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Most Filipinos don’t realize that our country is awash in wasted opportunities since it’s so-called independence from the Americans. The Americans were responsible for the destruction of infrastructure built during the 300 years of Spanish colonization most of which was lost during World War II. With Japan as its new pawn after the war, the…
Who is winning the high-stakes Public Relations (PR) War that determines which of the Philippines’ big feudal clans will bag control of the Philippine government and, following that, access to all the multi-billion peso goodies that can be scraped off the Philippine economy over the next few years? Will it be the Marcostards? Will it…
Such is the “high stakes” exercise this impeachment “trial” of Vice President Sara Duterte is made out to be. Yet its entire outcome — the anticipated “verdict” of this “trial” a long way down the track (if it ever does transpire) — is hinged on the quality of judgment to be passed by the so-called…
While the rest of the peoples of the world grapple with the big issues — many of them existential — the Philippines’ citizenry are subject to the ongoing feudal machinations of its ruling oligarchs. Indeed, the Philippine Senate is basically that — a chamber composed of people who are mostly members of the same tony…
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The trouble with the Philippines is that its political discourse is cursed with a lopsided ideological spectrum. There is a “far left” camp consisting of the commies, their terrorist “New People’s Army”, and the so-called Makabayan bloc of front organisations that orbit them. There is also a swathe of confused centre-left to centre-right camps that…
Inquirer columnist Randy David weighs in on the Toboso massacre in his piece “The other tasks of the university”. What the leftist-militant idiots are now calling a “massacre” is what the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) described as an encounter with elements of the New People’s Army (NPA), the terrorist arm of the Communist…
Determinism is the idea that people’s lives are already preset and unchangeable before they are born. Their thoughts, their behavior, their likes and dislikes, and whether they are good or evil have already been determined by external forces, and their own actions cannot change anything. They cannot “change.” Some ideologies, traditions, or religions apply deterministic…
What can be a more perfect leader for Filipinos than the cross-dressing Filipino showbiz star Vice Ganda. Indeed, democracy, is the system of government that just keeps on giving. If Vice Ganda at least runs for — much more, wins — the presidency, Filipinos will be given the gift of clarity around just how stupid…
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