Commentary
Tomorrow or early evening today, there will be more or less 50,000 PNP personnel and law enforcers to be fielded around the voting precincts and centers. In problematic or “priority areas,” especially those that traditionally mix violence with politics, the military deterrence is being conjured.…
The more the so-called “mid-term” election becomes nearer in date and observance, the more “songs” vows, promises, commitments — are sung/done by the political candidates not only in their many and different campaign stories but also in their tri-media abundant self-advertisements. Needless to say, such…
LONDON — Galvanized by the Arab spring, Eritreans in exile in Europe are mobilizing against the authoritarian regime of President Issaias Afeworki with a new tool — the humble telephone. Every week, members of the diaspora make hundreds or even thousands of automated calls to…
ISLAMABAD — In a bustling market in a middle-class district of Islamabad, Raja Mehran rallies his friends as they prepare to campaign door-to-door for Pakistan’s general election on Saturday. The wiry 22-year-old is one of an estimated 25 million voters aged under 30 who are…
The Monday election has the potential of coming out as being more anarchic than other previous elections and the first automated polls failure (yes, Virginia, the 2010 presidential poll results were questionable and fraudulent) as a result of the host of problems that remains unresolved…
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Comelec-voted senators
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Killing his own bosses
No one need to be an expert on economy to determine that bul…
Bangladeshi volunteers haunted…
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Blustering his way through
Sixto Brillantes and his commissioners in the poll body just…
Presidential limbo in Algeria …
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Keep their dirty hands off…
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KIEV — The sculpture shows two elderly people hugging each o…