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January 27, 2019January 29, 2019

Another glimpse of 2019: Part 2 of the CNN Senatorial Forum

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1226 Views 2019 philippine senatorial elections, cnn philippines, featured, florin hilbay, neri colmenares

READ: Part 1 of the CNN Senatorial Forum series With the May 2019 mid-term elections only three months away, the need to know the

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The Philippines 
January 25, 2019January 28, 2019

The Administration is now pointing fingers on lowering the age of criminal responsibility

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1087 Views featured, gloria arroyo, gloria macapagal-arroyo, juvenile crime act, penal reform, rodrigo duterte, victor yap

Drawing the ire of the nation, the House of Representatives’ Justice Committee approved a bill amending the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 (JJWA)

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The Philippines 
January 22, 2019January 24, 2019

Explaining Duterte’s hatred for the Catholic Church

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1433 Views Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, featured, Pope Francis, rodrigo duterte

While drug addicts, communists and the opposition Liberal Party have bore the brunt of President Rodrigo Duterte’s furor, there is another group that has

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The Philippines 
January 20, 2019January 20, 2019

Duterte’s paranoid hold on power has plunged the Philippines into an era of “McCarthyism”

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1583 Views act teachers party-list, featured, makabayan bloc, new people's army, red tagging, rodrigo duterte

At the height of the Cold War, prominent figures in U.S. politics took advantage of the paranoia everyday Americans had towards the perceived threat

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The Philippines 
January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

The Military’s “NPA Surrenderees” campaign is not adding up

Posted By: Louie Encabo 2440 Views delfin lorenzana, featured, new people's army, rodrigo duterte

Pushed by President Duterte’s obsessive campaign to rid of the New People’s Army, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has waged war not

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The Philippines 
December 28, 2018December 28, 2018

Fifty years of the CPP: Why does the “People’s War” still persist?

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1907 Views communist party of the philippines, featured, ferdinand marcos, new people's army, rodrigo duterte

While millions of Filipinos celebrated the birth of their saviour Jesus of Nazareth this week, in the hinterlands of the provinces thousands of their

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The Philippines 
December 14, 2018December 18, 2018

The double standards in Duterte’s War on Religion

Posted By: Louie Encabo 2379 Views apollo quiboloy, featured, Felix Manalo, Iglesia Ni Cristo, kingdom of jesus christ, rodrigo duterte

Aside from the drug cartels, another group that has found itself in the cross-hairs of President Rodrigo Duterte’s vitriol is the Roman Catholic Church.

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The Philippines 
December 4, 2018December 5, 2018

A beacon of hope in a hopeless Congress

Posted By: Louie Encabo 2191 Views 2019 philippine senatorial elections, act teachers party-list, bayan muna, featured, kabataan party-list, makabayan bloc

As it is called the House of Representatives, you would expect its members to represent the people who elected them to the office. Sadly,

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The Philippines 
December 3, 2018December 3, 2018

A glimpse of 2019

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1366 Views 2019 philippine senatorial elections, bam aquino, chel diokno, featured, francis tolentino, gary alejano, juan ponce enrile, ronald dela rosa, serge osmena

Similar to the Christmas season, election campaigns also begin prematurely in the Philippines. There are still six months to go before the May 2019

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The Philippines 
September 4, 2018September 5, 2018

Why We Need to Pay Close Attention to Duterte’s Israel Trip

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1138 Views featured, Israel, israeli defense force, rodrigo duterte

In what could be his most significant official state visit since his 2016 trip to the People’s Republic of China, President Rodrigo Duterte embarks

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