Category: History

Donald Trump’s rallying cry is now “Fight!” — just like that of the Yellowtards

July 16, 2024 benign0 7 Comments

In an ironic twist of fate, former United States president Donald Trump is now basking in the limelight following his survival of an assassination attempt over the weekend. The Colonial Master’s politics now mirrors the necropolitics of its Mini-Me in southeast Asia — except that the beneficiary of the violence lived to fight on. CNN…

History, Politics

Why Filipinos are More Enamored with America than with China

June 30, 2024July 1, 2024 Hector Gamboa 5 Comments

It was reported that the Chinese Embassy in Manila has accused the United States (US) of stoking tensions in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Chinese Embassy officials further claimed that the US is doing this to advance its own geopolitical interest in the region. Of course, right on cue, Duterte sycophants, who are likened to…

Culture, Economy, History, Politics, Science

On its “Independence Day”, the Philippines remains a sad and CONFUSED colony

June 12, 2024June 12, 2024 benign0 7 Comments

Today, the 12th of June, is the Philippines’ imagined “Independence Day” — the day when she unilaterally declared herself “independent” of her Spanish colonial master. That was not to be for long as history would go on to reveal. Way above Filipinos’ pointed heads as their “revolutionaries” patted themselves on their backs, Spain and the…

History, Politics, Society

Is the Philippines the Looming Ukraine of Asia?

June 7, 2024 Ramon Ortoll 20 Comments

Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos welcomed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a one-day visit to the Philippines after he spoke at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore which Marcos attended last week as the keynote speaker. The visit drew a comparison at the situation of Ukraine, which is seen by geopolitical analysts as engaged in a…

History, Politics

Philippine “nationalism” torn by Filipino partisans’ rabid loyalties to China and America

May 19, 2024 Ramon Ortoll 7 Comments

Is the face of the new nationalism against China also a false one? The question should be asked and answered because as Randy David stated in his Inquirer column “Against China: The face of a new nationalism”, his generation’s nationalist bent was directed against the US and not China. “I never thought there would come…

History

The Real Pawns

April 1, 2024April 3, 2024 Hector Gamboa 8 Comments

The recent scandal that shook the almighty kingdom of Duterteland seems to have triggered a slew of defensive social media posts from Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s (FPRRD) sycophants. As recent news coverage has shown, FPRRD’s former spokesman Atty. Harry Roque revealed that FPRRD accepted a “gentleman’s agreement” with Beijing, when he was still president,…

The Philippines as the Pariah in ASEAN

January 20, 2024 Ramon Ortoll 7 Comments

The administration of President Bongbong Marcos is about to mark its second year in office but it still has not been able to make much headway solving the problems Filipinos face in their daily lives. Rice prices, for example, continue to accelerate with the cheapest at around P50.00 per kg, despite the supposed bumper crop…

Development, History

Yet another anti-jeepney article: How Manila’s iconic Tranvia system was relegated to a mere historical footnote by Filipino “activists”

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 benign0 10 Comments

Indeed. We’ve written so many of them already, and yet here I am writing yet another one. To be fair, writing anti-jeepney articles is one of the easiest things. For some background on our proud tradition of anti-jeepney, check out this little animated GIF… This animated GIF was hand-crafted by Yours Truly way back in…

Development, History