Editorial Cartoons of the Week (November 16 to 22)

Malaya Business Insight, November 19, 2019 BusinessMirror, November 20, 2019 The Manila Times, November 21, 2019 Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 21, 2019 Malaya Business Insight, November 22, 2019

Editorial Cartoons of the Week (October 26 to 31)

Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 27, 2019 The Philippine Star, October 27, 2019 Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 29, 2019 Malaya Business Insight, October 30, 2019 The Philippine Star, October 31, 2019

Editorial Cartoons of the Week (October 19 to 25)

Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 19, 2019 The Philippine Star, October 19, 2019 The Manila Times, October 21, 2019 Malaya Business Insight, October 22, 2019 Manila Standard, October 24, 2019

Duterte verbal orders: Designed to protect himself?

JUST HOURS after President Rodrigo Duterte had received information about alleged corruption in the Philippine Charity Sweepstake Office (PCSO), he ordered its gaming operations shut down. PCSO General Manager Royina Garma informed him of alleged irregularities on July 26. Despite the absence of any written directive, the order was...

Explaining Inflation

  THE PHILIPPINE inflation rate has reached a nine-year high of 6.4%, exceeding the government estimate of 5.8% to 5.9%. But the Duterte regime describes it as “manageable” and “not alarming” even as the poor are struggling to cope with the high prices of basic commodities such as food....

Native Advertising: Not just a Problem of One

Philippines’ Right versus China’s Might: Facts and Views on Sea Issues

  CHINA’S DE-FACTO occupation of almost the entire South China Sea has emerged as the most serious external security concern for the Philippines since World War II. The military installations built by China on reefs in the Spratlys have been accomplished without the benefit of a treaty nor scrutiny...

Why fact check—and why Rappler and VERA Files

By Luis V. Teodoro THE DESIGNATION by the social media giant Facebook of Rappler and VERA Files as fact- checkers of its news feeds was in recognition of the well-established truth that false information, or as it is popularly known today, “fake news”—an oxymoron because the primary characteristic of...

Understanding the Commission on Human Rights

Photo from the Commission on Human Rights official Facebook page ONE HUNDRED nineteen votes was what it took for the House of Representatives to downsize the budget of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to a piddling PHP1,000 for 2018. Congressmen, who acted on a motion by SAGIP Representative...

Up Close and Personal: Bloggers in the “People’s Palace”

  “WE’RE IN interesting times wherein we are seeing bloggers with names become bigger than anyone… It’s a phenomenon that we have to embrace, at the same time we also have to control,” Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said in a February 20 press release. Social media played a...