Assassinated by the Marcos regime 20 years ago, Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. had seemed, in the first 40 years of his life, a most unlikely hero. Known before the martial law period as a glib, fast-talking senator likely to be president at 40, nothing had suggested that he would be other than just one more [...]
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Ninoy remembered
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on August 16, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Damaged and damaging?
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on October 17, 2003 | 1 Comment »
By a vote of 8-4-2 (eight in favor, four against, and two abstentions; one of the justices, Renato Corona, was on leave), the Supreme Court re-affirmed the other day, October 7, its April 1, 2003 resolution re-opening for trial the 11
The media under siege
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on September 11, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
Something is terribly wrong in the Philippine media. Something has been terribly wrong in the media despite the “restoration of democracy” in 1986. But 2003 is turning into their worst year in the nearly two decades since.
While they were sleeping
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on July 20, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
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
Fearing the ICC
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on July 6, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
What does the United States dislike
Candidate Arroyo (2)
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on June 12, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
After she announced in December 2002 that she would not run in 2004, understanding President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s policies as well as subsequent moves became increasingly difficult, because while she did emphasize that supposed decision, within weeks of 2003 she was speaking and acting like a candidate. In early February, or four months ago, and only [...]
Public relations triumph
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on May 22, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
The Arroyo state visit to the United States is a public relations triumph for both guest and host, as both had most likely hoped and anticipated. The public relations bonanza it is reaping for Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and George W. Bush indeed suggests that as state visits go, this one was not so much meant [...]
Part of the problem
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on May 9, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
In accusing a Filipino general of colluding with the Abu Sayyaf bandit group, Gracia Burnham has joined at least two other former hostages who have made the same claim. Former Abu Sayyaf hostage Raul Recio agreed with Burnham that there was indeed Abu Sayyaf-military collusion, as claimed by Burnham in her newly released book on [...]
Mission impossible
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on May 4, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
The 500-person
Lawless violence
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on May 2, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of lawless violence in Davao City and surroundings last April 2. Apparently, however, it’s not only Davao or just other parts of Mindanao that’s in that state. There’s also Mindoro, where early this week two human rights activists among five who had been abducted were murdered.
