![[The Slingshot] A Duterte and Bato cop named Patay](https://pinoyabrod.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/tl-lito-patay-768x432.webp)
Antonio J. Montalvan II, Jun 10, 2024, Rappler.com It was an unthinkable scene. In the six years under Rodrigo Duterte, it was completely inconceivable to bring police officer Lito E. Patay to Congress and be grilled by legislators. First of all, the topic was classic Duterte untouchable: extrajudicial killings by the nation’s Philippine National Police…
EDITORIAL, May 13, 2024 Rappler.com Nagdurugo ang puso nating isipin na may anay sa hanay Nitong Mayo 10, inudyukan ni National Security Adviser Eduardo Año ang Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) na patalsikin sa Maynila ang Chinese embassy diplomats na naglabas sa media ng isa umanong recording. Sabi naman ni Defense Secretary Gibo Teodoro, dapat…
By Philip Giraldi Well friends, the verdict is in! If you are opposed to Israel’s slaughter of something like forty thousand Palestinians, mostly women and children, or the clearly enunciated plans by that nation’s government to ethnically cleanse the rest of historic Palestine, making the developing Eretz or Greater Israel a legally Jewish state, and…
![[OPINION] Why we need to remember SC verdict on Marcoses’ ill-gotten wealth](https://pinoyabrod.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tl-marcos-ill-gotten-wealth-768x432.webp)
Jul 12, 2023 2:32 PM PHT Ruben Carranza The July 2003 decision is the single biggest recovery of ill-gotten wealth against the Marcoses. It also said clearly: Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos stole from their own people. Twenty years ago this week, the Philippine Supreme Court declared that Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos had stolen billions from…
By Brando Suarez , Esquiremag.com, June 2023 Watching videos circulating online of Awra Briguela’s arrest at the hands of the Makati City Police, I can’t help but be reminded of how morally unsalvageable the PNP is as an organization. These cis policemen, coddled by overlords with masculinity only as fragile as theirs, have consistently failed…
Given these circumstances, how then account for the EU parliamentarians’ description of the Philippine human rights situation as “improved”? The answer can only be because the situation during the six years of the Duterte regime was so bad in comparison to the seven months of the Marcos II administration, the present can only seem better.
Heneral Lunacy, January 23, 2023 The President is expected to trot out the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF or the Fund) to the world investment community in Davos this coming week. From what was to be a full blown affair the presentation has allegedly been downgraded to “a soft launch” in case the international reception is…
![[OPINYON] Ang unang SONA ni BBM vs People’s Agenda](https://pinoyabrod.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/MARCOS-2-SONA-2022-768x512.webp)
Kulang ang inilatag na mga plano upang matugunan ang mga hamon at paghihirap na dinaranas ng ating bansa. Patuloy ang pagtaas ng mga bilihin, ang pandadahas sa oposisyon, ang kakulangan ng mga trabaho. Kaya naman nangingingibabaw pa rin ang paghahanap kung nasaan ang mamamayang Pilipino sa gobyernong ito. Sino ba ang kasama sa pag-unlad na pinaplano ng bagong administrasyon?