Editorial

THERE is a ‘specter’ that would be hounding the 2022 national elections. And it would not be the likely return to Malacañang of another ‘Marcos’—former senator Ferdinand…
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“TO THE victor,” according to Adolf Hitler, “belongs the right to write history.” And for 35 years now, or from 1986, when Pres. Ferdinand Marcos was illegally ousted from power, our…
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THE ridiculously funny—yet sickening—report that greeted the country’s journalism profession last week was the announcement that Maria Ressa, founder of online news site, ‘Rappler,’…
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WITH the start of the filing of the certificate of candidacy for all elective positions last October 1, 2021, the country, pandemic or not, is to be entertained anew by the longest…
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IN WHAT could be an ironic twist of fate, Congress on September 21, 2021, the day Pres. Ferdinand Marcos placed the entire country under martial law in 1972 to protect the State from…
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IN A move that can only be described as unprecedented and truly historic in the annals of human civilization, the Communist Party of China, under Pres. Xi Jin Ping, announced another…
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SINCE the establishment of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in 2019 by Pres. Duterte, it has, without a doubt, made great strides in weakening…
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FOR the nth time, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced it would conduct an “investigation” on the successful anti-terrorist operation launched by the Philippine Army’s 8th…
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“FROM the sublime to the ridiculous, there is but one step,” is a phrase that has been attributed to the great Napoleon Bonaparte, although its real authorship is still very much…
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WRITING to his friends in Rome in 47 BC to describe his quick triumph over King Pharnaces II of Pontus, Julius Caesar said, ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’— ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ – three…
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