Tag: communism

2022 elections a chance for Filipinos to remove communist vermin from public office

October 24, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 5 Comments

Joel Pablo Salud is one of my “favorite” editors in-chief, the other being his mentor Inday Espina Varona. He is very proud of his lack of formal education, yet constantly on the prowl for validation with social media postings of his vast book collection. He asks in his latest PhilSTAR piece: What would you ask…

Crime, Politics

Opposition infighting cancelling out Isko Moreno and Leni Robredo camps, paving the way for either a Marcos or Lacson win

October 20, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

Too much drama in the Opposition camp. The way Boo Chanco tells it in his PhilSTAR piece “Keep focused” smacks of historical revisionism. According to Chanco, the Reds “tricked” Cory into releasing them after she “ousted” Marcos. He should he call them out for what they really are — political opportunists prostituting their organizations. Their…

History, Politics

Hope for a “united” Opposition collapses amid bickering between commies and Yellowtards

October 17, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 10 Comments

“We’re being told to let Leni lead. It’s time to make sure Liberals and its allies do it first.” Thus goes Kat Stuart-Santiago’s call to action in her blog post “Leni and the Liberals”. “There is no reason to believe in claims of unity and democracy when it doesn’t include the activists on whose lives…

Politics

UP academic Clarita Carlos: convene a team of scholars to SCIENTIFICALLY assess The Marcos Years

September 19, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 33 Comments

This is an excellent proposal by one of the few objective academicians of the University of the Philippines, retired political science professor Clarita Carlos. On a Facebook post, she articulates her idea of convening a team of scholars to mount a “scientific” evaluation of the 21 years that Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines… Quite troubling…

History, Politics

PhilSTAR journalist Joel Pablo Salud wants F. Sionil Jose’s national artist distinction REVOKED just because their opinions differ

August 26, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 7 Comments

Fair-weather friendship is what PhilSTAR lifestyle writer Joel Pablo Salud exhibits in his recent Facebook post where, to highlight how close a friend he was to national artist F. Sionil Jose, writes about how he had “spent a night in his home in QC, tasted Tita Tessie’s cooking, and enjoyed untold number of hours listening…

Media

#SONA2021 “response” issued by @IBONFoundation sounds like a shrill girly temper tantrum

July 27, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The problem with leftist-militant groups is they shoot a shotgun to hit all the targets and end up shooting themselves in the foot instead. I wonder how Sonny Africa, Executive Director of the leftist “think tank” IBON Foundation, will run the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) in the unlikely event he’s appointed as its chief?…

Economy

Communists like @TonyoCruz and their fronts like @IBONFoundation push AYUDA nga-nga culture

July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Where is the substance in the drivel Ka Tonyo Cruz writes? Numbers he cited in his Manila Bulletin piece “P10,000 aid for all is needed — and possible” comes from none other than his comrade IBON Foundation Executive Director Sonny Africa. That biased “source” makes everything he writes suspect from the very beginning. Predictably he…

Culture, Government, Society

Blame on Marcos and, now, Duterte for the Philippines’ underdevelopment is a LIE

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 9 Comments

I keep wondering why everything that is wrong with this country is blamed on former President Ferdinand Marcos and current President Rodrigo Duterte and not the political bloc that was in power for thirty years since 1986. Marcos was in power for twenty-one. Duterte six. That’s a total of twenty-seven. You don’t need to have…

Development, Economy