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EcuVoice also said they “condemn the disrespect shown by the presidential spokesperson to the UN Special Rapporteur in his attempt to rebuff her observations.”

Was all of President Duterte’skicking and cursing about the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) in February – to borrow from the Bard –really just all bluster, “told by an idiot/ full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing”?

All that officials who are being paid by Filipino to manage the country can say about last Monday’s disastrous General Community Quarantine, when thousands were left stranded waiting for public transport that never came was “konting pasensiya.”

​It took Covid-19 to enable Agnes Callamard, United Nations special rapporteur on Extrajudicial Summary or Arbitrary Execution, to speak to a gathering of Filipinos and people who care about the situation in the Philippines.

In its running territorial tiff with China over the Natuna islands, Indonesia had just lobbed a diplomatic bombshell.

Someone who has touched our lives in ways that she was not even conscious about it, passed away last week.

Red-baiting of government critics has been the convenient cover-up weapon of an incompetent administration.

It took the much-dreaded Covid-19 to give the environment a break from Man’s abuses.

Let’s defy the shutdown order of Duterte and his henchmen of ABS-CBN by continuing to watch ABS-CBN news and other programs through any of the following platforms

The Duterte government must be desperate. There’s a global condemnation of its order to close down ABS-CBN.

Let’s remember these names: Gamaliel A. Cordoba, Commissioner; Edgardo V. Cabarios, Deputy Commissioner; Delilah F. Deles, Deputy Commissioner.

In the almost four years of the Duterte administration, President Duterte many times floated the idea of declaring martial law.