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As expected, following the attack over the weekend mounted by a joint United States and Israel force on Iran resulting in the deaths of senior leaders of their Islamic regime including its “supreme leader” the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left-of-centre elements are crying over the breakdown of “international law”. Writing for The Conversation, Shannon Brincat and…
As if the bad reputation copped by the Philippines for its world-renowned institutionalised corruption weren’t enough, the country has also been flagged as one of a number of countries “considered havens for ‘Islamist terrorist ideologies’.” Reports of “leaked” policy papers formulated under the office of former Australian Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley “would have planned…
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As Filipinos generally see the world through the lens of their renowned national self-absorption (“Oh no! How many OFWs will be impacted by the events in Israel!”), it is probably best that recent events in the Middle East be processed through the lens of what all that means for the Philippines. This is easy. The…
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If there is one event that sent chilling shockwaves to the whole world in 2022, aside from the Russian special military operations in Ukraine and the end of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign as the head of state of the United Kingdom, it would definitely be the assassination of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe….
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A disturbing image was tweeted by Al Jazeera correspondent Jameela Alindogan today showing what appears to be a heavily-armed fighter of the Islamic terrorist group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) posing next to a campaign poster of Opposition Yellowtard candidate and “vice president” Leni Robredo. It would indeed be interesting to understand what exactly…
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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 under President Trump when he authorized negotiations between the US and the Taliban without the Afghan government in the room,’ which was ‘a huge demoralizing…
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 overnight” goes like this: “The world must not look away as the Taliban sexually enslaves women and girls.” Sad as the prospect of what the…
The tangled web of the Philippine police and military which links the latter to criminal gangs and other lawless elements has long been whispered about specially in the provinces where it’s mostly an open secret. Friends who have close friends whose relatives are officers in the police and military establishments have informally confirmed these links….