THE protection of one’s rights is deemed universal, cutting across social strata, guaranteed to everyone, everywhere, at all times. In many parts of the world, however, realities indicate that such universality of social justice has yet to be...

THE Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s current probe on the 2004 alleged fertilizer fund diversification is supposed to be in aid of legislation, but it seems it’s the opposition in the lower chamber that has come up with a related bill. According to...

THE Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law is now on its 20th year but farmers continue to mount protest marches to assert full and fair implementation. Last Thursday,the police arrested and detained at a Quezon Ciy jail nine farmers who trekked to the...

WITH delicadeza just so easily dispensed with, the fourth impeachment complaint against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was junked last week and goes to a plenary vote this Tuesday. But it is unlikely that enough votes will be garnered to overturn the House of...

CHARGES of cheating, bribery, graft and corruption and other crimes will continue to haunt President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo even beyond 2010 as her critics vowed to carry on the fight while Catholic bishops urged the citizenry to keep searching for the...

ONE by one, as if in a chorus line, allies of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the House of Representatives on Tuesday took turns undermining the fourth impeachment complaint filed against her, prompting pro-impeachment lawmakers to nearly walk out of...

THE PCIJ recently added another award to its collection, winning the 2007 National Book Award for Journalism for its book "The Rulemakers: How the Wealthy and Well-born Dominate Congress." The recognition from the Manila Critics Circle and the National...