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Archive for September, 2003

War of the bosses

There’s a war on, and it’s not just between the government and the various armed groups that have been fighting it for decades. The war is also within the political system—between the administration and what should be its loyal opposition.
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The media in aid of election

No one from the police or the military is saying exactly what the connection is between the supposedly still brewing attempts to force President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo out of office, and Senator Panfilo Lacson’s claims of corruption and money laundering against Mrs. Arroyo’s husband Jose Miguel. But both Armed Forces and police sources have suggested that there is a connection, and that the people and groups involved include the usual suspects from the opposition.
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Echoes of 1972

If the Arroyo government doesn’t watch out, it may yet end up sounding and looking so much like the Marcos government that those old enough to remember that atrocity may think the country to be in a time warp.
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