VERA Files
Millions, scammed or otherwise, are probably ecstatic about the Second Coming of Ferdinand Marcos – Senior or Junior. They helped put a Marcos back in Malacañang; will the Marcos heirs reward their faith?
Hopes for joint oil and gas exploration between the Philippines and China, especially in the disputed Recto (Reed) Bank, have been shattered with the termination of bilateral talks, leaving it […]
Human rights groups welcomed on Saturday the move of International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan for the continuation of the investigation into the Philippine drug war after the Duterte […]
(First of two parts) At the height of the 2016 presidential race, then-mayor Rodrigo Duterte of Davao City said his only reason for running against big names in Philippine politics was to rid the country of illegal drugs and corruption in three to six months.
Amidst the preparations for the June 30 inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr as the 17th president of the Philippines, I’m still dreadfully in awe of the thoroughness of the brainwashing operations that the Marcos family undertook to achieve their rehabilitation in less than four decades.
The proportion of Filipinos who say they “can trust most news most of the time” has
gone up to 37% this year amid a surge of COVID-19 cases around the time the survey
was conducted.
Sen. Imee Marcos claimed that China has not even once attempted to take over the Philippines “in any way.” This lacks important context.
The office of incoming President Ferdinand ” Bongbong” Marcos Jr. announced that he is thinking of attending the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September in New York.
Imee Marcos trolled. ANC anchor Karen Davila was never ever heard to have said on record that she would leave the Philippines if a Marcos becomes president. Openly and without hesitancy before a national television audience, Imee was purveyor of fake news.
In his insightful piece in Time Magazine on the election as president of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the ousted dictator, scholar Jonathan Ong said: “To fight back, progressive leaders should advance their own counter-narrative and persuasive vision. But first, they must acknowledge their failure to listen.”