We beg to differ.
A post on social media platform X issued by media organisation Al Jazeera shows what seems to be a “report” on the ongoing drama in the Philippine Senate surrounding embattled Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa. There were reports of gunfire last night in the Senate building as dela Rosa attempted to flee arresting officers acting…
The trouble with the Philippines is that its political discourse is cursed with a lopsided ideological spectrum. There is a “far left” camp consisting of the commies, their terrorist “New People’s Army”, and the so-called Makabayan bloc of front organisations that orbit them. There is also a swathe of confused centre-left to centre-right camps that…
Inquirer columnist Randy David weighs in on the Toboso massacre in his piece “The other tasks of the university”. What the leftist-militant idiots are now calling a “massacre” is what the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) described as an encounter with elements of the New People’s Army (NPA), the terrorist arm of the Communist…
According to the moral framework of woke and leftist people, the “oppressed” are never guilty of any crime. Guilt is fixed on the “oppressors” and their descendants and is based on race and even one’s position in the economic order. This is in stark contrast to the Judeo-Christian tradition where rape and murder, for example,…
Read More “To the woke mind, the “oppressed” are NEVER guilty of rape and murder” »
Once again, the Philippines finds itself unprepared in the midst of supply chain shocks rippling from the war waged against Iran by the United States and Israel. A foolish dependence on imported fuel and the remittances from workers in the Middle East, as well as spiralling foreign exchange rates now work in confluence to put…
Read More “The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”” »
The Philippines is already navigating choppy economic waters. Fuel prices are spiking on the back of rising tensions from the US-Iran conflict, and the threat of a broader economic slowdown is no longer hypothetical. The last thing the country needs right now is to hand the Financial Action Task Force a reason to put it…
Read More “Casino Operator Schemes to Control AMLC… What?!” »
As expected, following the attack over the weekend mounted by a joint United States and Israel force on Iran resulting in the deaths of senior leaders of their Islamic regime including its “supreme leader” the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left-of-centre elements are crying over the breakdown of “international law”. Writing for The Conversation, Shannon Brincat and…
This picture sums up what became of the EDSA Revolution’s Legacy 40 years hence. It also demonstrates the saying, “there are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests.” (attributed to Lord Palmerston of the UK) Those who are noisy on social media and tend to be lumped with the “dilawan” side of politics will…
Read More “EDSA 40 years after: Overthrow and “Leftist” Ideals Don’t Work” »