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Continue reading →: ROBES AND REVENGE: DE LIMA SLAMS COURT IN DUTERTE’S IMPEACHMENT BLOODBATHBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 16, 2025 THE Philippine political arena is a brutal coliseum, and Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment saga, with Leila de Lima swinging as a House prosecutor, is its bloodiest spectacle yet. De Lima’s cry of “judicial overreach” against the Supreme Court’s document demand…
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Continue reading →: $26 Short of Glory: The Philippines’ Economic Hunger Games FlopBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 12, 2025 MABUHAY, Philippines! You’ve snagged the economic equivalent of a consolation prize—$26 shy of the World Bank’s upper middle-income country (UMIC) status, while 17 million families scrape by on less than ₱20,000 a year. The nation’s GNI per capita hit $4,470 in…
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Continue reading →: Obsolete Laptops, Outrageous Prices: Briones and Lao’s P2.4B Graft NightmareBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 15, 2025 The Scandal in Headlines Imagine a nation in lockdown, teachers scrambling for Wi-Fi to educate kids through screens, and the Department of Education (DepEd) squandering P2.4 billion on laptops so overpriced and outdated they could’ve been museum relics. In 2020, former…
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Continue reading →: Wi-Fi for All, Wisdom for None: DepEd’s Digital Dream Drowns in RealityBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 15, 2025 The Grand Illusion Behold the magnificent educational utopia that the Department of Education’s (DepEd) latest policy announcements will surely deliver!! By the end of 2025, every one of the 47,000 public schools will bask in the glow of Wi-Fi—a digital utopia…
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Continue reading →: The OVP’s P903 Million Jackpot: A Teleserye of Fiscal Fiasco in Philippine PoliticsBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 15, 2025 IN A twist straight out of a teleserye so absurd it could star Vilma Santos and Judy Ann Santos fighting over a balikbayan box, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has gifted the Office of the Vice President (OVP) a…
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Continue reading →: From Guevarra’s Defiance to Berberabe’s Dance: The ICC’s Philippine Power PlayBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 14, 2025 THE Office of the Solicitor General’s (OSG) newfound openness to reconsider the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction over the Philippines isn’t a Damascene conversion to legal principle—it’s a calculated political maneuver dressed in the starched folds of a barong. Under Solicitor…
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Continue reading →: Duterte’s Last Laugh: Can ICC’s Stalled Chase Survive Manila’s Power Games?By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 14, 2025 THE International Criminal Court’s (ICC) case against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is a legal bloodbath with global reverberations. Arrested on March 11, 2025, for alleged crimes against humanity in his brutal “war on drugs,” Duterte faces a September 2025 charges…
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Continue reading →: Programs, Policies, Minus Integrity: How a Tobacco Spin Doctor Became Marcos’ ‘Transparency’ CzarBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 14, 2025 IN THE Philippines’ grand tradition of ironic political appointments, President Marcos Jr. has outdone himself by naming a former tobacco executive as the nation’s truth-teller. Dave Gomez, who spent two decades polishing Philip Morris’ image, now heads the Presidential Communications Office—promising…
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Continue reading →: Balisacan’s Big Bet: Taxing the Poor’s Last Peso for ‘Public Good’By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo+ July 13, 2025 BEHOLD the Philippines—where the government’s answer to the metastasizing plague of online gambling isn’t a cure but a shiny new cash register. Secretary Arsenio Balisacan, with the serene confidence of a man who’s never bet his last peso on a digital slot…
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Continue reading →: Cockfight Cover-Up: Ang and Reyes Sweat the Lie Detector SpotlightBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 13, 2025 IN THE Philippines, where roosters duel like gladiators and betting is a sacred vice, the vanishing of 34 cockfighting aficionados—sabungeros—has unearthed a scandal so vile it could choke a volcano. Taal Lake, a bubbling cauldron of secrets, is spitting out charred…
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