We beg to differ.
National artist for literature F. Sionil Jose has been copping a lot of flak for his audacity in stating that Maria Ressa does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. He has been maligned by prominent personalities and “thought leaders” of the Opposition. Some of them actually have questionable provenances with regard to their prominence. These…
If there is anything that encapsulates just about all of what the Opposition has to argue against the recently-announced candidacy of former President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., it is the headline given to this Rappler piece authored by Lian Buan: “Dictator’s son Bongbong Marcos to run for president in 2022”. Being an avowed “social news…
This is an excellent proposal by one of the few objective academicians of the University of the Philippines, retired political science professor Clarita Carlos. On a Facebook post, she articulates her idea of convening a team of scholars to mount a “scientific” evaluation of the 21 years that Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines… Quite troubling…
Is the Ateneo de Manila Martial Law Museum so sacred as to be above any challenge to its legitimacy as an authority on what really happened over the period the late Ferdinand Marcos was president of the Philippines? Apparently so. In a tweet issued today, Manila Times columnist and former ambassador Bobi Tiglao, revealed that…
Those who don’t read history, are condemned to repeat it. This is the curse bedeviling the Philippines. Historical revisionism. It wasn’t until Teodoro Agoncillo wrote the History of the Filipino People did we become aware of the betrayals of the leaders of the Philippine Revolution. Emilio Aguinaldo ordering the murder of Andres Bonifacio and Antonio…
President Rodrigo Duterte’s niece Nuelle Duterte has, for several years now, been used as an Opposition poster girl by the Philippines’ Big Corporate Media organisations because she reportedly tells people she meets in New York (where she works as a “psychiatrist”) that her famous uncle “kills people”. In a recent Facebook post, Nuelle explores the…
Why does the rise of Ashraf Ghani to President of US-occupied Afghanistan in 2014, sound so familiar? This is because it has been the mold by which the US has implemented its hegemony. A report published that December by European Union electoral observers concluded that there had indeed been rampant fraud in the June [2014]…
National artist F. Sionil Jose’s PhilSTAR piece today, “Remembering Ninoy”, best sums up Ninoy Aquino who, on this day in 1983, was assassinated. Jose recalls, “Immediately after EDSA I, Lt. Victor Corpuz saw me; he confirmed that Ninoy was really involved with the New People’s Army.” And so, to this very day we don’t know…