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While the country is still in a tailspin from the effects of COVID-19, Solicitor General Calida has singlehandedly managed to create another crisis to throw the Philippines into further instability. In addition to the potential constitutional or political crisis, Calida just added over 10,000 ABS-CBN employees to unemployment and poverty. Calida argues that ABS-CBN is…

Spokesperson Sal Panelo proclaimed Pres. Duterte does not want ABS-CBN to shut down. But Panelo’s statement is suspect given SolGen Calida’s filing of quo warranto petition in SC. Calida also wants the high court to gag ABS-CBN from exercising free speech. The administration is speaking from the two sides of its mouth. Calida argues that…

Pres. Duterte’s announcement to cancel VFA purportedly as a retaliation for the cancellation of Sen. Bato’s U.S. visa, is actually a direction consistent with Philippines’ recent pivot to China. But the scrapping of VFA is facing strong headwinds coming from the Senate, Department of Foreign Affairs and most importantly, from the Department of Defense. Reading…

Francisco Duque III should resign as Secretary of DOH because he is not acting as the country’s health official, instead he is acting more as a political hack. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, he is a danger to the Philippines. During a deliberation in Congress on Jan. 30, on why travel ban should be imposed against…