The present warrants of Judge Fuentes signify one thing – it is an attempt of the Dutertes to preempt the ICC trial even before Lascañas could testify. The Lascañas testimony is first-person and eyewitness that can easily pin down Duterte to a lifetime prison sentence. Lascañas is now safe and protected in The Hague. The arrest warrants will not intimidate him at all.
Besides de Lima, no figureheads have emerged, perhaps giving further credence to the AFP’s claim that they are now dealing largely with NPA “stragglers” and “remnants,” whom committed soldiers are pursuing with all their might. If Asia’s longest-running communist insurgency does end under Marcos Jr.’s watch, that victory will not come after the peaceful surrender of (dead) rebel leaders—it will be drenched in blood.
The decision in the League of Cities case saw four different reversals by the Supreme Court from the first ruling in 2008 until the final decision in 2011. None of the decisions were decided on unanimously.
In 2016, COA bared another list after investigating pork barrel funds allocated from 2007 to 2009 using the same modus operandi of channeling to fake NGOs. Among the legislators involved were Sen. Joel Villanueva and Rodante Marcoleta who by 2016 was representing SAGIP party list. Today, almost ten years later, Marcoleta and Villanueva have never been fully prosecuted because of the power of their influence. If they were truly guilty of plundering public money, they are scot-free when they should be behind bars.
A recent Renacimiento Manila post by Diego Torres revisits several areas in Manila where waterways have disappeared by comparing maps of 1766, 1894, 1907, and 1915 with current satellite imagery.
A clip supposedly showing VP Sara Duterte revealing a "financial investment" that the administration is hiding from the public is fake.
Three years into Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration, two questions hang in the air: How is the Philippine economy faring and how are Filipinos surviving? At the recent IBON BirdTalk Midyear 2025, IBON executive director Sonny Africa said there are more poor and hungry Filipinos despite the accomplishments Marcos enumerated in his 2024 State of the Nation Address
The Ortigas Foundation Library presents an exhibit titled Early Philippine Picture Postcards 1900-1930s until August 10, 2025. Its address: 2nd Floor, McKinley Parking Bldg., Greenhills, San Juan.
People saw the photo of Chief Justice Enrique M. Fernando holding an umbrella for Imelda Marcos not as chivalry but his final act of legitimizing the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.Listen and take heed, civil libertarian and environmental warrior Marvic Leonen. This too may become your fate one day.
Ang kabuuan ng budget insertions ni Escudero na mukhang nagbabalatkayong pandarambong — P142,717,586,000.Dapat nating ilantad ang engrandeng sikreto ni Escudero na ginagawang tanga ang bawat mamamayang Pilipino.
