Five Routes to the Presidency in the Philippines
With Mayor Rody Duterte’s trail-blazing ascent to the presidency, we may have to rewrite the books on the ins and outs of politics in the country. He was from a marginalized region …
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Senator Bongbong Marcos was the crowd favorite at the Vice Presidential Debates #PiliPinasDebates2016
The one and only Vice Presidential Debates hosted by CNN Philippines became mostly about Senator Bongbong Marcos. If not for Marcos Jr, the debates would have been boring. It seems …
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Philippine Elections: Feudal “Democracy” At Its Most Spectacular
With more or less a month to go before the May 2016 Philippine general elections, it’s sincerely hoped that we Filipinos would now on an individual level have some sort …
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#EDSA30: What I’ve seen, heard and, now, think after 30 years
(Note: This post is actually meant to be just a comment to Mike Portes’s latest article. But since it is long, I opted to post is as an article. And I wrote …
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Millions of pesos stolen in pork scam; now billions could be stolen under the BBL
The recently published report from the Commission on Audit (COA) has confirmed what some of us have suspected all along: the current Philippine government’s policy to uplift the status of …
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Pork outrage vs viral videos: Filipinos get angry with the wrong head
Another week another viral video. I saw Ms Ilda’s earlier tweet where she expressed what seems to be exasperation over the attention “leaked” intimate videos routinely get… Sigh…accdng to the …
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Many Philippine politicians are corrupt because Filipinos allow it
Philippine society’s dysfunctional culture is evident yet again in the latest scandal involving some members of Philippine Congress and how they channel their Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF) or “pork …
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Hardly surprising: Institutionalised prostitution in the Philippine Government’s Middle Eastern outposts
It’s hardly even surprising that such things have been happening all along for so long. The Philippines’ Overseas Foreign Workers (OFW) export industry is huge — at least 2 million …
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