Editorial: Philippine Daily Inquirer / October 07, 2021 With only about eight months to go before the end of its term, the Duterte administration is making belated moves to demonstrate that it is pursuing accountability for the thousands of lives of mostly poor Filipinos killed in the name of its brutal war on illegal drugs….
EDITORIAL: Philippine Daily Inquirer / October 01, 2021 Could it be Stockholm Syndrome? The way the administration has been most protective toward Pharmally and its officials to try to shield them from withering public scrutiny readily calls to mind that emotional response when victims develop positive feelings toward their abusers. As has emerged in the…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / September 28, 2021 The Department of Information and Communications Technology’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-PH) has confirmed that the cyberattacks on the sites of two alternative media outlets and a human rights group back in May originated from the computer network of the Philippine Army. According to Bulatlat and Altermidya-People’s…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer /September 24, 2021 The ironically named House committee on good government and accountability has slammed as “political” the Senate probe into the Pharmally deal, which has so far revealed how, among other anomalies, a small favored foreign supplier cornered a multibillion government contract for face masks, personal protective equipment, and test…
Philippine Daily Inquirer /September 18, 2021 And so it has come—the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to open a full investigation into the charges of crimes against humanity against President Duterte for his administration’s centerpiece “war on drugs.” The ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber announced Sept. 15 that it had found “reasonable basis” to proceed with the…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / May 07, 2021 National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose stirred up a massive hornet’s nest among the public and his fellow writers when, in his May 3, 2021 column in another daily, he baldly declared: “It may turn out that for all his vulgar language, Rodrigo Roa Duterte may…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / May 05, 2021 The struggle of the Cordillera people in the martial law era against the proposed damming of the mighty Chico River has again been given its rightful prominence with the restoration of the monument to Macli-ing Dulag and his comrades in its original spot on the Bontoc-Kalinga Road…
May 3, 2021, Audrey Azoulay, Maria A. Ressa , Gwen Lister ‘Being able to access information is not enough; we must also be able to assess it critically’ This year, World Press Freedom Day comes at a difficult time, characterized by ongoing attacks on journalists, the viral spread of false information online, and the weakening…