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Continue reading →: Dynastic Deceptions: How Duterte Youth and ACT-CIS Made a Mockery of Marginalized VoicesBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 21, 2025 The Philippines’ party-list system, birthed by Republic Act No. 7941, was designed as a lifeline for the marginalized—laborers, peasants, and indigenous communities meant to find a voice in Congress. Instead, it’s been transformed into a dynastic playground where elites like the…
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Continue reading →: Tiangco’s Treachery: How a ₱10-Billion Campaign Crashed and BurnedBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 20, 2025 IN THE Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), where administration allies have long commanded near-ironclad loyalty, the Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas coalition suffered a staggering shutout in the 2025 midterms—not a single candidate won a seat. This humiliating collapse…
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Continue reading →: Duterte Youth’s Electoral Charade: Comelec’s Complicity in a Democratic HeistBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 20, 2025 The Duterte Youth party-list saga is a festering wound on the Philippine electoral system, with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) playing the role of an indifferent bystander. A five-year-old petition to void their registration for flagrant procedural violations and blatant misrepresentation…
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Continue reading →: Philippine Democracy on Trial: Sara Duterte’s “Bloodbath” Gambit vs. Leila de Lima’s Stand for JusticeBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 20, 2025 A Dynasty’s Defiance: The Marcos-Duterte Showdown Ignites The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, set to erupt on July 30, 2025, is no mere legal proceeding—it’s a seismic clash in the ongoing Marcos-Duterte feud, a saga dripping with betrayal and…
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Continue reading →: From Trauma Surgeon to Global Trailblazer: Herbosa’s Fight for Health JusticeBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 20, 2015 IN A cramped Manila hospital in 2020, Nurse Mona Santos worked 18-hour shifts, her face bruised from a too-tight mask, tending to COVID-19 patients while fearing for her own children. She wasn’t alone: Filipino health workers, often underpaid and overworked, became…
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Continue reading →: OWWA’s P1.4B Debacle: Shredding the Law, Dodging Ethics, and Echoes of Gloria’s OFW Fund FiascoBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 19, 2025 WHEN millions of overseas Filipino workers scrape together their hard-earned dollars to fund the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), they expect protection—not betrayal. Yet the P1.4-billion land deal orchestrated by recently-fired OWWA chief Arnell Ignacio has done exactly that. As the…
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Continue reading →: The Duterte Dynasty’s Downfall in Davao: A Seismic Shift Threatening a Philippine EmpireBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 19, 2025 IN THE heart of Mindanao, a political earthquake is rumbling—one that could topple the most feared dynasty in modern Philippine history. But the aftershocks may be even more dangerous. The 2025 midterm elections have exposed deep fissures in the Duterte family’s…
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Continue reading →: Romualdez’s Iron Throne: A Supermajority’s Triumph and the Philippines’ Fractured FutureBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 18, 2025 IN Manila’s political crucible, House Speaker Martin Romualdez has forged an empire of 240 signatures, a supermajority that towers over the 315-member House of Representatives like a fortress carved from ambition. This isn’t just a number—it’s a death knell for dissent,…
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Continue reading →: Sara Duterte’s Impeachment Circus: A Constitutional Trainwreck in the MakingBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 18, 2025 THE impeachment trial of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, set to ignite on July 30, 2025, before a Senate moonlighting as an impeachment court, isn’t just a legal proceeding—it’s a political bloodbath. Accused of misusing public funds, betraying public trust, and…
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Continue reading →: The Impeachment Mirage: How Tiangco’s Blame Game Masks Alyansa’s Epic CollapseBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — May 18, 2025 IN THE cauldron of Philippine politics, where dynasties duel and alliances fray, the 2025 midterm elections have laid bare a stark truth: the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte was not the sole saboteur of the Marcos-backed Alyansa para sa Bagong…
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