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Continue reading →: Kiko Pangilinan’s Motion to Nowhere: The Gag Order That Won’t DieDue Process, Sub Judice, and the Fine Art of Fighting Over Charges Nobody Is Adjudicating Anymore By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 16, 2026 HERE we go again. Just when you thought the impeachment trial of Vice President (VP) Sara Duterte couldn’t get more procedurally bizarre, the Senate has…
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Continue reading →: The ₱167 Billion Patriotism Trap: How the Government Is Selling You Your Own DebtA Legal Vacuum, a Vanishing Target, and the Quiet Conversion of Citizens into Creditors By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 16, 2026 THE numbers are impressive. The press releases are triumphant. The interest rate is attractive. And that, dear reader, is precisely what should terrify you. On October 9,…
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Continue reading →: The ₱206-Billion Vanishing Act: How JV Ejercito Became the Senate’s Last Honest AccountantThey Cut Your Vaccine and Funded Your Hospital Bill: The Logic of Visible Politics By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 15, 2026 IF YOU want to understand the pathology of Philippine politics, don’t read the Constitution. Read a budget bill. Specifically, read the 2027 General Appropriations Bill that the…
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Continue reading →: The Prosecution’s Surrender, Dressed Up as StrategyInside the Impeachment Retreat That Left Even the Prosecution’s Own Allies Asking: What Just Happened? Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 15, 2026 HERE’S a legal strategy so brilliant it deserves its own case study at the Harvard Law School’s “How to Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory” seminar:…
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Continue reading →: Remulla’s New Anti-Corruption Channel Has Everything Except a Launch DateHe indicted the President’s cousin but forgot to calendar the helpline By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 15, 2026 LET me be the first to admit it: Jesus Crispin Remulla has done more for Philippine accountability in one year than his predecessors managed in a decade — and I’m…
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Continue reading →: Paying Less, Owing More: The Philippine Debt Shell Game Nobody Wants You to SeeHow Refinancing, Rollovers, and Record Debt Became the Administration’s Favorite Magic Trick By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 15,2026 HERE’S a secret the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) would prefer stays between them and their spreadsheets: the Philippine government has mastered the art of borrowing more while looking like…
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Continue reading →: Hindi Ako Magnanakaw: Aragones, the Mayors, and the Missing ReceiptsThe Ombudsman Prosecutes Transactions, Not Taglines By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 14,2026 SANTA CRUZ, Laguna — Nothing says “I have absolutely nothing to hide” quite like summoning nineteen municipal mayors to the provincial capitol for a photo-op solidarity rally two weeks after a graft complaint lands on your…
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Continue reading →: When the Jaycees Bring the World to Clark: A Filipino Homecoming 76 Years in the MakingFour Congresses. Seven Decades. One Organization that Never Stopped Believing. By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | October 14, 2026 WHEN the world gathers in Clark, Pampanga, for the JCI World Congress 2026, the Philippines will have an opportunity to demonstrate something more enduring than its capacity to host an international…
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Continue reading →: The Prosecution Just Blinked: Sara Duterte’s Impeachment Trial Is Now a One-Charge CircusFour Articles Entered, One Survived: Inside the Prosecution’s Stunning Retreat By Louis ‘Barok‘ C.. Biraogo — October 14, 2026 In the high-stakes theater of Philippine impeachment politics, October 13, 2026, will be remembered as the day the House prosecution team decided that three of their four accusations against Vice President…
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Continue reading →: The Visayas Is Dark, Coal Is King, Garin Has a Plan—Trust Her, 35% by 2030A Political Dynasty, a Coal Moratorium, and the Graft Complaint That Says It All By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 14, 2026 IT IS a truth universally acknowledged in Philippine energy circles that when a government official says they are “very confident” about hitting a renewable energy target, what…
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