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Navy Lieutenant (senior grade) Antonio Trillanes, the most visible leader of the officers and men who took over Makati’s Oakwood residence Sunday, has every reason to be unhappy over the resolution of the crisis he and his fellows created.
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(From Radio Singapore International’s Interview with Prof. Teodoro)

Philippine police have arrested an aide of deposed former president Joseph Estrada as the government vowed to pursue the political backers of a failed military mutiny and limit the damage to the country’s image and economy.
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Official corruption being one of the biggest causes of the country’s perpetual backwardness, we can only applaud the filing of graft charges against three Bureau of Internal Revenue and one Bureau of Customs officials by the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission.
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Military “restiveness” can refer to anything in the Philippines from the soldiery’s griping about their salaries and incentives to the officer corps’ grumbling about bad governance and issuing the usual threats of a coup. Whichever’s the case, however, it’s ultimately based on the perception among officers and men that they’re not getting the pay and perks they should be getting.
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I belong to the decades-old organization of former political prisoners which goes by the jaw-breaking name Samahan ng Mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensiyon at Para sa Amnestiya, or SELDA.

SELDA initiated the class action suit in Honolulu which over ten years ago won former political prisoners a $2.3 billion award to be sourced from the Marcos Estate.
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The Australian media may be outraged, but they do not seem surprised. Anyone can sense that between the lines of their editorials and other expressions of opinion over the escape of the Jemaah Islamiyah’s Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi and two alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf last Monday.
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In justifying a policy, or an act that can’t otherwise be explained, government officials and politicians occasionally invoke history. But it’s not because they believe in its judgment, or care about it. They do so because history’s judgment, if it does come at all, will come much later, sometime in the future. Meanwhile, it’s a convenient way of appearing both moral as well as wise, and of silencing opposition and discouraging questions. Worried about the present? Concerned over what the government’s doing or has done? History will judge—and the best thing about it is that it will be doing so in the dim future.
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