In his farewell speech on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama tried to project confidence in America’s future, while saying economic inequality, racism, and closed-mindedness threaten national unity. He pledged to support his successor, Donald Trump, in face of the...
Elvis Presley faked his own death in 1977, and at the ripe old age of 81 still lives today as a grounds keeper in Graceland, the home he purchased in Memphis, Tennessee at the height of his film, music and television career in 1957. The military-industrial complex...
President Duterte enters the second half of his first year in office unrelentingly pursuing his bloody war on illegal drugs, which during the electoral campaign he had promised to complete in six months. The fulfillment of another campaign promise has now been...
The advent of every new year inevitably brings with it not only the cheery predictions of hacks who claim to have the power to foretell what will happen in the next 12 months by telling the world which celebrity will be sleeping with whom or how the economy will...
Ni TONY BORINAGA ng ating binihag na bayan kung gabi, nakikita'y tanging kinang ng bituin at ganda ng asul na buwan sa umaga, pag-asa ang hatid ng pagdungaw ng araw. lagi sa kanilang utak umiinog ang romansahan, ang walang katapusang tamis at pait ng kalibugan:...
Kaya mo bang magsuot ng pantalon with no hands? Bago mo sabihing hindi, panoorin mo muna ang Episode 3 ng Serious Na: hinggil sa Independent Foreign Policy.
Perish the thought! You’re playing a perilous game!! Verily that is the singular message addressed to both President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and Donald J. Trump, the incoming president of the United States, regarding their recent statements that beclouded the holiday...
After two years, it was only in July when Flores and other farmers were allowed to again till their farm lots, a part of the long-running struggle of farm workers in Hacienda Luisita.
The Communist Party of the Philippines in Southern Tagalog celebrates the party's 48th anniversary.
Eight out of 10 Filipinos, a Dec. 17 Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey has found, fear that they or someone they know could be a victim of extrajudicial killings or EJKs. As Senator Grace Poe has observed, the fear is understandable in view of the epidemic of...
At the onset of the Christmas and New Year holidays, probably the gladdest and most welcome news, particularly for poor families, is that for at least 1.4 million students in 114 state universities and colleges (SUCs) across the nation, tuition will be free in...
Then-candidate Rodrigo Duterte described himself as a “socialist” and a “leftist” during the May 2016 campaign. He hasn’t made the same claim since, and, despite his appointment of two presumed leftists to the Cabinet, there isn’t a shadow of socialist thought or...
President Duterte had it coming. Yes, Virginia, in a country rife with continuing human rights violations, the annual International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10 is invariably marked with protests and mass demonstrations. Public anger over the secret burial of the...
TIME magazine dubbed him “the Punisher” for allegedly organizing the death-squads that eliminated drug dealers and petty criminals via “extra-judicial killings” (EJK).
Maria Kristina Sergio’s travel records revealed that she went abroad five times in 2008, 14 times in 2009, nine times in 2010 and twice in 2011.
"The release of political prisoners cannot be reduced to a simple act of goodwill that the GRP can opt to take or not.”
After six years of being fenced off from their land, the agrarian reform beneficiaries of Tagum City could wait no more.
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