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The 3 times that Pia Cayetano made us cry

Commentary

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By Antonio J. Montalvan II

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May 25, 2026

The audacity to ask for our tears when she shed not even a single teardrop for the thousands of voiceless Filipinos destroyed by state bullets in the bloody carnage of her madman Rasputin.

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Duterte’s snub of hearings a factor in ICC’s decision to keep him detained

ICC: No incident of Duterte’s fall in last 30 days

‘Shit happens’* at the Senate

News

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By Bullit Marquez

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May 18, 2026

May 11, 2026 will always be remembered as the day the venerable institution went down to the pits, something one never imagined in the country’s political history.

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The South China Sea Award at 10: Law’s victory, Power’s defiance, and the Philippines’ long game

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By Lowell Bautista

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May 16, 2026

For the Philippines, the task is not simply to remember the Award. It is to operationalise it through law, practice, diplomacy, and sustained presence. The real anniversary question is not whether Manila won in 2016, but whether it can convert that victory into enduring maritime resilience, regional leadership, and legal resistance in the face of power.That is the unfinished work of the Award.

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FACT CHECK Online Posts

FACT CHECK: Sara Duterte did NOT threaten to throw Trillanes into the WPS

Viral posts claiming Vice President Sara Duterte threatened to throw former senator Antonio Trillanes IV into the West Philippine Sea are fabricated.

Commentary South China Sea

Taking back the WPS, one mission at a time

Talk is cheap. We should have learned that lesson yesterday. Our verbosity alone will not drive China’s ships away from our exclusive economic zone. Words must be backed up by a coherent strategy and determined responses that imposes costs on them. Recovering control of our waters, after it was given up by the Duterte administration before, will require a long, arduous and incremental campaign, one island at a time, one feature at a time, one mission at a time.

Commentary

The terrorism of Alan Peter Cayetano

Alan Peter Cayetano is a social risk. Give him public office, power and political influence. He will not see these as instruments for public administration. He will see public service only as a front to shift to the gratification of ego. In time he will silence dissent and consolidate absolute power.