Posts by tag: ZTE-NBN scandal

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) is utterly disappointed with the Supreme Court�s decision upholding the principle of executive privilege in…

The Black and White Movement on Cardinal Vidal: “There is a difference between critical collaboration, which allows prelates to receive state funds while preaching political moderation from the pulpit, and being a puppet of the president.”

Minority Leader Aquilino �Nene� Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) today said the piles of testimonial and documentary evidence on the anomalous…

Joey de Venecia III, the first whistleblower in the ZTE scandal, regrets that his father, former House speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., had to pay a steep political price for his expos�. �Maybe it was his salvation,� Joey says of his father’ ouster as House speaker. But, Joey says, their relationship has never been better.

Bringing the issue to the Courts is a legal trap The NUPL condemns Pres. Gloria Arroyo’s use of legal institutions…

NEWS ANALYSIS The �critical mass� that can lead to the resignation of President Arroyo can only rise from the diverse groups and personalities agreeing who or what will replace the widely discredited president.

Did the Philippines surrender to China its claim over the Spratlys islands? Such a surrender, the suspicion goes, is seen as the reason why Beijing is showering Manila with billions of loans, several of which are hounded by allegations of corruption.

Ibon said that anomalous infrastructure projects, such as the national broadband network (NBN) funded by Chinese loans and is now under Senate inquiry, is an example of how the country�s foreign aid system is easily subverted by political influence-peddling.

“We are former senior government officials who have served the government in the administrations of Presidents Marcos, Aquino, Ramos, Estrada and Arroyo. Today we see how the institutions of government are being manipulated, weakened, and corrupted.”