Category: Politics

5 Big Reasons Why President Aquino Will Never Be Able To Vilify Senator Marcos

March 10, 2016March 10, 2016 Grimwald 135 Comments

It certainly seems that President Aquino is really worried about Senator Bongbong Marcos’s ever growing popularity. Indeed, according to some, Senator Marcos’ vice presidency is assured this coming election. Now, truth be told, it’s quite obvious that President Aquino is still stuck in the past and still eyes the Marcoses warily, thinking them responsible for…

Media, Politics

Dynasty activism: Anti-Marcos ‘activists’ disqualify politicians on the basis of their bloodlines!

March 8, 2016 benign0 63 Comments

Look no further than the venerable Fidel Ramos — former Philippine president and Army general extraordinaire. Today, nobody seems to remember him as one of the key implementors of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos’s allegedly atrocious Martial Law regime. Why have people chosen to overlook Ramos’s past as a Martial Law chieftain? Simple. Because after…

Education, Politics

Noynoy, Jojo, Bongbong: Presidents with Clown-like Names are Getting Trendy

March 8, 2016 zaxx 17 Comments

For the first time in Philippine history, we have the strong likelihood of having three presidents in a row (Noynoy Aquino, Jojo Binay, and Bongbong Marcos) that bear something similar. They all have repetitive nicknames that sound more like those of clowns than the stuff of legendary statesmen. Many foreign visitors are actually surprised to…

Culture, Politics, Society

Martial Law Fixation Distracts us from the Real Issues

March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 ChinoF 39 Comments

Recently, Martial Law became the topic because of my alma mater, Ateneo, coming out with a statement claiming that vice-presidentiable Bongbong Marcos is revising history. My question is, what historical revisionism is being done? All Marcos said in effect is, let people decide for themselves what they want to believe. There’s no revisionism in that….

Culture, Politics

An Interview With A Prince: Of Heroes And Monsters Of History

March 5, 2016 Grimwald 6 Comments

This interview is more or less a late response to Charles Englund’s interview with Heneral Luna last year… Good evening ladies and gentlemen, it’s your favorite high-functioning internet troll Thaddeus Grimwald here in the province of Transylvania, Romania in Bran Castle to interview Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia! And without further ado, here comes the…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

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

Gabsboy
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
"Tingala sa langit" "Tingala sa gobyerno" "Tingala sa Amerika" Learned
zzz
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
It's funny how those without contribution run their mouths, seek
benign0
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
Filipinos' tingala mentality. It is WORLD renowned.
Slaves
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
How’s being American puppets going? Maybe if you chose a
Gabsboy
on EDSA 40 years after: Overthrow and “Leftist” Ideals Don’t Work
It would have been absolute cinema had the military coups
Ven
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
Who the hell is prepared for a crisis when any
megget
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
the filipino way is scraping by on the least amount
Gyn
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
This whole thing is not working, and you know it