Indeed, various online platforms became the primary means for fake news peddlers and negative historical revisionists to spread their propaganda. The only way defeat efforts at dismantling the truth is to tirelessly persuade and reeducate Filipinos using reliable and credible source materials, some of which are accessible online.
By DEE AYROSO
By DEE AYROSO
“No compromise, no immunity!” called out the protesters, saying the Marcos family should return its stolen wealth without any condition.
The groups decried that Marcos is not a hero and had amassed $10 billion dollars, plundered the country’s resources and committed massive human rights violations against the people.
By DEE AYROSO
By RENAN ORTIZ
He’s been dead all these years, although the debate over where to finally bury his remains is yet to end. But Ferdinand Marcos, who installed himself as this country’s first, and so far only, fascist, though “constitutional,” dictator in 1972 by placing the entire country under martial law, still casts a long shadow over Philippine…
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld In a performance that would have done his father proud, Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. managed to apologize and not apologize at the same time during a television interview last week (Aug. 26). Marcos Jr. was asked if he was going to apologize for martial law —…
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Forty- two years have passed since Ferdinand Marcos placed the entire country under martial law on Sept. 23, 1972 (he signed Presidential Proclamation 1081 on Sept. 21, implementing it only two days later). But some Filipinos still argue that things were better during the dictatorship, while others…
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Human rights victims of the US-backed Marcos dictatorship, have every reason to feel aggrieved and insulted by President Benigno S. Aquino’s appointment of a police general to head the martial law Human Rights Victims Claims Board (HRVCB). Mr. BS Aquino’s choice of someone in the top leadership of the…