As the 27th year of the 1986 EDSA uprising that toppled the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos approaches, certain ‘pundits’ keep on rewriting that glorious event to suit their own political bent. Lately, an article in Get Real Philippines gave credit to the US-CIA in maneuvering Marcos out of power because of his nationalist sentiment of trying…
There are people who believed that on the tragic day of August 21, 1983, Marcos was bedridden with failing kidneys because of lupus (or due to stressful life, not lupus according to JPE’s Memoirs) and therefore he could not have ordered the ‘murder’ of the popular oppositionist former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. But Marcos was not always hobbled in…
Where the Supreme Court exercises its duty under the constitution, it is called “rule of law” but when Congress exercises the same function in accord with the same constitution, it is called “the mother of all blackmails”. It was a politically charge atmosphere in the House yesterday and Congressman Edcel Lagman cannot hide his displeasure over the decision…
During the reign of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (2001-2010), Senator Ping Lacson was charged with the murder of publicist Bubby Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito. He cried ‘political vendetta.’ He elevated his case to the Court of Appeals up to the Supreme Court and won. He called it the triumph of ‘the rule of law.’ By some stroke…
There is nothing so shocking about the revelation in the Mayuga report that army’s high ranking officers were involved in election cheating in 2004 which made GMA winner over her rival, movie king, Fernando Poe Jr. We are too numb of soldiers’ treachery to even care. Election cheating involving the army and the PNP, is one of…
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” ( Hunter Thompson, 1937 – 2005 U.S. writer and journalist). The Anti-Pinoy is a blog site which is…
I was for Senator Noynoy Aquino, though I am in America and during his campaign I have twice remitted small amount of money through his Yellow and Honest Movement, Inc. Noynoy and his teammate Sen. Mar Roxas won by wide margin from the U.S.-Pinoy electorate. I could only guess that if half of those who…
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