the past weeks, several events unfold that are portent of the things to come in the next months. These events are dangerous omens for the Filipino people. They reveal a pattern that could put into peril democracy and the rule of law in this country.
The first of these dangerous omens was the appointment of [...]

The highly irregular decision of the Supreme Court on the question of whether President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (PGMA) can appoint the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Chief Justice Reynato Puno retires on May 17, 2010 is both shocking and disturbing. It sent chill down the spine of Filipinos as the sinister plan of [...]

IN the last sixty decades, national democrats had been preaching that there are three basic problems that ail Philippine society. These are imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. According to the national democratic movement, the three isms are the culprits why Philippines remains backward and underdeveloped, that condemned the vast majority of Filipinos to poverty.
Imperialism, according [...]

DURING the 24th anniversary celebration of the People Power revolt in EDSA in 1986 President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (PGMA) complained the glory of EDSA I is gone. Attending the rite for the first time in many years, the President claimed EDSA I deteriorated into partisan politics.
“The Philippines has come a long way since 1986. We [...]