Palparan and the counter-insurgency game plan
By Julius D. Mariveles
EX-ARMY general and former congressman Jovito Palparan has been accused of ordering the abduction, torture, and murder of civilians whom he suspected to be connected with or...
(A Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo mascot behind bars. Photo by Joan Marfil.)
scenes and soudbytes from in and out of the Batasan
AT A MOCK trial of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last Monday on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, about 5,000 rallyists from...
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivered her ninth State of the Nation Address yesterday, July 27, 2009. The speech comes with a technical report posted on the Office of the President’s website.
You can read the full text of Arroyo’s ninth SONA...
OUR latest report looks at what should be a positive impact of infrastructure projects on poverty alleviation initiatives of the government.
Sadly, this report authored by Karol Ilagan, PCIJ writer-researcher, reveals that in five of the 10 provinces...
Our latest offering is a two-part report on how politics drive the award of public-works contracts.
The first part written by senior journalist Tita C. Valderama, PCIJ training director, reveals how two sons in Congress of President Gloria Macapagal...
(Last of two parts)
IF IT seems as if President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is omnipresent, even when on frequent travels overseas, that could partly be because of the proliferation of huge tarpaulins bearing her image.
Indeed, in the last few years,...
WHENEVER it is confronted with the latest survey findings about the worsening levels of corruption in the country, the Arroyo government would typically dismiss the results as based on "mere perception."
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her retinue of...
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