The Philippines’ most beloved woman, former President Cory Aquino, passed away at 3:18 AM August 1, 2009, of cardio-respiratory arrest. She was 76. Let’s pray for her repose. Cory will be remembered as the woman who brought the brightest days of the Filipino people when the Marcos dictatorship was overthrown. Let’s remember her [...]
Kapeng BARAKO by Jesse Jose from Fil-Am MegaScene Y’all heard about it, right? About the arrest last week of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard’s most prominent professor and scholar of African-American studies, by a Cambridge, Massachusetts white cop … and when President Barack Obama was asked to comment about it, said that that cop “ACTED [...]
by Paula Wolfson White House U.S. President Barack Obama met Thursday at the White House with Philippine President Gloria Arroyo. Mr. Obama stressed the importance of U.S. ties with the Philippines. Those ties go back years. The Philippines was a U.S. colony during the first half of the 20th century and there was a major [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, let me express my thanks and appreciation for the visit from President Arroyo. As we discussed during our meeting here and our delegations, the relationship between the United States and the Philippines dates back many years. It is a friendship that is forged not only in treaties and trade relationships and [...]
by Lito Banayo from MALAYA Just before she left to see Obama at the White House, a “working visit” with a retinue of at more than a hundred, a “summons” as Sen. Pong Biazon uncharitably calls it, the little lady sent back the shortlist of six nominees for two vacancies in the Supreme Court, back [...]
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR by William M. Esposo from Philstar It may not win the coveted Pulitzer Prize for literature although that is not to say that it’s badly written. But for anyone who wants a preview to the looming US-China armed conflict, especially Filipinos who will find themselves on Ground Zero in that [...]
by Frank Wenceslao The July 30 meeting of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo with President Obama will be after the worst two-week of his 6-month old administration. His job approval rating fell below 50% for the first time. The meeting is capped by beer drinking to settle the unfortunate incident between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates [...]
by Antonio C. Abaya from Standard Today President Arroyo was most effusive, most entertaining and most exuberant when she was firing broadsides at some of her most severe critics. The sarcasm was delicious, the irony well chosen, and the bile delivered with the right amount of pointed arrogance. Bravo! It saved her (last?) State [...]
28 July 2009 PRESS RELEASE Reference: Garry Martinez, Chairperson-09217229740 Ailyn Abdula, Media Officer, 09212708994 After PGMA’s SONA: Beheaded OFWs will haunt her – Migrante The biggest global alliance of OFWs belied claims made by President Arroyo on her SONA saying her administration holds the record for unparalleled exploitation and abuse against overseas Filipinos including the [...]
by Lito Banayo from MALAYA It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. Everyone was glued to the ninth SONA of Dona Gloria, waiting for the moment when she would finally sing. She ain’t fat alright, but she’s the star of the long-running opera, tragedy to most, sheer fun to a few. All she did [...]
