THE MEDIA LAWYER who filed a disbarment case against Ampatuan defense counsel Sigfrid Fortun before the Supreme Court was the one instead who was cited for contempt and fined by the tribunal after she allegedly violated the rule on confidentiality in...

TRANSPARENCY TRUE OR FALSE? Real or reel? Is the Aquino administration fully committed in theory as much as in practice in fulfilling its promises to achieve transparency, accountability, and good governance? But what about its failure to lead the...

ADVOCATES WHO ARE engaged in campaigning for issues that are relatively controversial, complex, or difficult should make use of social media in order to magnify their voices and demonstrate that their movement "has legs." So said Harper Reed during...

OTHER priorities take precedence over the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill, hence the failure of the Aquino administration to "to live up to its commitments by not making sure a freedom of information bill passed," according to an undersecretary of the...

FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW, Manila's broadsheets have been bannering the confrontation between followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and Malaysian authorities in a small town in Sabah. Reports have it that some 300 armed followers of the Sultan of Sulu...

THE PHILIPPINES is well on her way to joining a roll of dishonor of nations in Southeast Asia that are restricting online freedom. That is, if President Aquino should insist on enforcing the much-criticized Cybercrime Prevention Act. It is not a...

A NATION'S JOURNEY from repression to democratic restoration, and on to democratic consolidation, is never a single, straight path nor a simple daang matuwid. There are, in fact, multiple roads to democratic transition, multiple paths strewn with...