Existential thought: We were born to feel alive
There are certain things I will miss when the lockdown is lifted. Driving on almost empty highways and roads plus a parking spot right next to the entrance of the …
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Manila Times columnist and DLSU professor Antonio Contreras’s intellectually-dishonest apology for being a former Duterte supporter
The Chief Political Analyst’s mea culpa is on exhibit on the Manila Times today in Antonio Contreras’s column “Painful cleansing of a political sin”. Contreras writes of the catharsis he …
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Hard habit to break: The Philippine Opposition’s FAILED five-year effort to paint Duterte as a “tyrant”
The other day, we heard the incumbent Vice-President Leni Robredo make a statement about her being tempted to ask for blanket authority to be the head the government’s pandemic response. …
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Inquirer columnist Winnie Monsod MISLEADS her readers into thinking that women make better national leaders
I have nothing against women. Hell I love women. Period. I worship at the altar of the woman that is her body and soul. That’s how much I love women. …
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Opposition “journalists” dishonestly liken situation in Afghanistan to that of the Philippines
This is a bit of a stretch. Joel Pablo Salud in his piece “It’s perfectly fine to sympathize with the Afghan people, but…” published on Licas News writes that “Afghan …
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US unilateral pullout from Afghanistan a warning to its “allies”: Americans are NOT the good guys
In his Inquirer piece today “Afghanistan: Biden’s ‘Fall of Saigon’ moment”, columnist Richard Javad Heydarian quotes former US ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker who “points out” that “the rot ‘began …
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The United States’ humiliating retreat from Afghanistan is a colossal but UNSURPRISING disaster
A meme that accompanied a tweet issued by The Conversation accompanying a link to their article “As the Taliban returns, 20 years of progress for women looks set to disappear …
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The Yellowtard agenda is to ensure the status quo of OLIGARCH-backed colonial rule persists
Neoliberals like Richard Javad Heydarian are the first to put the blame for the Philippines’ troubles on the so-called “bobotantes“. In his Inquirer column “The foolish myth of ‘bobotante’ voters”, …
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