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[EDITORIAL] #AnimatED: Umamin na si Duterte. Uwian na ba?
A friend asked, "Umamin na si Duterte. Uwian na ba?" (Duterte has admitted to extrajudicial killings. Is it over?)Rewind to last Thursday, September 27. President Rodrigo Duterte was, as usual, railing...
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[OPINION] The hunt for ‘Red October’
In 1984, Tom Clancy wrote a best-selling novel titled, The Hunt for Red October about a Russian naval captain’s defection to the United States, bringing with him Russia’s most advanced nuclear-armed...
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Basagan ng Trip with Leloy Claudio: Dictatorship vs democracy
MANILA, Philippines – Do you think the Philippines should be under a dictatorship? Do you believe that Martial Law was a golden age for our country?In this episode of Basagan ng Trip, Leloy Claudio...
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[ANALYSIS] Sieg Heil deja vu? Understanding the extreme right's global rise
Just a few years ago, the idea that the extreme right would come to power in what were regarded as stable liberal democracies would have been dismissed not only by liberals but by the progressives....
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[OPINION] Food for thought: Hungry for change
"I do not politicize food," I read from the social media status of a friend. Across platforms, I’ve seen several people echo this sentiment, which baffles me truly. I could not imagine saying that to...
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Why are petroleum products so expensive again?
It seems our inflation woes are far from over. Figure 1 shows that Brent Crude, a global benchmark of oil prices, has reached $80 per barrel, the highest in almost 4 years. In recent days, it climbed...
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[ANALYSIS] Stop blaming devolution for health sector failures
On the basis of the Local Government Code of 1991, the Philippines has developed what is called a devolved health system.Devolution is a form of "administrative decentralization" wherein functions such...
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[ANALYSIS] At stake in Trillanes amnesty case
Proclamation No. 75 was issued by former president Noynoy Aquino granting amnesty to active and former military personnel who participated in the Oakwood mutiny, the Marines standoff and the Peninsula...
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[OPINION] Spying is back
And so it is back to spying on schools for the military, and it appears that it's UP and PUP that are the primary targets of its intelligence gathering.As expected the military immediately went into...
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[EDITORIAL] #AnimatED: Kung ipagpipilitang radikal ang mga millennial
Mukhang nasasayang ang P2.5 bilyong confidential at intelligence fund ni Presidente Rodrigo Duterte sa kathang-isip. Ayon sa budget department, napupunta ang limpak-limpak na pera sa kampanya laban sa...
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[OPINION] Are all government employees not allowed to campaign?
Facebook users have recently been sharing a post from 2016 with a very catchy title: “Government employees reminded: you can’t campaign for candidates, even in FB.”It's accompanied by a stern warning...
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[OPINION] Too much beer
The military never learns. These days, whenever it warns of an impending communist plot to overthrow the government, most sane people wonder why the administration is feeling insecure.Nowadays it may...
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[OPINION] Societal transformation: The road to 1.5°C target for PH
There is no more debate that climate change is real. From the record-breaking heat waves across Europe and South Korea, to super typhoons raging from the United States to Japan, the year 2018 is a...
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[ANALYSIS] Upper-middle income Philippines by 2019: How true?
Various government officials have been trumpeting – with increasing frequency – that the Philippines is set to join the ranks of “upper-middle income” countries by 2019.One might be forgiven for...
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[ANALYSIS] Leila de Lima and the Nobel Peace Prize
On October 5, 2018, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a 5-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway, awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to campaigners against rape in warfare, Nadia Murad...
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Basagan ng Trip with Leloy Claudio: Heroism in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines – Who is your hero? Can you spot and accept your hero's flaws?In this episode of Basagan ng Trip, Leloy Claudio and history teacher Xiao Chua discuss the concept of heroism in the...
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[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] Making our own shameful history
In the latter half of this generation, we as a people professing to be a nation have been making shameful history. Not that we have not made enough of it; the greater spectacle is not that we have been...
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[OPINION] A decade of disruption comes home to roost
Over the last decade, we have learned that a serious banking failure with risky balance sheets can feed into a major international financial crisis. That, in turn, is big enough to cause an economic...
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[OPINION] Trillanes amnesty is valid
Makati Judge Elmo Alameda rejected Senator Trillanes’ secondary evidence showing that he had actually filed an amnesty application. The judge wanted nothing less than his receiving copy of such...
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[OPINYON] Yogyakarta Diaries: Pero binabagabag pa rin ako ng komedya sa...
Habang isinusulat ko ito, nasa ikaanim na araw na ako ng isang linggong pagbisita dito sa Indonesia. Nasa loob ako ng isang luma pero maayos pa ring hotel katabi ng unibersidad kung saan ako dumalo ng...
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