Category: Politics

Lessons from history about insurgency in the Philippines

May 29, 2017 FallenAngel 23 Comments

Insurgency, rebellion, and separatist movements (Note: I will use these three terms interchangeably.) have always been part and parcel of Philippine history. In this regard, it is no different from other countries and their histories. Successive Philippine governments have had to deal with several of these movements. In the spotlight are the Communist Party of…

Politics, Society, The South

Imperial Manila ‘experts’ see Martial Law as a bigger enemy than Islamic terrorism

May 28, 2017 benign0 37 Comments

If there is anything that can be gleaned from the way Filipinos have so far responded to the crisis in Marawi, it is that Filipinos remain their own worst enemy. Rather than see the terrorists linked to the Islamic State overrunning Marawi City as the bigger enemy, many have, instead, lashed out at the more…

Politics, Religion, Society, The South

Martial Law Rice and Nuts

May 26, 2017May 27, 2017 Hector Gamboa 7 Comments

As soon as President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao, a political attack dog and hordes of leftist martial law crybabies came out and quickly denounced the declaration. Senator Antonio Trillanes IV says Duterte’s declaration is baseless and that it should have just been localized in Marawi City instead of the entire island of…

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Government, Politics

How one becomes a Yellowtard

May 16, 2017 benign0 23 Comments

A person becomes a Yellowtard not because he is better or smarter than all the rest but because he prefers to allow popular but obsolete clique sentiment to hijack his better thinking faculties. Indeed, it seems too much of the “right” kind of education could be the culprit behind the scourge of Yellowtard disease. What…

Culture, Politics, Society

The hypocrisy of condemning Mocha Uson’s appointment to the Duterte government

May 12, 2017May 12, 2017 FallenAngel 4 Comments

Mocha Uson elicits a consistently predictable reaction from President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics: disdain. No surprise then that her appointment as part of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) has kept the social media class busy for a while now. The main criticism from the “decent” crowd – private citizens and members of mainstream media included…

Government, Politics, Society

Is the Duterte presidency fated to be a wasted opportunity?

May 7, 2017May 8, 2017 FallenAngel 44 Comments

What happens if President Rodrigo Duterte is toppled? Easy. Things revert to the status quo. The Liberal Party (LP) – the no-results, hypocritically decent, group of politicians whom Filipinos have had to bear with for the past thirty years – will be back in power. The drug problem, which has been the cornerstone of Duterte’s…

Crime, Culture, Economy, Politics

Critics of Duterte’s war on drugs are all talk but offer no alternative solutions to solving the drug problem

May 6, 2017May 6, 2017 Ilda 55 Comments

Do the members of the Philippine Liberal Party and their supporters who are against President Rodrigo Duterte’s “drug war” have a better alternative to solving the drug problem in the country? It doesn’t look like they do. They make a lot of noise and rabidly criticise the government’s efforts to stamp out the illegal drug…

Crime, Politics

The lynching of Renato Corona: 2012 goes down in Philippine history as a year of infamy

April 30, 2017 benign0 36 Comments

On one hand, it is quite gratifying to see some folks belatedly realising the error in their ways when, in 2012, they joined the Moron Bandwagon to vilify then Chief Justice Renato Corona as he bravely stood before the Senate Impeachment “Court”. But on the other, it is difficult to forgive people in general who,…

Politics, Society

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