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Bendalista politics: Requiem for Yellow politics (opens the original)
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THE color yellow was first associated with the late former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. when he returned to the Philippines in 1983. For context, Aquino was among those arrested immediately after martial law was declared in the country in 1972. At the time of his arrest, Aquino was dining with his sister Lupita at a hotel restaurant in Manila. Aquino (and others) was later brought before the Military Commission 2 for the following criminal charges: – Criminal Case MC-2-19 for illegal posse
âLearning from the past, Bendalo/Bendalista-style (opens the original)
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AMERICAN investigative journalist Sterling Seagrave published in 1988 the book âThe Marcos Dynasty,â just after EDSA forced dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. out of power. Political science and public administration professor Belinda Aquino wrote in 1990 that Seagraveâs book ârepeats accounts that are already well-known.â For the standard of that period, as the dictatorship was still fresh in the memories of Filipinos, the accounts in the book were probably quite well-known. However, the 1
Shooting in the dark (opens the original)
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Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. TWO cases of high-profile school shootings recently happened in the country: on June 22, 2026, at the San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, where three students were killed and 20 others injured; and on Aug. 18, 2026, at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga City, where two people were killed, including the perpetrator, and 23 others were injured. The suspects in the Tacloban shooting are reportedly two minors aged 14 and 15. The
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