Tag: Mindanao

Philippines in list of countries considered havens for “Islamist terrorist ideologies”

February 17, 2026 benign0 4 Comments

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…

Crime, Religion

Sara Duterte fills the gap in the old Yellowtard-Communist Axis’s campaign rhetoric

February 8, 2025 benign0 12 Comments

Not surprising. The campaign strategy of the Yellowtards for the coming elections 2025 and 2028 is, yet again, that all too familiar “Anyone but [insert demonised person here]!” Nowadays that blank to be filled in the template rhetoric is none other than current Vice President Sara Duterte as Yellowtard “thought leaders” would like everyone to…

Politics

Looking back: Marawi City may have been sacrificed to allow US military interests to remain in the Philippines

May 27, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

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….

History, Politics

A confluence of Islamic extremists’ and Mindanao drug lords’ interests led to the Marawi City siege

May 25, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

My Professor in Communication Arts Marian Pastor Roces is at it again. Mass media and society was the course I took under her back then. As one who is deeply involved in showcasing Muslim-Filipino culture to the world, Roces takes it upon herself to carry the cudgels for the bakwit of Marawi. She writes in…

Business, Crime, Culture

Filipinos too paralysed by partisanism and superstition to implement modern disaster relief

November 2, 2019December 21, 2021 benign0 10 Comments

In the aftermath of yet another devastating “natural” disaster — this time an earthquake hitting southern Mindanao — Filipinos are again exhibiting the lack of decisive and deliberate fast action required to deliver timely relief to its victims. Much of the action being instigated by local governments are the usual appeal for aid from the…

Environment, Science

Duterte tops approval and trust ratings again, Ph Opposition an even bigger laughingstock!

January 8, 2018 benign0 14 Comments

According to the report on Awareness and Trust Ratings of Top National Officials as of December 2017 released by Pulse Asia Research Inc., Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte still enjoys the approval and trust of Filipinos a year and a half into his term. 80 and 82 percent of Filipinos surveyed in the study said they…

Government, Media, Politics

Martial Law “debate”: Does the Constitution serve Filipinos? Or do Filipinos serve the Constitution?

December 13, 2017December 13, 2017 benign0 9 Comments

The trouble with the whole “debate” around the proposed extension of Martial Law is that it’s been infested by “constitutionalists” beholden to the 1987 Yellowtard Constitution. The points that are truly important to the average Filipino have been all but buried under a mountain of ululations drawn from the original (and obsolete) paranoid delusions that…

Charter Change, Politics, The South

A delusion of “peace” led to the destruction of Marawi City

June 13, 2017June 13, 2017 benign0 2 Comments

I don’t want war. All I want is peace. Peace. Peace! A little piece of Poland, a little piece of France A little piece of Portugal and Austria perchance A little slice of Turkey and all that that entails Und then a piece of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales A little nip of Norway, a…

Development, Society, The South