Threat to Threat: How to Influence Supreme Court Justices
By Bernadine Racoma, originally posted at Blog Watch, Threat to Threat: How to Influence Supreme Court Justices So what assistance would the “small lady” be offering...
Health advocates welcome victory over PDAF’s unconstitutionality
via Alternative Budget Initiative (ABI) Finally, the health of the Filipino people seizes to become just another target for political patronage of traditional politicians. This...
On SC ruling: Triumph of collective action
We welcome the SC ruling declaring the Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF) unconstitutional as a victory of the Filipino people’s collective action. It is...
The struggles I share with the victims of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
by RJ Barrete I grew up in the province of Samar (one of the affected and damaged by typhoon Haiyan), and there I saw how...
The Presidential Miscommunications Development and No-Planning Office
By Dean de la Paz – Originally posted on Blog Watch at thepoc.net It was unprecedented. The model they copied seemed plagiarized straight out of...
Corruption, Climate, Congress: Preying on Philippine Resilience and Faith
November 9, 2013 at 3:10am by Prof. Dr. Diane A. Desierto (JSD, Yale) Anyone born, bred, raised, and educated in the Philippines instinctively knows what...
Putin and Obama: a comparative irony of the “dove” and the “hawk”
But Russia sometimes can play a positive role in world politics, in spite of the fact that I want to stress again in internal policy...
#ScrapPork Redistribute and socialize pork funds
This is a press statement of Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) Instead of Malacanang and Congress leaders colluding again to retain the fraudulent...
Pork barrel, by any other name, is anti-development
Jose Carlos Maningat It took a growing anti-pork barrel dissent for President Aquino to utter the “it is time to abolish the PDAF” spiel, only...
Cover Ups, Fund Scams and the Pork
by Megan Flores There’s More Here than Meets the Eye The case of Jenny Napoles has opened a can of worms whose stench has reached...
A Tribute to the Team (Gilas) Philippines
Dare to Fail, Strive to Succeed: A Discourse on Life’s Struggle and the Way of the Warrior “It’s great. I’m just proud with everybody involved...
Pilipinas…for the Win! #LabanPilipinas
By ‘Lakwatserang Paruparo’ Let’s face it, basketball is the most popular sport in the Philippines. Despite the average height of Filipinos compared to international basketball...
Pork Barrel Polemics #PDAFScam
by Dean de la Paz In the prelude to the Php 729 million fertilizer fund scam instigated by the Executive Branch in the previous administration...
The Pork Barrel Scam: Getting Away with Billions of Pesos (Last of 3 parts) #PDAFScam
Continued from Part 1 and Part 2 The blog that started it all has been re-blogged and Mr. Anonymous Commenter’s request that the revelations he...
The Pork Barrel Scam: Getting Away with Billion of Pesos (Part 2 of 3 parts) #PDAFScam
Continued from The Pork Barrel Scam: Getting Away with Billion of Pesos (Part 1) Open to scrutiny The pork barrel has a more dignified name. It...