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Opinion » Bombs, conflicting reports, a CIA Chief and what all that could mean
by William M. Esposo
from Philstar
Are the recent bombings, the conflicting reports of the military and the police, the arrival today of CIA Chief Leon Panetta all connected? You cannot really say unless you see the big picture.
When some bombs exploded in Muslim Mindanao, most of us immediately tagged it to the conflict with the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) for a Moro homeland.
When less damaging bombs were planted in Metro Manila, we wondered if this is already the dreaded martial law scenario that is supposed to …
Opinion » On Michael Jackson, the man in the mirror, my take…
Kapeng BARAKO
by Jesse Jose
from Fil-Am MegaScene
On Tuesday, this week, the world stood still to celebrate the life of Michael Jackson … and to bury him. A memorial that unfolded live on several TV channels, movie screens, computers and mobile phones, here in America and abroad.
Nakalimutan ang guerra sa Irag at Afghanistan. Nakalimutan ang Iran at North Korea. Nakalimutan ang deficit at health care dito sa Amerika. At natabi sa isang tabi si Barack H. Obama.
Yes, I, too, have a few words to say about Michael Jackson. But first, I’d like …
Opinion » Virtuous paranoia
from Philippine Daily Inquirer
Even the paranoid have their enemies, the Machiavellian Henry Kissinger once famously said. We propose a modern version of this segurista saying, appropriate for the Age of Arroyo: Our democracy has enemies; we should act paranoid.
What else, after all, are we to make of the latest wave of bombings and bombing attempts? The several blasts in troubled parts of Mindanao are deadly enough, and are in all likelihood deliberate acts of terrorism, perpetrated by specific terrorist groups. The bombing attempts, however, like the incidents at the …
Opinion » Oplan August Moon: The Game of the Generals is on!
Brace yourself my friends for a tumultuous July. Some months ago, I’ve wrote an entry about the plan of hawks and ideologues within the Arroyo administration to create scenarios to implement Operation August Moon. This self-coup will allegedly happen the week after the SONA, on August 6, 2009. One of the indicators, say a source who requested anonymity, is the expected failure of the poll automation bidding.
” Pat, the plan involves compromising the automated bidding altogether, ” says a friend privy to the plan. ” Imagine, what was …
Politics & Government »
by Sonny Melencio
August 6 is the calendar day when there’s going to be a full moon. It is also the day that marks the imposition of emergency rule, according to Oplan August Moon, a plan that is rumored to be the handiwork of “hawks and ideologues” within the Arroyo government upon the order of President GMA herself.
The plan is to position military generals friendly to GMA in a self-coup that would bolster the administration’s bid to amend the Constitution before the end of the year, or before the 2010 …
Opinion » Divisoria boy
by Ana Marie Pamintuan
from Philstar
On Nov. 13, 2000, then House Speaker Manuel Villar banged the gavel and announced that President Joseph Estrada had been impeached.
Villar did not call for a full vote among the 218 members of the House of Representatives. Instead he presented signatures to prove that more than the required third of the House membership had endorsed the impeachment.
Erap’s opponents, wearing peach-colored ribbons, erupted into applause and rushed toward Villar to give him a hug. Erap’s supporters questioned the absence of a formal vote and what they said …
Opinion » Cory and the justice of historical revisionism
by Raul Pangalangan
from Philippine Daily Inquirer
The outpouring of prayers and support for former President Cory Aquino goes beyond human sympathy and shows that we have finally turned the corner in passing judgment over her presidency and, with the benefit of hindsight, can now appreciate the full measure of her place in Philippine history.
This comes just when editorial commentaries lament the redemption of Imelda Marcos, and many explanations have been offered for this revisionist turn in the nation’s verdict. The first is …
Politics & Government » An Open Letter to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
from PREDA Foundation
July 2009
Dear Madame President,
At no time in the history of the Philippines has there been a greater opportunity for the President to act decisively to protect Filipino children at grave risk than the present historical moment. Thousands of Filipino children are damaged for life when abused in the making of child pornography.
The abuse continues when the images of the sexually abused children are spread around the world through …
Read the full story >> An Open Letter to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Opinion » Tell Them that Its Urgent
from PREDA Foundation
If there is one great thing that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo can do with her awesome power in the Philippines is to use it for the well being and protection of vulnerable children. All she has to do in her State of the Nation Address on 27th of July to win a place in legal history is to tell her Congress that the Anti-Child Pornography Bill is “urgent”. All the Representatives have to do is to vote “yes” and they will save thousands of children from …
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