Imperfect Justice in Ampatuan Massacre
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the Ampatuan massacre. With the guilty verdicts imposed on many of the accused —most of the masterminds and many of the perpetuators—last December 2019, this year’s milestone is not as depressing as in previous years. At the same time, we must remember that what we achieved with the guilty […]
Duterte Rants Against VP Robredo
President Rodrigo Duterte regularly spews profanities in public, but his latest tirades against Vice President Leni Robredo is in a class of its own. Although the President has castigated the vice president on previous occasions, the level of malice and vitriol he hurled against Robredo has reached a new high this time. In a televised […]
Lawfare Against De Lima and Media
From the beginning, and for years now, I have argued that there is no basis for the charges against Senator Leila De Lima. Developments in her trial this week confirmed that. Any serious observer in that process will concede that the government has nothing against the detained opposition leader. As the Free Leila De Lima […]
Inside the August Halls, Lord Rises
Co-Authored with Jayvy Gamboa. “Today, history is made, once again, in these august halls.” This was how newly elected Speaker Lord Allan Velasco described his controversial rise to power on October 12, after weeks of power struggle with Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano on their supposed term-sharing agreement brokered by no less than President Rodrigo Duterte at the […]
In Defense of Facebook
‘The shutdown of these inauthentic advocacy pages is one of Facebook’s most prudent decisions thus far. I give it my full support.’ In a move that was perhaps surprising to many, Facebook, in the last week, took down hundreds of coordinated fake accounts that were interfering in the politics of the Philippines and the US. According to […]
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