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Aug 12, 2025

Senator-judges in the ‘Napolist’

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.

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Senator-judges in the ‘Napolist’
Aug 11, 2025

Moving forward from a botched impeachment trial

The Ombudsman can also impose the penalty of perpetual disqualification from holding public office as a direct penalty for certain violations, like those under the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, or as an accessory to other administrative penalties, such as dismissal from service, particularly for grave offenses like dishonesty.

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Moving forward from a botched impeachment trial
Aug 2, 2025

IBON BirdTalk Midyear 2025: More poor and hungry Filipinos

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

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IBON BirdTalk Midyear 2025: More poor and hungry Filipinos
Jul 30, 2025

The umbrella boy Chief Justice

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.

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The umbrella boy Chief Justice
Jul 28, 2025

Heed the urgent call for budget reform

In the first three years of the Marcos presidency, cuts made by Congress in the annual budget program surpassed the P1-trillion mark, mostly from strategic transport, infrastructure and agri-based investments, and shifted to graft-prone projects like flood control, drainage systems and other local projects.

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Heed the urgent call for budget reform
Jul 22, 2025

Secret in the Senate: The ghastly budget insertions of Chiz Escudero

The sole political context: Chiz Escudero wants to be the next Senate president of the 20th Senate. But his ambition does not cost a free lunch. He must win his way by means of projects not only to his fellow senator allies, but for himself as well. In addition, nothing can stop him as well from using these insertions to buy their acquittal votes for Sara Duterte. Get the equation?

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Secret in the Senate: The ghastly budget insertions of Chiz Escudero