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[OPINION | Newspoint] A never-ending cleanup
President Duterte may have been prodigious at making a mess, and far from done with it, but his is only the latest in a rarely broken run of messy Philippine leaderships
[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] A ban on Duterte
Given his type of narcissism, one that blooms lustier and lustier with each live performance, we'd never know how far he would go with his indecencies
[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] Sara Duterte's honest convictions
I doubt that Sara’s statement portraying herself and, by natural extension, her consenting father unvirtuous also had been cajoled out of her; it looked more like an attempt she had taken on her own initiative in order to sound philosophical, in keeping with her new stature
[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] Justice by foreign intervention
Duterte is not completely out of reach by the law, and it will be ironic if it's yet the especially long arm of the International Criminal Court from the Hague, in the Netherlands, that gets him
[OPINION | Newspoint] Adding insult to injustice
If anything, the findings of the UN Working Group give a sense of both what justice may be like properly done and of the untold mockery it has been subjected to in De Lima’s case
[OPINION | Newspoint] Continuing martial law without continuing rebellion
How can an election conducted under martial law in Duterte's own home region be free or fair at all?
[OPINION | Newspoint] Why China cannot be trusted
Now the world's second biggest economy and a major power all around, China no longer hesitates to bully and cheat its way around client nations
[OPINION | Newspoint] Robredo and Rodrigo
It may seem unfair for Robredo — and absurd, too — to be compared with Rodrigo Duterte, but, having been cast by fate as his vice president, she just has to stand the comparison, if only for the hoped-for enlightenment of those fooled by Duterte or misinformed about her or otherwise requiring to be set straight
[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] Missing the forest for the trees
Indeed, China is emerging as the Duterte regime’s ultimate patron – as investor, infrastructure builder, labor and material supplier, and money lender – in a modern-day sort of colonial arrangement
[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] The Marcos compromise
Since Robredo and Sereno are fighting their battles in the same theater, it’s easier to detect the conspiratorial hands at work in their cases
[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] ‘Tuloy ang laban!’
Mogato is the last to be fooled. He knows that, along with his Reuters colleagues, he is a particular target for the particular crime of putting names and faces to some of those numbers and detailing the cold, sick, subhuman instincts with which Duterte's war has been prosecuted.
[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] The ultimate betrayal
Why should Duterte trouble himself with a minority chief justice?
[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] Democracy’s short Philippine life
Of course, we've only had a go at it twice. But with the untold losses we've suffered with each failure, how can we afford another?
[OPINION | Newspoint] No cheap President
Call him killer, dictator, womanizer, misogynist, whatever, but don't you call him thief
[OPINION | Newspoint] Duterte vs Morales: Power vs justice
The core issue is hidden, possibly ill-gotten, wealth. It began hounding Duterte during the electoral campaign. During his presidency it has been overshadowed by other, graver, issues he can’t seem to stop provoking.
[OPINION | Newspoint] A souring plot
Duterte is in a great hurry. He wants to put federalism on track, hoping to construct around it some reason, some excuse, some pretext to stop the May 2019 midterm elections.
[OPINION | Newspoint] Constitutional tyranny
Democracy is hijacked and perverted to allow tyranny by the majority. Duterte and Congress are in it together for one conspiratorial cause.
[OPINION | Newspoint] A dangerous place
The Philippines is actually one of the world's most dangerous places not just for journalists but for its very own people
[OPINION | Newspoint] Lucky and dangerous
So, how far has Rodrigo Duterte taken us down the road to authoritarianism?
[OPINION | Newspoint] A mental itch
Harry Roque said Duterte had only intended a revolutionary government for when the nation fell in extremis – 'kung lupaypay na' were his exact words, which only makes things worse for Duterte. For, with him in charge, who else could bring the nation to such helplessness?
[OPINION | Newspoint] A new Rody and Harry Show
The two of them should make for a catchy marquee: Rody and Harry. But, in the end, it's the provocative personality each one brings to the tandem that will define their show.
[OPINION] Newspoint | Abnormal evolution of justice
Ideology is a system of political and economic thought that chooses a particular character in a particular environment in whom to incubate, and conviction is well-informed steadfastness. Simpleminded, impulsive, and stubborn, Rodrigo Duterte is just all wrong for both.
[Newspoint] A runaway train
I can imagine it s not difficult for [Martin Andanar] to have felt legitimized when he was enlisted as newspaper columnist Now he s thinking of legitimizing bloggers as members of the press themselves
[Newspoint] Vox Duterti, vox Dei
His epiphany makes him harder yet to categorize especially normally But we will always try – if only for our own sense of consolation and security He is after all our president
[Newspoint] The ominous knock on the door
Duterte’s war on drugs is finally hitting home If fascism begins with a knock on the door we have been taken well past that We have ignored the signs and continue to ignore them
[Newspoint] Searching history for culprits
As a critic of colonial patronage – and what a spiteful critic he is – Duterte himself lacks the standing
[Newspoint] Living upside down
Duterte is thought new by those too young to have lived life long enough; he is thought on the other hand suitable by those who I imagine have managed to live life easily enough in the worst of times
