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Corruption may be eliminated in government if martial law will be declared to replace all officials in the bureaucracy with new ones, President Duterte said Monday. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his sixth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, 2021. (Screenshot /RTVM) The President, in...

On September 21, 1972, Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. delivered a scathing privilege speech on the floor of the Senate warning the nation that President Ferdinand Marcos was on the verge of declaring martial law. It was to be his last speech at the Senate; he was arrested the next day. Unknown to all...

GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES Portrait of the author Dr. Jaime Laya (when he was minister of budget) by national artist Federico Alcuaz So it has been with former President Ferdinand E. Marcos . Every Feb. 25 (EDSA Day), Aug. 29 (Ninoy Day), Sept.11 (birthday), Sept. 21 (Declaration of Martial Law),...