Category: Politics

Catching up with Mao: on young Filipinos’ rejection of the false ‘spirit of EDSA’

March 5, 2016 Celestino Manrique II 12 Comments

The millennial generation of Filipinos have helped in what 5-10 years ago would have seemed as an impossible PR turnaround by Senator Bongbong Marcos, son of the late “dictator” Ferdinand E. Marcos. The only son of the late president is running for vice president, and several groups have protested what they say is an attempt…

Government, Politics, Society

Is the Ateneo de Manila University engaging in patronage politics by siding with the Aquinos?

March 4, 2016February 1, 2022 Ilda 248 Comments

Teachers should be teaching children how to think, not what to think. There is enough evidence to suggest that some teachers in the Philippines are not teaching children how to use their critical analysis faculties and are not nurturing them to become more independent thinkers. Recent statements made by the members of the Ateneo de…

Education, Politics

Martial Law Crybabies are flooding social media timelines with their loser mentality!

March 4, 2016March 4, 2016 Kate Natividad 59 Comments

Looks like my last article about Martial Law, “Calls for ‘justice’ for the Martial Law ‘victims’ are just fashion statements” hasn’t really sunk in. Worse, all the Martial Law Crybabies in my social media radar seem to have stepped up their idiotic campaign to mis-inform Filipinos about Martial Law. I’m glad someone who was actually…

Culture, Politics

The TRUTH about Martial Law: Young Filipinos no longer believe that it was all bad!

March 3, 2016January 3, 2022 benign0 178 Comments

The war for minds surrounding the 2016 elections now seems to be centred on how the last 30 years of “freedom” that was “won” in 1986 stacks up against the 20-year Martial Law regime of former President Ferdinand Marcos. You can see it in how much “lest we forget” messages that aim to “educate” the…

Crime, Featured, Government, Politics, Society

Waking up from The Matrix that is the Aquino idolatry

March 1, 2016 rsurtida 48 Comments

If there’s one thing I can credit the Aquinos without malice, and with an air of awe and wide-eyed wonder, it would be their successful brainwashing of the majority of the Philippine population into looking at their clan like the second coming of Christ himself. The kind of adoration from people that, even if they’re…

Civics, Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Marcos and the Red Scare: Martial Law in Retrospect

March 1, 2016March 1, 2016 Celestino Manrique II 34 Comments

With the recent 30th Anniversary of the 1986 EDSA “Revolution”, the martial law era of President Ferdinand E. Marcos was once again put in bad light. This, as President BS Aquino again showed the alleged atrocities of the Marcos regime without being able to highlight whatever he was able to achieve. Again, there were morons…

Politics

Filipino millenial voters deserve better than a 1970s-vintage ‘Never Again’ slogan

February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 benign0 33 Comments

The youth is all about the future. This is why the ‘Never Aqain’ rhetoric of the anti-Marcos camp all but fails to resonate amongst the Philippines’ youth. That’s unfortunate for candidates and parties that have their so-called platforms firmly-rooted in the past. Young Filipinos, quite simply, do not care about the past, perhaps, rightly so,…

Politics, Society

At The Home Stretch: It’s Grace Vs. Jojo, Chiz Vs. Bongbong (Part One)

February 29, 2016 P. Farol 12 Comments

I still don’t give that much credence to what the surveys say and so I am basing my guesses on nothing but a lot of rough figuring at this point coupled with whatever strikes me as sensible at the moment. Regardless of what our so called “political analysts” are saying at this point, my method…

Culture, Politics