Nothing much can be achieved in the impeachment of CJ Corona even if successful in the Senate except to sear in the public memory that a radical change in the leadership of the Supreme Court, touted before as the “untouchable” branch of the government is but a myth. But surely, it will not alter the present dynamics…
I could not write better than the illustrious historian Alfred W. McCoy, so I might as well reprint what he had written about martial law terror of President F. Marcos 39 years ago today. “IN THE FOURTH MONTH of President Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law rule, two constabulary troopers marched a middle-aged Chinese merchant across a Manila parade…
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…
“The devil can cite the Scripture for his purpose.” (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice). It was in the case of Navy Colonel Generoso Mariano, who wanted President Noynoy Aquino replaced through extra-constitutional process by quoting the near “scriptural bidding” of Rizal: “If we have had bad leaders today and in the past , it is not the…
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