As the United States enforces a naval blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz – the chokepoint through which nearly one-fifth of global oil flows – the world is confronting a stark reminder of geopolitical reality. Global crude prices have surged overnight, supply chains are tightening, and the ripple effects are already reaching … Read more
The hearing that opened in The Hague on Monday is being called a historic moment for international justice. It is also, if you look at how we got there, a fairly damning record of everything that should have happened here first and didn’t. Duterte left Malacañang in June 2022. For the next 33 months he … Read more
Bong Revilla is in jail again. This is, by now, a familiar sequence: the arrest warrant, the dramatic surrender accompanied by family, the Facebook Live protests of innocence, the supporters outside the detention facility holding candles. He arrived at Camp Crame past 10 p.m. on January 19, his wife and children beside him. It was … Read more
On February 25, 1986, somewhere between one and three million Filipinos stood on a stretch of highway in Metro Manila and, without firing a single shot, ended twenty-one years of dictatorship. Ferdinand Marcos fled to Hawaii. Corazon Aquino was sworn in. The world called it a miracle. Journalists called it a model. Political scientists gave … Read more
The DPWH’s latest move misses the point entirely The Department of Public Works and Highways announced this week that it’s moving to blacklist up to 60 contractors involved in what Malacañang is calling “anomalous flood control and infrastructure projects.” Palace Press Officer Claire Castro revealed that the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board is already processing 16 … Read more