• TIME TO ACT, PBBM

    TIME TO ACT, PBBM

    By TONY LOPEZ This 2026 is a watershed year for President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. (BBM), a decisive year of either great achievements or great disappointments, an annus mirabilis or an annus horribilis. This […]

  • THE NEW NAIA 2026

    THE NEW NAIA 2026

    By TONY LOPEZ In 2025, Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) handled 52.02 million passengers, a new high and breaking the previous record of 50.1 million chalked up in 2024, also scored under the new airport […]

  • US interest in Asia: Business, not war

    US interest in Asia: Business, not war

    By TONY LOPEZ The Philippines and the US are close allies.  That’s the theory.  The Philippines is the only and oldest defense and treaty ally of the US in Asia.    Under the Mutual Defense Treaty […]

  • Suicide by the dynasties

    Suicide by the dynasties

    By TONY LOPEZ How do you tell the clans that control 70% of Congress to go, kill themselves? And how do you tell the families that control 80% of all local governments to go drown […]

  • SC stops robbery

    SC stops robbery

    By TONY LOPEZ On Dec. 5, 2025, the Supreme Court announced that by a unanimous decision, it has ordered the Department of Finance (DOF) to return asap the P60 billion Ralph Recto dragooned from the […]

  • Catharsis

    Catharsis

    By TONY LOPEZ I am not an economist.   I have had exposure in economics.  I am a bachelor of literature, major in journalism, magna cum laude, but my electives in college were economics, banking, and […]

  • Strength behind the calm demeanor

    Strength behind the calm demeanor

    The 17th President and Chief Executive has done what the 16 presidents before him could not—expose the largest act of corruption ever, the flood-gate (flood control scam+Watergate) where over P1 trillion was looted by corrupt […]

  • No hope for PAGASA?

    No hope for PAGASA?

    By Tony Lopez In one week, two powerful typhoons devastated half of the Philippine archipelago of 7,600 islands. The first, Tropical Cyclone Tino or Kalmaegi to non-Filipinos, entered Philippine territory on Nov. 2, and dropped […]