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Three more years to go
By Tita C. Valderama
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Jul 21, 2025
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How will the remaining three years be positively different for a majority of Filipinos struggling to cope not only with relentlessly rising prices but also with incompetent leadership at various levels of public service?

Duterte propagandists eating up the dead: The worst of political discourse
By Katrina Stuart Santiago
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Jul 17, 2025
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What might in fact be truly controversial is the fact that we have a vice president drawing far-fetched connections in the way her father did to justify his slapshod leadership, and a presidential sister and senator demanding that government violate the Tantocos’ right to privacy to feed the monster that is Duterte propaganda.

Who were the godparents of E-sabong?
By Antonio J. Montalvan II
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Jul 16, 2025
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Rodrigo Duterte turned government into one national gambling machinery by making E-sabong a state-enabled enterprise. By 2021, the system spanned 14 regions of the country.
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