"Weddings are a few of most people’s favorite things. The grander the wedding and the more prominent or powerful the wedding parties – we are all the more interested and hooked. When politicians marry, however, the event often involves two levels...

The people's initiative versus pork barrel in all forms By Julius D. Mariveles 'The pen is mightier than the pork." - Inday Espina-Varona, Scrap Pork network "This is not right, we must do something." Renato Reyes, Bayan secretary-general “When...

THE PEOPLE’S initiative versus the pork barrel might fail if the current Commission on Elections will count the votes during a referendum for the approval of a law that would ban the fund. This was the warning of Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz, one...

IT WAS a gathering repeated over and over again for the past 57 months. This time, on the grounds of the National Council of Churches of the Philippines office in Quezon City, Philippines, journalists, families and friends of the victims of the Ampatuan...

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TODAY, 57 months after the Ampatuan Massacre, justice has yet to be had for 58 people who were murdered on a hilltop in the village of Masalay in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province. Exactly 57 months ago today, armed men believed to be under orders...

By Sheila S. Coronel [Reprinted article from Sheila S. Coronel's blogpage WatchDog Watcher] THIS WEEK, I moderated a discussion that followed the screening of Silenced, a new documentary that tells the stories of three whistleblowers who exposed...