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Feb 7, 2026

Commemorating the Battle for the Liberation of Manila

Eighty one years ago, on February 3, 1945, the Battle for the Liberation of Manila began. It was the only urban battle of the Pacific War and it raged for one month, ending on March 3, 1945… The battle remains controversial due to the excessive loss of civilian life as well as the destruction it caused. It made Manila the second most devastated Allied capital city after Warsaw in Poland during the Second World War.Some of the specific controversial issues surrounding the battle are: Was it a necessary battle? Could the city have been bypassed to save the residents from the horrors of urban fighting and massacres? Was the use of artillery by the Americans done in an indiscriminate manner?

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Commemorating the Battle for the Liberation of Manila
Feb 5, 2026

Let the Law do the Talking

The National Maritime Council bears particular responsibility...A multi-agency approach is necessary, but convergence without leadership is fragmentation. Public messaging by maritime and security agencies must reinforce a coherent diplomatic line, not generate parallel narratives that complicate it.

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Let the Law do the Talking
Feb 2, 2026

A ruling that reshapes the road to 2028

In the end, the question is not merely whether Sara Duterte can run in 2028. It is whether the country is prepared to confront the tension between political power and legal accountability, and what it means when the two collide long before a single vote is cast.

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A ruling that reshapes the road to 2028
Feb 1, 2026

DH/OFW Forever: Rinse and Repeat

Endaya notes that nothing has really changed: The situation repeats itself…While technology has changed from prerecorded messages in cassette tapes to today’s instantaneous text messages and video calls through smartphones, the materialism continues. OFWs shower their children with expensive goods like Nike shoes to make up for their absence; the children have lost affection and nurturance.

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DH/OFW Forever: Rinse and Repeat
Jan 24, 2026

Celebrating the Filipino Spirit in Art Deco

Retaining its Filipino spirit, Philippine Art Deco is characterized with “an eclectic and hybrid interpretation” of traditional motifs integrated with the international style of Art Deco. Using stylized tropical flora such as bamboo, coconut tree, mangoes, bananas, sampaguita, as well as Mindanao’s okir designs, capiz shells, and indigenous textile patterns provided a rich overlay of forms and textures.

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Celebrating the Filipino Spirit in Art Deco
Jan 23, 2026

Trillanes and Silent Majority group complaint before Ombudsman vs Sara Duterte cites Madriaga affidavit

Madriaga, in a notarized affidavit dated Nov. 29, 2025 claimed that Col. Raymund Dante Lachica, security chief at the OVP, made him deliver large sums of money taken from Duterte’s confidential funds at the OVP and the DepEd to several persons “thus confirming how Respondent Duterte and her co-respondents converted the subject confidential funds to their own personal use, contrary to the actual purposes for which the same was earmarked and/or purportedly disbursed.”

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Trillanes and Silent Majority group complaint before Ombudsman vs Sara Duterte cites Madriaga affidavit