We beg to differ.
Back when the Spanish Conquistadors first set foot on Philippine shores and claimed all in the name of God and the Spanish king, it would have looked like this all made sense. Christianity, after all, was the “good” religion and Western civilisation regarded as a necessary “civilising” force. Europeans saw themselves as burdened by a…
The Philippine Opposition are rotting from the inside. This is because their own “thought leaders” are failing to provide sound leadership. Rather than enrich their party ideologies, the premiere “influencers” of the Opposition are leading their members down dead-end pathways. Over the last ten years, the ideological foundations of what had been an almost four-decade…
If there’s any gray matter left with neurons still firing among members of the Yellow Opposition Camp currently led by widely perceived ‘all-talk no-walk’ ‘too fake to be true’ future-ex-“VP” Leni “Lugaw Queen” Robredo, they would by now recognize the large bold letters written in the sky spelling out “POLITICAL SUICIDE!” No less than the…
The whole trouble with any notion of a “Magnitsky Act” regime applied across independent nations is that actually executing its tenets is inherently problematic and will prove extremely difficult. In the case of reported plans of the UK and European Union each implementing their own versions of this Act, the result is likely to be…
Nowadays you’d be hearing a lot of chi chi Western European and North American concepts being bandied around by “thought leaders” of the Opposition. Granted, 1980s relics like “human rights”, “press freedom”, and “people power” had been worn to tatters by the Yellow mob as a result of their habitual use of low-ball approaches to…
Leaders of today’s Philippine Opposition will have us believe that democracy is in crisis — even in decline (horrors!) — and, as such, heralding a coming era of doom and gloom for the nation in the coming years. They, of course, attribute this unfortunate prognosis to the government of President Rodrigo Duterte who, since Day…
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The rash of SEA Games fails could have been addressed better. Thing is, I thought the cauldron was the last issue against the SEA Games but I was surprised that more came to light and still more will come. For some reason, I keep hearing Vice Ganda’s voice whenever I re-read Phisgoc chair and House…
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Things have been moving too fast in Philippine politics lately that it’s hard to keep up. I have been promising myself I would write about current Vice President Leonor “Leni” Robredo’s relentless attacks on the government – a government she is a part of, but before I had a chance to do it, President Rodrigo…
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