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Duterte drug war to face a Truth Commission
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By Antonio J. Montalvan II
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May 27, 2026
Victims’ suffering is central and foundational to a truth commission, serving in fact as the core justification for its existence and the primary metric of its success.
The 3 times that Pia Cayetano made us cry
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By Antonio J. Montalvan II
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May 25, 2026
The audacity to ask for our tears when she shed not even a single teardrop for the thousands of voiceless Filipinos destroyed by state bullets in the bloody carnage of her madman Rasputin.
Duterte’s snub of hearings a factor in ICC’s decision to keep him detained
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By Ellen Tordesillas
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May 23, 2026
The decision of former president Rodrigo Duterte not to attend the confirmation hearings in his case of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Haque, Netherlands was a major factor in the May 22 decision of the Trial Chamber III to deny his request for interim release and for him to continue in detention at Scheveningen prison.
ICC: No incident of Duterte’s fall in last 30 days
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By Ellen Tordesillas
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May 21, 2026
“There has not been any fall recorded in the last thirty days.”That’s the report of Marc Dubuisson, director of the Division of Judicial Services of the International Criminal Court, on behalf of Registrar Osvaldo Zavala Giler. It was dated May 20, referring to the documentation of the situation of former president Rodrigo Duterte at his detention cell in Scheveningen Prison in The Hague, Netherlands.
‘Shit happens’* at the Senate
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By Bullit Marquez
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May 18, 2026
May 11, 2026 will always be remembered as the day the venerable institution went down to the pits, something one never imagined in the country’s political history.
FACT CHECK: Sara Duterte did NOT threaten to throw Trillanes into the WPS
Viral posts claiming Vice President Sara Duterte threatened to throw former senator Antonio Trillanes IV into the West Philippine Sea are fabricated.
Duterte won’t attend first status conference at ICC
The status conference will tackle administrative matters related to the trial against Duterte, including the date to start trial, use of anticipated evidence, languages to be used during proceedings, victims’ participation, and the submission of trial briefs.
Taking back the WPS, one mission at a time
Talk is cheap. We should have learned that lesson yesterday. Our verbosity alone will not drive China’s ships away from our exclusive economic zone. Words must be backed up by a coherent strategy and determined responses that imposes costs on them. Recovering control of our waters, after it was given up by the Duterte administration before, will require a long, arduous and incremental campaign, one island at a time, one feature at a time, one mission at a time.
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Duterte replaces Kaufman as counsel, new lawyer’s identity withheld
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ICC update: Haynes opposes prosecution Nov. 30 trial start proposal, seeks new test on Duterte’s fitness for trial
by Ellen Tordesillas
Peter Haynes is Duterte’s new ICC lawyer
by Ellen Tordesillas
Copy of the ICC warrant of arrest for Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa
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Vida for life and lust for the painted images
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Nelfa Querubin: Prints and ceramics
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Six artists: Always in the heart, my homeland
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Theater’s truth-telling power
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Elections
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FACT CHECK: ‘Unanimous’ PNP, AFP vote for pro-Duterte senators NEEDS CONTEXT
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FACT SHEET: From Manila to The Hague and back to Davao: Can Duterte swing it?
by Psalm Mishael Taruc
The 2025 Party-List election winners
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by Mariejo Ramos
Can wind power grow without harming the watershed?
by Gina Dean and Lourence Mae Alkuino
How Sorsogon’s crab farmers restore mangroves, strengthen livelihood and adapt to a changing coastline
by Ma. April Mier-Manjares
South China Sea
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