Inquirer and Akbayan are ruining Philippine international relations
If there is one thing I hate about President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent tirade in which he threatened to cut ties with the European Union and the United Nations is he …
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F U to the EU, says Duterte
So anti-Duterte Senator Leila De Lima has been ousted as the chairman of the Senate Justice Committee. Although the main reasons why De Lima’s colleagues removed the chairmanship from her …
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#Brexit is an opportunity for Britain to re-learn what it means to be British
Democracy is a bitch when it doesn’t go your way. That’s pretty much the sentiment New Age mouthpieces in corporate media and the broader community of hipsters who parrot the …
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Cheer up Filipinos, the only way for the Philippines to go is up!
Very illuminating, all the comments I got from my previous article Pabebe Girl Power highlights Filipinos’ confusion: Are we individualists or collectivists?! 🙂 I do agree, it’s a double-edged sword …
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Lessons from Greece: Can Third World nations really afford ‘democratic’ governments?
You can almost hear Robin Leach snootily addressing his audience in the popular 1980s TV show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous when you read this: See that demoractic government? …
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Crisis in Greece: Would you lend money to a person who can’t pay?
Lots of debate around who is the victim and who is the bad guy in Europe nowadays thanks to the financial crisis gripping Greece and, as a consequence, the rest …
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We must learn from Greece and stop relying on the government to save us
A friend of mine who just came back from a three-week holiday in Greece confirmed what we have been reading in the news about how a lot of the banks …
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The Greek financial crisis is really a simple issue
The financial crisis gripping Greece is really not that complicated. Greece opted to join the Eurozone and replace its local currency, the drachma, with the euro in 2001. Its government …
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