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Filipino thought leaders always jump at every opportunity to apply their favorite “people power” frame to personal thoughts on current events that they share. Inquirer columnist Randy David, for one, still believes in people power and expounds on this in his piece “South Korea’s ‘Edsa Tres’ moment” where he highlights a key insight… South Korea’s…
China had the opportunity to colonize most of Southeast Asia if they wanted to. Did they do it? Nope. The Chinese weren’t colonial in their mindset and this is mirrored by their political and social structures during the time of the emperors. It was the Japanese who had plans to compete with the Western powers….
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It’s just a tag just as “reactionary” is a term used by communists to label their enemies. Imagine for a minute a future where the communists had successfully mounted their violent “people’s revolution” and installed their “dictatorship of the proletariat”. Why, the first thing these crooks would do is hunt down these “reactionaries”, drag them…
Read More “Red tagging is not a crime. Communist genocide, on the other hand, is.” »
The movie Maid in Malacanang featured the perspective of the Marcos family on what transpired during the three fateful days that led to then-President Ferdinand Marcos leaving the Philippines. It is definitely a bestseller, raking in hundreds of millions in sales as the movie was being shown in cinemas worldwide. With another Marcos leading the…
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The monumental huffing and puffing over lechon (roast suckling pig) being served during a dinner to celebrate Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s birthday at his home in Davao City seem to have all just emanated from members of the Philippine Opposition. Despite all that shrill noise, this most recent outrage fad they aimed to create seems…
Filipino voters are just so done over by those “helping the poor” ululations that pepper today’s “activist” rhetoric. This is the big lesson the Philippine Opposition need to learn if they are to win in 2022. That sort of rhetoric is simply not consistent with the way Philippine society is structured. You can see it…
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By the end of December this year, there’ll be only 18 months to go before the next national elections in 2022. This means there are only just six months to go, more or less, before campaign season kicks off. As of now, it is still just Leni Robredo that the broader Philippine Opposition see as…
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It’s a bit sad to see Philippine Opposition “activists” and partisans looking longingly overseas as their counterparts in other countries mount impressive mass protests on their city streets. You could almost imagine Filipino “activists” wailing about how they “invented” street “revolutions” back in the 1980s and now have to suffer the indignity of being reduced…