NCR to GCQ with Duque: Data shows Duterte between the Devil and the Deep Blue...
Did the Philippines make the right decision when it eased the lockdown on NCR, the country's coronavirus epicenter?On 1 June 2020, the Philippines decided to relax lockdown measures in Metro Manila,...
View Article#JunkTerrorBill: Fake Facebook Accounts linked to Fake Death Threat?
University of the Philippines Los Banos student organization Defend UPLB announced on 07 June 2020 [1] that it took down one of its posts after it supposedly launched an investigation on the matter. It...
View ArticleA short summary of the RTC decision on Maria Ressa's online libel case
Here is a concise summary of Manila RTC Branch 46 presiding judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa’s 37-page decision on People v. Maria Ressa et al., docketed as Criminal Case No. R-MNL-19-01141-CR for...
View ArticleCebu City's #COVID19 Crisis: A throbbing migraine for General Cimatu
Latest data shows Cebu City has 3,987 cases [1] against a total population of 922,961 [2], translating to 4,320 cases per million residents, i.e., between Italy’s 3,948 [3] and the UK’s 4,511 [4]....
View ArticleDuterte's precarious hold on power and the future of the Liberal Party
Being a Philippine President is like being the driver of the car called "the Philippine Government." Winning in 2016 is Duterte driver's license, but a license is not enough. Duterte also needs (1)...
View ArticlePres. Duterte to trap Cayetano today? Alan Peter still has way out
Evidence suggests that President Rodrigo Duterte may have put Speaker Cayetano on the horns of a dilemma, between Scylla and Charybdis, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between a rock and a...
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