Analysis | The president’s offer of reconciliation was made at the wrong place, at the wrong time and by the wrong source.
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Analysis: Postscript to a fraudulent elections
Political dynasties are a product of a society riven by income inequalities and lack of opportunities for social and economic…
Pork barrel, perks helped pro-Arroyo clans to dominate House, LGUs
by Alex Berkofsky China has not started any wars lately, Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman wrote in February, pointing to…
Analysis | The effect of the electoral sabotage is to cast doubt on the electoral process and the integrity of the Comelec itself. The effect of the sabotage strategy against the PPLs was not to undermine the blocs political base but to add another cause for making the current presidency illegitimate.
Analysis | By Datu Michael O. Mastura | Media reporters — more accurately, opinion editors — are wrong to say that casting of votes or counting of ballots runs afoul in the ARMM (Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) simply because Muslim-Moro individuals have low literacy rate. What makes such comments most absurd is anti-Moro profiling of their leaders (if not out of discriminatory slant by sheer slur) who are perceived to keep them illiterate or uneducated enough to organize them into so-called command votes constituency.
Analysis | No election has been fair and square. In the recent elections, the outcome has been decided by one’s political hold on the Commission on Elections — and the numerous compromises that powerful election authorities make with the highest bidders to rig the elections.
