Tag: ferdinand marcos

It’s time Filipinos start recognizing the true builders of their country

February 25, 2014March 13, 2014 benign0 26 Comments

With political airspace in the Philippines currently congested by allegations, accusations, and speculations of thievery flying back and forth between political cliques, factions, and camps, one couldn’t be blamed for losing any remaining semblance of faith in the old idealistic notion that a stint in government office grants one a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to “make a…

Development, Economy, Featured, Government, Politics

Celebration of Ninoy Aquino’s Death Anniversary Continuously Baffles Me

August 24, 2013August 22, 2018 Gogs 73 Comments

“I have been fighting for the truth since Day 1 and thank God I am surviving… I am energized by the truth and truth is God… “ Imelda Marcos on Ninoy Aquino’s assassination. So we “celebrated “the 30th anniversary of the killing of Ninoy Aquino. Hindsight is 20/20 as the great…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Wikileaks exposé: Philippine military generals allegedly in drag during Marcos ‘secret’ party!

April 15, 2013June 6, 2013 benign0 24 Comments

More leaked “secret cables” are coming out revealing more about the underbelly of Philippine society in the 1970s under the rule of then President Ferdinand Marcos. Even as the camp of former Defense Minister, now Senate President, Juan Ponce Enrile battle the re-emergence of anecdotal evidence surrounding the allegedly homicidal past of scion and Senatorial…

Culture, Politics, Society

Making sense of EDSA I, 27 years down the yellow brick road

February 28, 2013September 10, 2013 FallenAngel 3 Comments

In past years, the dates of the EDSA People Power revolution were declared national holidays. This means even workers had the day off. This year, though, it seems only students had the day-off. People with jobs had to go to work. For those who normally going through EDSA, it would mean slugging it out in…

Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

Memories of a Civil War

January 13, 2013January 13, 2013 Mauro Gia Samonte 108 Comments

Kirk was already in late-twenties when he got into the mainstream of the so-called national democratic movement initiated by Jose Maria Sison. From the ranks of mass activists, he was elevated to candidate membership in the Communist Party of the Philippines and after a few months in that status became full-fledged party member. The chaos…

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Media, Politics

Truth or Consequence

January 8, 2013January 8, 2013 Mauro Gia Samonte 94 Comments

Apropos the stream of comments generated by my article SYRIAN WAR: MARCOS IN RETROSPECT, Iâ€™m prompted to think back on Rashomon, that movie by Akira Kurosawa which won the Best Picture Award in the 1950 Berlin Film Festival onward to winning a similar honor in the Cannes Film Festival. Rashomon tells the story of a…

The Syrian Civil War: Marcos in Restrospect

January 7, 2013January 7, 2013 Mauro Gia Samonte 36 Comments

Given the turmoil obtaining in Syria at this hour, Marcos could be the kindest president the Philippines has ever had. What the Philippines was during those four days, February 22 to 25, in 1986 was what had Syria become first quarter of 2011. Decades-old regimes had begun falling across the Middle East either as a…

Politics

PCGG throws in the towel

January 4, 2013January 1, 2014 Virtual Vigilante 60 Comments

My compliments to Andy Bautista for his honest assessment of the PCGG today, in spite of his efforts to revamp the same and revitalize the hunt for the vast remainder of Marcosâ€™ ill-gotten wealth. Like most government agencies in the Philippines, the PCGG has been corrupted to the core and has indeed become the Marcosâ€™…

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Crime, Government