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Poll rigging probes take a heavy toll by Iloilo Views on Aug 4, 2011Investigations into cheating allegations in two national elections in the space of three years—the 2004 presidential polls and the 2007 congressional and senatorial elections—have taken a heavy toll on the integrity of the Philippine electoral s...
A test for the new ombudsman by Iloilo Views on Aug 2, 2011THE SIXTH plunder case against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was lodged at the Office of the Ombudsman on July 26, hot on the heels of the appointment the day before of a new ombudsman, retired Supreme Court Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales...
DAVAO CITY COUNCIL TOLD TO DECLARE PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER CALUMNISTS AMANDO DORONILA, PATRICIA EVANGELISTA AS PERSONA NON GRATA by durianburgdavao on Jul 20, 2011EDITORIAL BY ROGER M. BALANZA UNFRIENDLY TO DABAWENYOS Manila print journalists, calumnists, este, columnists, in particular, had a holiday crucifying Mayor Sara Inday Duterte for having punched court sheriff Abe Andres who refused to heed her plea...
Lynch-mob rule in impeachment by Iloilo Views on Mar 13, 2011THE ADMINISTRATION of President Benigno Aquino III is fueling a lynch-mob atmosphere over the effort to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez at all costs as the House of Representatives prepares to vote in plenary this week on the articles of impea...
Gutierrez on the dock by Iloilo Views on Mar 10, 2011MERCEDITAS GUTIERREZ is the first female ombudsman in the Philippines. She is the first non-elected official to face impeachment action in Congress in recent times. She is the first official appointed by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to se...
Myths of Facebook, Twitter ‘revolutions’ by Iloilo Views on Mar 9, 2011FACEBOOK, THE social media network, is claimed to have more than 500 million subscribers worldwide. I am not one of that vast army of camp followers. In the history of antiquity, camp followers consisted of the entourage of marauding military expedit...
In armored Lexus, Aquino is on fast lane by Iloilo Views on Mar 6, 2011WELL PAST his second 100 days, President Benigno Aquino III has been encountering rough sailing with the Philippine media. Since last Christmas, he has been picking bones with the press for the focus of its coverage on his passion for flashy cars, hi...
Betrayal by insiders and regime collapse by Iloilo Views on Mar 4, 2011(Conclusion) FORCES LOYAL to Col. Moammar Gadhafi are locked in a fierce battle with rebel forces for the control of Port Brega, an oil export terminal 800 kilometers east of Tripoli, underscoring his determination not to be toppled in the same way l...
Stand-off in Fortress Tripoli unlike Edsa 1 by Iloilo Views on Mar 1, 2011(Continued from Monday) UNLIKE EGYPT, Tunisia and Edsa in the Philippines in 1986, Col. Moammar Gadhafi is defying the pattern of quick revolutions as the uprising in Libya settled into a standoff between rebel forces and the security forces loyal to...
Tolstoy’s happy families and people power revolutions by Iloilo Views on Feb 28, 2011(First of a series) LEO TOLSTOY, in “Anna Karenina,” wrote, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In the face of the wave of popular revolutions that have convulsed the Middle East (from Tunisia and E...
