Tag: people power

Malaysian People Power: Aquino gov’t in bed with the corrupt regime of Najib Razak

September 6, 2015 benign0 37 Comments

It was with a terrorist organisation represented by a man using a fake name that the fate of a big chunk of Mindanao was deliberated by the Philippine government. Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III had virtually promised handing over rule of an “autonomous” Bangsamoro “state” in Mindanao to the Moro islamic Liberation Front….

Crime, Government, Politics

Philippine VP Jejomar Binay arguing with the police: What is wrong with this scene?

July 1, 2015July 1, 2015 benign0 15 Comments

There is something fundamentally wrong about an argument between a police officer and the Vice President of the Philippines. It’s bad form. But it is a familiar and normal sight to Filipinos now who have been encouraged since the early 1980s to see policemen as someone to distrust and defy. So quite funny, indeed, how…

Civics, Culture, Government, Society

A Look Back into the Abyss: The Rwandan Genocide

March 22, 2015 Grimwald 12 Comments

There has been much talk about the Aquino family’s “achievements” with some going on and on about how the EDSA Revolution, the so-called “Bloodless Revolution” given power through “People Power”. Well let me tell you now that the more I think about it and compare it with the history of the rest of the world,…

Crime, Culture, Politics, Society

Five Inaccuracies Still Accepted as “Philippine History”

March 20, 2015 MidwayHaven 101 Comments

Some time ago I watched a local documentary that dramatized Ferdinand Magellan’s visit to Mactan Island in 1521. Most Filipinos are aware of the events here: Mactan’s chieftain Lapu-Lapu kills Magellan, and the rest of the natives drive the rest of the Spanish back to their boats. What irked me however was what the actor…

Civics, Culture, Education, Society

5 things that will happen when Mar Roxas becomes president of the Philippines

March 17, 2015 benign0 85 Comments

Will the Philippines become a better country with Mar Roxas as its leader from 2016 through 2022? It remains to be seen, of course and, for now, people can merely speculate. But if recent history can be allowed to afford us a bit of insight on what a Mar Roxas presidency will likely be like,…

Crime, Government, Politics, Society

The #Philippines has become Kaboboan Central under the no-results presidency of Noynoy Aquino

March 3, 2015 Kate Natividad 15 Comments

And so now Filipinos are calling for the ouster of President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino. Well, some say it’s 5 years too late. But, you know, a year is still a lot of time to spread his trademark BS all over the Philippines. And buti sana if it’s just the same ha-ha BS. The massacre…

Culture, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

The Philippines is too big a country for Filipinos to govern on their own

February 26, 2015 benign0 22 Comments

It’s no wonder the government fatally screwed up to the tune of 44 dead Special Action Force police officers last January — and even more baffling that Filipinos are actually shocked that such a monumental foul up could actually occur in the Philippines of all places. The operation involved lots of coordination, up-to-the-minute planning, and…

Development, Society

Why democracy does not work in the Philippines

February 26, 2015February 26, 2015 Ilda 118 Comments

The 1986 EDSA “People Power” revolution has been credited with bringing democracy back to the Philippines. However, three decades after the historic event, it seems majority of Filipinos still do not understand what democracy is about. The system of government is there in principle but Filipinos do not know how to use it properly. Worse,…

Crime, Development, Government, Politics, Society