By Farah G. Decano   OUR country is again suffering a deluge of online fake news after the arrest of former President Rodrigo R. Duterte. Let me enumerate a few: Videos, purporting to be protest rallies against the ex-chief executive’s detention at The Hague,  have been shared by thousands of…

By Farah G. Decano   ON March 11, 2025, former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte was arrested at the Manila International Airport. He was flown out on the same day to the Hague to face the criminal accusations lodged against him before the International Criminal Court (ICC). There is no question…

By Farah G. Decano   WHENEVER a wound gets swollen, it simply means that the affected body part is on its way to healing. This inflammatory stage is a protective process.  However, swelling is not always good.  It can also manifest an infection, a worsening condition. It is interesting to…

By Farah G. Decano   IT is good to be updated of recent Supreme Court rulings. Hence, Atty. Daphne Arriola prepared this below: “Can someone who knowingly broke the fundamental rules of marriage rewrite those same rules to conveniently escape his or her previous marriage obligations to subsequently remarry? In…

By Farah G. Decano   SOME individuals have personally declared February 25 a non-working holiday to commemorate the 1986 EDSA revolution and this is my way to remind us of this historical event. May we remember to sing this song on February 25 and let the Spirit of Edsa live on!…

By Farah G. Decano   WHEN individuals lack sleep, they usually develop black rings around their eyes, sport dishevelled hair, wear unkempt clothes and are likely to be in a catatonic state. They chant unintelligible words and convey incoherent messages. They seem to be lost in their own meanderings and…

By Farah G. Decano   I  could not fathom how much deep pain Vice President Sara Z. Duterte is in right now.  Her father, the former President Rodrigo R. Duterte, is most likely seething in anger while blabbering, “I told you so.” Four years ago, she was merely keen on…

By Farah G. Decano       BELOW is an annotation by Atty. Daphne Areola of a Supreme Court decision penned by Associate Justice Marvic Leonen. With her permission, I thought of sharing this here. “The family is considered an inviolable social institution in the Philippine Constitution, symbolizing its importance in society….

By Farah G. Decano   THE presence of strong opposition must not be feared by our populace. It is when there is no open resistance at all against our government policies that our democracy is in serious danger.  This could only mean that our liberties are restrained by some force…

By Farah G. Decano   TO the world, Spoliarium is Juan Luna’s famous painting that won first place in the 1884 Exposicion National de Bellas Artes in Madrid.  Depicting fallen gladiators being dragged out of the arena by Roman soldiers before spectators coveting the dead warriors’ armor and weapons, the…