The Arroyo government seems to have blundered in handling Rodolfo Lozada Jr. from the day the Senate summoned him to testify in a hearing on the NBN-ZTE deal. But the Macapagal-Arroyo administration’s actions concerning Lozada were done with due consideration of the probable consequences to the government. It was all part of the queen’s gambit.…
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Major Surgery
I am aghast that these senators whom we knew at the U.P. years ago are part of the regime’s counteroffensive to save a morally bankrupt leadership that has long deserved to be banished and replaced. But from the looks of it the whole political system may well undergo major surgery if not interment. BY ELMER A.…
Governance by Arrogance
Next to the Marcos dictatorship, the Arroyo presidency will likely go down in history as the government most vilified apparently due to its use of coercion and intimidation to silence its critics and its presumed enemies. BY THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE Posted by Bulatlat ANALYSIS Vol. VIII, No. 2, February 10-16, 2008…