“The Death of Disclosure” reveals how the Ombudsman’s 2012 rules turned the once-powerful SALN into a tool of concealment, proving that transparency in the Philippines did not fade by accident but was buried by policy.
Once a moral safeguard, the SALN has become a ritual of illusion, proof that in Philippine politics, transparency without consequence is not accountability but performance.
Barzaga’s defiance reminds us that reform in the Philippines doesn’t die from corruption but from exhaustion, waiting for citizens who can turn disgust into direction.
In a Congress long dulled by obedience, the rise of “Congressmeow” Kiko Barzaga reveals both the fragility and faint hope of Philippine politics, showing that even within a broken machine, dissent can still make it purr with possibility.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) did not just deny Rodrigo Duterte’s request for interim release. It issued a quiet but unmistakable rebuke; not only...
The ICC’s rejection of Rodrigo Duterte’s release revealed not only his personal reckoning, it also exposed the enduring cycle of power, privilege, and impunity that continues to dominate Philippine governance.
A nation with a full government but no governing, the Philippines now drifts in the emptiness between power and accountability, its institutions intact in form yet hollow in function as corruption thrives and conscience resigns.