• The Duterte family’s criminal enterprise

    The Duterte family’s criminal enterprise

    By TONY LOPEZ Davao’s Duterte family was one grand criminal enterprise. Their main business has been illegal drugs. The family flooded the archipelago with illegal drugs imported in huge volumes with the help of Chinese […]

  • GMA, Gozon, Greatness

    GMA, Gozon, Greatness

    By Tony Lopez Lawyer Felipe L. Gozon celebrated his 85th year on earth Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. Gozon, FLG to executives and subordinates at GMA Network Channel 7 or Henry to friends, is the best […]

  • A Christmas of assassins

    A Christmas of assassins

    By TONY LOPEZ Christmas is supposed to be a time to celebrate the birth of a famous person, the Savior no less, and not a season to kill. After all, the merriest season of the […]

  • The best and worst of times: Ramon S. Ang for president

    The best and worst of times: Ramon S. Ang for president

    By TONY LOPEZ I texted this to my various viber groups: “This month I turn 76. Sadly, the world is not getting any better. Society is not getting polite at all. Nor intelligent. In America […]

  • Duterte 2.0

    Duterte 2.0

    By TONY LOPEZ Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte spent almost ten hours seated before the Senate Blue Ribbon sub-committee hearing on the “Philippine war” on illegal drugs, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. The title alone of […]

  • Fissiparous Sara D.

    Fissiparous Sara D.

    By TONY LOPEZ Disclosure: The D does not stand for deranged or demented, but rather to the first letter of one of the most awesome political brands locally. During a rambling long-promised two-hour press conference […]

  • EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS

    EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS

    By Tony Lopez In Congress’s hallowed halls, Friday evening, Oct. 11, 2024, at half past 8, retired police Lieut. Col. Royina Garma had a metanoia. A changing of her mind, a breakdown, an epiphany. She […]

  • ALICE GUO A SPY

    ALICE GUO A SPY

    By TONY LOPEZ Senate hearings on Philippine offshore gaming operations (POGOs) have shifted their focus from illegal gambling to something overarching and spine-chilling—spying.  Specifically, spying by China. One emerging narrative: Alice Leal Guo, alias Guo […]