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The 2025 midterm election didn’t just fill Senate seats — it redrew the political battlefield for the 2028 presidential race. Now, all signs point to a three-way battle for power: Sara Duterte, the populist heiress with a solid southern base and strategic dynastic alliances. Risa Hontiveros, leading a reinvigorated opposition bloc with fellow Senators Bam…
Sure Israel bombed Gaza to smithereens and, sure, it is now doing pre-emptive strikes on military targets in Iran. Sure, the United States, is now involved in this conflagration and, together with Israel, will likely bring the Islamic regime of Iran to its knees. So what’s wrong with all that? Is that good enough reason…
The revolving door at the Presidential Communications Office is a critical vulnerability that is undermining President Marcos’s public trust and legacy. Three years into his presidency, President Marcos has yet to come to terms with his communication team at the PCO, having already sent home three secretaries and placing the fate of the fourth press…
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Why is it that privately employed people like me are required to get accounted down to every single centavo when company money is used? Sara did not have to. And we are talking of billions of pesos. She is just laughing it off. Why is it that when I get carried away with my emotions…
By all appearances, cracks are beginning to show within the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and the root of the unrest may lie at the very top of the civilian defense bureaucracy. In a recent radio commentary by veteran broadcast journalist Deo Macalma, the undercurrent of dissatisfaction among the ranks of the military was…
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Not surprising that the newly-crowned emperor of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Leo XIV has now categorically stated that a “stable union between a man and a woman” forms the bedrock of good Christian families. Back in 2012, he had reportedly made remarks on the “homosexual lifestyle” and how “acceptance of same-sex relationships” allegedly promoted…
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Today, Filipinos once again troop to the polls to participate in Philippine democracy’s most festive tradition. Without even being deep enough into the details of the who’s who among the choices and the what’s what of the “issues” at stake, it is easy to predict what the outcome of all this means to the average…
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Transhumanism is popular among some “intellectuals” today and is fronted as the way forward, the hope of humanity. It is defined as the belief that humanity can transcend its natural limitations and become a higher form of being. Higher, not as in crossing over into the spiritual world, but more like physically superhuman. Expected attributes…
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