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‘Vote selling’ a lousy alibi to withhold ballot receipt

by Jarius Bondoc - April 23, 2025 - 12:00am

Glib talk won’t allay fears of rigging in Comelec’s first-ever overseas online voting. Only sincerity will.

If China ‘owns’ WPS, why is it destructive?

by Jarius Bondoc - April 16, 2025 - 12:00am

Google Maps, Google Earth and Flight Radar now distinguish West Philippine Sea from South China Sea. The world’s most popular digital cartographs thus validate Philippines’ exclusive economic zone under...

Filipino civilians too must prepare for China attackon nearby Taiwan

by Jarius Bondoc - April 9, 2025 - 12:00am

We’ve all heard accounts from our olds. Before the Occupation, Japanese migrant workers flocked to Philippine cities.

Filipinos are starving, politicos are insatiable

by Jarius Bondoc - April 4, 2025 - 12:00am

A hungry man is not a free man.

Despite BBM veto, Public Works budget still exceeds Education

by Jarius Bondoc - April 2, 2025 - 12:00am

Numbers don’t lie, people do.

Report Chinese spying, other suspicious schemes

by Jarius Bondoc - March 28, 2025 - 12:00am

The arrest of six suspected Chinese spies in Subic Freeport last week is the fourth Philippine counterespionage strike reported this year alone.

Now they’re hijacking Ninoy’s martyr legacy

by Jarius Bondoc - March 26, 2025 - 12:00am

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.

Bato expected personal loyalty from NSA Año, CIDG Gen. Torre

by Jarius Bondoc - March 21, 2025 - 12:00am

Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa broadcast Wednesday his grudge against National Security Adviser Eduardo Año:

Can Duterte request bail, strike plea bargain at ICC?

by Jarius Bondoc - March 19, 2025 - 12:00am

What are Rodrigo Duterte’s and co-respondents’ options at the International Criminal Court?

Law allows Duterte’s turnover to ICC; Bato, Albayalde next

by Jarius Bondoc - March 14, 2025 - 12:00am

Did government break the law in turning over Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court?

Try him too for crimes against sovereignty

by Jarius Bondoc - March 12, 2025 - 12:00am

Rodrigo Duterte will be remembered for surrendering Philippine sovereignty.

Palawan’s first inhabitant was Tabon Man, not Chinaman

by Jarius Bondoc - March 7, 2025 - 12:00am

That explorer Zheng He “discovered” Palawan isn’t the only historical lie Communist Chinese is peddling.

Pork barrels blocking our defense build-up vs China

by Jarius Bondoc - March 5, 2025 - 12:00am

War is imminent with Communist China. Seventy-seven percent of us Filipinos will fight for the motherla

SC Justice questions SolGen about Recto’s fund juggling

by Jarius Bondoc - February 28, 2025 - 12:00am

Ralph Recto is at the core of our PhilHealth’s P90-billion anomaly.

SC asked to void 2025 budget for excluding our PhilHealth

by Jarius Bondoc - February 26, 2025 - 12:00am

Health is our right, and must be affordable to us all.

How to detect Beijing’s Manchurian Candidate

by Jarius Bondoc - February 21, 2025 - 12:00am

On Feb. 4, Rep. Rodante Marcoleta blurted: “There is nothing as West Philippine Sea. Wala po yu’n. Kahit basahin yung ating mapa, there is no West Philippine Sea.”

This ‘poor’ party-list is connected to COA

by Jarius Bondoc - February 19, 2025 - 12:00am

This party-list contender proves how bastardized the system is:

BBM lied four times at start of campaign

by Jarius Bondoc - February 14, 2025 - 12:00am

Imee Marcos should’ve corrected brother Bongbong last Tuesday.

Trillanes black propaganda divides opposition, but favors BBM, Sara

by Jarius Bondoc - February 12, 2025 - 12:00am

“Trapos” – traditional politicos – go by personas, not principles.

Pork barrels needed to convict VP Sara

by Jarius Bondoc - February 7, 2025 - 12:00am

Up to last week, President Bongbong Marcos kept claiming he was against VP Sara Duterte’s impeachment. This week, his son Sandro Marcos was first of 215 congressmen to sign for impeachment.

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