Opinion and Commentary
From the Mail: Self-serving claim
February 10, 2020, 9:05 pm
By Victoria Patria RED-tagging? Red-baiting? It's only a fictitious and self-serving claim of the operators, cadres and adjunct support groups of the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army - National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) who are operating in urban areas and town centers… Read More
From the Mail: Family in the eyes of communists
February 4, 2020, 3:15 pm
By Victoria Patria YES, Russian President Vladimir Putin is absolutely correct. The primary and principal consequence of communism, even at the stage of its building process that functionally starts with the stage of socialism--which is social revolution towards the establishment of the… Read More
Ledesma: Strengthen the Water Districts
February 3, 2020, 5:38 pm
THE Philippine Association of Water Districts is holding its 41st National Convention in Davao City this week. If not for the emergence of the novel-corona virus which took the world by storm the controversial issues surrounding the supply of potable water, unconscionable profiteering of… Read More
Ledesma: Dealing with nCoV
January 31, 2020, 3:48 pm
I HAVE been monitoring the alarming development of the outbreak of the Novel Corona Virus which had spread all over and not sparing even the first world countries. For a number of days Philippines, despite its proximity to China, was not in the list of countries where the deadly and highly… Read More
From the Mail: WHO: China’s actions checked 2019-nCoV spread
January 31, 2020, 1:52 pm
By Herman Tiu Laurel THE Philippines formally established “comprehensive strategic cooperation” with China in 2019 when President Xi Jinping visited President Rodrigo R. Duterte in the Philippines. Since then the boost in trade, investments, and tourism has helped the Philippines attain one of… Read More
From the Mail: Real power is the people
January 30, 2020, 5:19 pm
By Victoria Patria THE main lesson being taught and inculcated by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) among us cadres from the youth and students sector/ YS or the so-called 'petty-bourgeois class' about the historical value and significance of the First Quarter Storm or FQS of the 70,… Read More
Badoy: The poisoned pen of Tonyo Cruz
January 25, 2020, 3:50 pm
IF you want to have some understanding about the sorry state of Philippine media in general and journalism in particular and how tenacious and overreaching the influence of communist terrorists have over it, the case of Tonyo Cruz will give you clear answers. It will show you who has been… Read More
Ledesma: EXCELLENT
January 23, 2020, 4:04 pm
IF Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte, by his own confession, is an average student in school, he definitely knows how to lead and the nation gave him an unprecedented net satisfaction rating of 72%. That doesn’t seem to be a passing mark, but in the scoreboard of rating agencies, like the Social Weather… Read More
Ledesma: How the LP crumbles
January 22, 2020, 12:19 pm
THE withdrawal of the complaint filed by Atty. Jude Sabio against Pres. Rodrigo Duterte uncovered and validated the sinister plot to oust the latter. A conscience-stricken Sabio made a true confession that the scheme was all the handiwork of the political opposition that had been salivating for… Read More
Badoy: The Pied Piper of Death a.k.a. Anakbayan 101
January 15, 2020, 6:02 pm
HOW does a child become a member of the terrorist group, Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army - National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF)? Is there an office one goes to fill out a form that says, “Yes I want to destroy my one precious life, break the hearts of my parents and in… Read More
Ledesma: Intimidating Digong
January 15, 2020, 12:54 pm
HAD it not been for the tinderbox situational condition in Iran and the fury of Taal the classic quotes by Leni Robredo would have hugged the headlines and be another example of absurdity and incoherence that had been the hallmark of the Vice President of the Philippines. I could have just… Read More
From the Mail: Peace talks, anyone?
January 7, 2020, 2:37 pm
By Hermogenes C. Esperon, Jr. MY objections on the peace talks are neither because I am on the hit list of the NPA nor because the New People’s Army (NPA) had attacked an Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) detachment or Municipal Hall where the armed forces or police officers are posted. In… Read More
Ledesma: A war we can win
January 7, 2020, 11:41 am
IT'S a good thing that the discord between the USA and the Philippines is only on account of a member of the Philippine Senate that had been indicted for her involvement in big-time drug trade inside a state penitentiary who the American legislators want to be freed. The other character is a tax… Read More
Ledesma: A sheer act of arrogance
December 27, 2019, 12:21 pm
LUCERNE, Switzerland -- For a country that purports to be the foremost proponent of democracy, it does not stand to reason why the United States of America has the temerity to intrude into the sovereignty of other democratic countries like the Philippines which is about the longest surviving… Read More
Ledesma: Joma's last card
December 25, 2019, 6:12 pm
OUR Armed Forces should learn from the history of war, peace negotiations and treachery. In fact, we need not go far. In the many instances of bilateral truce ostensibly to allow talks to follow, there had been scores of treacherous attacks. Rebellion has become a euphemism to terrorism and our… Read More
Ledesma: The stories behind 87% approval rating of Duterte
December 23, 2019, 10:49 am
MONTREUX, Switzerland -- I was busy taking snapshots of the idyllic city by the lake and posting these on Facebook for my family group when I saw an item that bannered Pulse Asia last quarter approval rating of Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte zooming to an all-time-high at 87%. Three hours earlier I saw… Read More
Ledesma: Sen Bong Go, the Action Man
December 19, 2019, 3:09 pm
POLITICIANS have varied agenda and persuasion. Others got into politics not knowing what to do. Most have a gift of gab others just vocal cords. We see them among those who have stuck in politics like barnacles for they have made it their industry or to protect their industry or their benefactors'… Read More
From the Mail: Joma's exclusive franchise
December 19, 2019, 10:00 am
By Victoria Patria SO, it is very clear now. If Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chair Jose Maria "Joma" Sison is just 'simply a senior political consultant'' of the National Democratic Front (NDF), as he would like to insist about his role in the peace process of the government… Read More
From the Mail: Peace from the concrete standpoint, viewpoint of the people
December 15, 2019, 11:28 pm
By Victoria Patria 1. Peace is indeed beyond simply the absence of war. Attaining true peace by way of implementing social justice is the most sustainable means of gaining peace for our people and our motherland. Social justice is both a legal mandate and moral obligation of our government to the… Read More
Ledesma: Of U2’s Bono, truth and fiction
December 12, 2019, 2:50 pm
PAUL David Hewson, alias “Bono” is an Irish celebrity who made millions trying to sell poverty and human rights by sugar-coating this with emotional blackmail in his concerts worldwide. He is the front act of U2 a rock band. I must admit that I like the message of the few songs I heard which… Read More
