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The Political Mirror

What's The Political Mirror? It is a column that comes out every Wednesday and Saturday tackling political issues and politics in general, analyzing the same by looking at ourselves, our communities, and our government - and as in mirroring, reflecting on our past, our mistakes, our follies, and our future.


The Political Mirror

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Commentaries and Truth Telling

I seldom comment on newspaper columns believing that opinion makers must be given leeway to say their piece. They are after all supposed to give their personal take on issues confronting the country.

But I do draw the line when I find my name mentioned in a column especially when things are attributed to me without the benefit of verification.



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Angelo Reyes: Doing the Unthinkable

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I accompanied incoming UP President Fred Pascual to Karen Davila’s top rating program Head Start at the ANC studios yesterday morning. While Karen was asking President Pascual about commercialization of education and the controversies surrounding the search for the new UP Diliman chancellor, people in the newsroom started to get animated as text messages and radio reports started to come in saying that former Chief of Staff Angelo Reyes has been shot and was in the emergency room of the Quirino Hospital.



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Corruption Perceptions

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Transparency International (TI) has been releasing its yearly Corruption Perception Index as a tool to measure the degree to which public sector corruption is perceived in countries all over the world.



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Dateline Bangkok: Conditional Cash Transfers and Corruption, Part II

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She also agreed with the critics of the program that poorly designed and implemented CCT programs open vast opportunities for corruption, and fighting corruption must go hand-in-hand with CCT and MDG interventions.



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