Opinion

(Conclusion)

(The first part of the speech of former Defense Secretary Gilberto C. Teodoro, the Lakas-Kampi CMD standard-bearer for president of the Philippines, appeared in this space yesterday.)

By Elmer A. Ordoñez

We in the US Embassy are here to protect American interests. We expect your officials to protect your own interests.”—US Ambassador Charles Bohlen “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”—Cassius in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

By Efren L. Danao

My last column, “Case vs. Villar a goner,” was proved correct by the filing of a resolution by 12 senators seeking to clear Villar of any wrongdoing in the C-5 road extension project. With only 23 incumbent senators, including Sen. Antonio Trillanes who could not vote on the floor, there is no way that the Senate Committee of the Whole could get any majority decision against Villar.

By Anabelle E. Plantilla

The Haribon Foundation strongly supports the indigenous peoples and affected communities on Mindoro Island in their struggle to save and protect the environment and their cultural heritage. We stand as one with the Mangyans and community leaders (farmers, women, church leaders and LGU officials) from Mindoro who have been in an indefinite hunger strike since November 17 to protest against mining operations in Mindoro which is identified as one of the top ten priority conservation areas in the country because of the urgency of protecting and conserving biological treasures from the various threats imposed on them, such as habitat destruction, hunting and deforestation.