Rigoberto D. Tiglao

6 days ago | manilatimes.net | Rigoberto D. Tiglao

THIS P28.5 billion boon was ordered to be paid to the Hacienda Luisita Inc. of the Cojuangco clan in an April 25, 2025 decision by the Court of Appeals Special Twelfth Division, as payment for having their 4,500-hectare sugar plantation placed under agrarian reform in 1989.

1 week ago | manilatimes.net | Rigoberto D. Tiglao

THERE'S a propaganda blitz claiming that the majority of Filipinos want the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte. This is fake news: the polls they cite were deliberately manipulated and flawed. The reality is that most Filipinos are uninterested in or do not understand what "impeachment" means, with the majority still having much trust in Sara.

1 week ago | manilatimes.net | Rigoberto D. Tiglao

IT's an incontrovertible fact that, as the political scientist John Mearsheimer, co-author of the landmark book, "The Israel Lobby," that exposed the Jewish hold on the US political elite, put it, "Israel and the US are joined at the hip."Without US funds of $310 billion (inflation-adjusted, the bulk of it military) since its founding in 1948, Israel is nothing but a desert with pockets of oasis occupied by Jews mostly from Eastern Europe.

1 week ago | manilatimes.net | Rigoberto D. Tiglao

HOW can it be a real impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte when the 215 members of what is really the House of Political Prostitutes were bribed by Speaker Martin Romualdez, with their districts given P150 million each in the form of dole-outs for their constituents and small infrastructure projects vulnerable to corruption?

2 weeks ago | manilatimes.net | Rigoberto D. Tiglao

IT is sickening, yet revealing of their agenda, that not a few commentators have been striving to disseminate a false picture that there is a groundswell of support for the removal of Vice President Sara Duterte from office.