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Deception and Disinformation
China has taught Harry Roque well. In the years when he served Rodrigo Duterte as his spokesman, Roque mastered what China does best regarding strategic communications.
Secession
Recently, there was a new proposal to break away from the Republic as former president Rodrigo Duterte suggested gathering signatures to petition the government to allow Mindanao to become a separate and independent state.
News media: A vanishing tribe
Like dinosaurs, journalists are vanishing in today’s society, replaced my social media influencers and ordinary vloggers who draw much attention to the most mundane issues but which so many people can relate to.
The US, too, is disregarding international laws
Big powers, like the United States and China, have been pushing their own national interests, disregarding international laws and infringing on the rights of weaker and smaller neighbors.
The Senate that hates fiction
Suddenly, “art imitating life” is a condemnable act when it exposes the out-and-out ineptitude of a government whose fidelity is not to the Filipino people but to their political patrons. How’s that for bad image?
When media lies, it disempowers
Everyday, media advances the literacy of citizens by enabling them to critically understand issues, evaluate its content, and communicate a whole range of social and political situations.
His first act as Agriculture Secretary
Now that he says his run for president was based on the family’s survival, now that even his department could not control the prices of onions skyrocketing like bedlam, we see the essential Bongbong Marcos: family and cronies first helping out on government money. So very much like his father and mother.
Secret construction rush for Marcos abode
First priority: our family’s comfort and its party-parties.
Confronting the “Original Sin”
In March 30, this year, in a historical move that did not draw sufficient media attention, the Vatican abrogated an original sin. No, not Augustine’s doctrine on original sin. But the Doctrine of Discovery which became the foundation of colonialism from the 15th century onwards.
HIJACKED!
What if the whole environmental movement is being manipulated by corporate interest, which is its purported arch-enemy?
To hell and back
The poor then can only rely on themselves and fend for themselves. As a wise saying goes, they can “organize or die!”
Election algorithms
Now, while the local elections have always been historically dominated by political dynasties, what makes the 2022 elections special and historical is the teaming up of these families to forge a winning ticket for the highest elective post of the land.
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Decriminalization of libel: We must act now!
It’s 2022, humanity should’ve matured by now, leaving behind laws that are not only draconian, but primitive. Are we to remain as cavemen?
We need to talk about dangerous drugs
We cannot rely on simplistic plotlines to address a superfluously complex socioeconomic phenomenon. But we must begin somewhere, and a scientific narrative is a good place to start.
Marawi’s bakwit
Past Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s first 100 days, the so-called independent and quasi-judicial Marawi Compensation Board seems to have been stuck somewhere between the imagination and amnesia. After five long years, the supposedly nine-member board has yet to be created, leaving tens of thousands of displaced Meranaw residents at risk and in dire living conditions.
The culture of death and social sin
We find ourselves living in a society where killing and corruption have become normal. People don’t even consider these as sin. What is happening can be described as the “culture of death” – a term used by Pope John II in his encyclical “Evangelium Vitae.”
The dark side of leadership
Nowadays, we often hear of government leaders who are incompetent and who use their position of leadership for their self-interest: they are corrupt, despotic, immoral, power-hungry, materialistic, abusive, and who are more concerned about their image or status.
What Duterte has achieved in three years
Supreme Court – even ousting chief justice Sereno. He was able to imprison his foremost critic Senator Leila De Lima on trumped up charges.
A watershed moment for Filipinos
Like Cardinal Advincula’s recognition of the “martyrdom” of Gomburza, such a vigorous reaffirmation of Church teaching on politics by the shepherds, pastors and consecrated women of the Philippine church could yet be another watershed moment for Filipinos.
The quintessential F. Sionil Jose
On January 6 this year, Francisco Sionil Jose, novelist, journalist, social and political critic, and Philippine national artist for literature, died at 97. His death has irreparably affected the nation’s literary, social, cultural and political scene.
Keeping the ‘Manchurians’ out of the elections
The May 9, 2022 presidential election looks like nothing we have ever seen before, and we have to do everything to prevent it exploding into a total “failure of elections.”
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Side tracking Lent
There may be changes in some of the church practices that we do, but let us not be side-tracked by these discussions from the real meaning of the season of Lent which is a season of grace and conversion.
Christian love vs/and Valentine love
Love is the craze of February, especially of February 14.
Who will it be?
Since it was announced by no less than Pope Francis himself that Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has been appointed Prefect of the Congregation on the Evangelization of Peoples on December 8, 2019, there has been a lot of speculations on who would be the next Archbishop of Manila. Yes, speculations, because we truly do not know.
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