Magdalo sees greater challenges with Arroyo back in power
15 years ago at the Oakwood Hotel in Makati.(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) Related article: https://ph.news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-inbox/magdalo-10-years-oakwood-224739924.html When Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV,...
View ArticleMagdalo: No affiliation with Maute
Update May 31, 2017: Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV “During the security briefing, I asked Sec. Lorenzana based on their intel reports, if I or the Magdalo group is linked in any way with the Maute? He...
View ArticleAlejano to Duterte: ‘May I borrow your jetski?’
Pres. Duterte takes a swipe at critics before Filipino community in Myanmar, March 19, 2017. Malacanang photo by Marcelino Pascua. Not surprisingly, President Duterte resorted to incoherent rant when...
View ArticleGame changers: SC decision on Poe and AMLC report on Binay
Grace Poe in San Pablo cityNext week’s surveys should give us a clearer picture of the sentiments of the Filipino voters. By then, we would know whose campaign is struggling from collapsing and whose...
View ArticleHinihintay ang paglaya ni Trillanes
Pinakita sa akin ng aking kaibigang si Pamsy Tioseco, public relations officer ni Sen. Loren Legarda, ang magandang Christmas decoration sa pintuan ng opisina ni Senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV sa...
View ArticleMother Lily, Trillanes at Magdalo
Sen. Sonny Trillanes and wife, Arlene with Mother Lily. Nakakatuwa si Mother Lily Monteverde sa kanyang “thank you lunch” noong Biyernes para kay Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV at sa Magdalo partylist at...
View ArticleTrillanes: “Mla Pen happened for a higher reason that is still unfolding”
Some “survivors” of what media calls the Nov. 29, 2007 “Manila Peninsula siege” got together with Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV (no, not at the Manila Pen). Yesterday’s reunion had an added significance in...
View ArticleBem and Bam’s love story
I’m going to THE WEDDING today. Not the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in Westminster Abbey. It’s the wedding of Bem Pontejos and Bam Frangue, two wonderful people I know. It will be...
View ArticleThe honor of rebelling against a corrupt government
President Aquino’s grant of amnesty to members of the military who stood up against Gloria Arroyo’s misuse and abuse of presidential powers is a fulfillment of his promise to reshape Philippine...
View ArticleTrillanes applies for amnesty, has no regrets
By Ryan Chua, ABS-CBN News “Let me be clear. We admit guilt as far as rising up against the most corrupt president this country ever had,” he said. “Proudly.” – Trillanes Reiterating that they have no...
View ArticleMagdalo struggles with life in the “outside world”
By Tessa Jamandre VERA Files First day in Senate office, Dec. 23, 2010Freedom didn’t come easy for the Magdalo soldiers, but when it did, came the other struggle to break free from habits forced by...
View ArticleUnang Pasko ng malayang Magdalo
Mla Pen, Dec. 11, 2010.Three years ago (On Nov 29, 2007) we were all on these very steps of the Manila Pen under stressful circumstances. The attire and the smiles reflect the healing with the passage...
View ArticleA Christmas tribute to Trillanes
by Harry Roque I was ambivalent when I first saw Antonio Trillanes IV on television. But there he was, a very young man, taking a clear and unequivocal stand against evil in government. My ambivalence...
View ArticlePromulgation on Oakwood ‘coup’ deferred indefinitely
Hopes to finally be able to perform duty in the Senate next yearJudge Oscar Pimentel of Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 148 today (Dec 16) deferred the promulgation on the 2003 Oakwood coup d’etat...
View ArticleBuhay Brig
This video was a project by Ensign Armand Pontejos for his master’s class at the University of the Philippines (Open University) while he was in detention. This was made in 2006:
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