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Explaining the ‘Paradigm Shift’
In an interview with the “Sa Totoo Lang” program on Cignal TV’s OnePh channel, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said the Philippines aims to sign a VFA-like military-to-military agreement with Japan by the first quarter of 2024.
Avoiding a repeat of 1986
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is getting paranoid. He is worried he will end up like his late father and namesake.
American neocolonialism
And Washington will keep its pressure to keep New Delhi’s toe the line, a form of Western neocolonialism in the Indo-Pacific region.
Freedom of navigation
China has no right to harass TS Kapitan Felix Oca which was sailing within the Philippines’ 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Exposing the lie a Marcos has made again
For the record, the Marcoses returned to the Philippines in 1991. In fact, Imelda Marcos and Bongbong Marcos both ran in the elections of 1992, with the latter winning for the congressional seat of Ilocos Norte’s second district. They were already bodily present in the country when the tax case was heard in court.
Sara’s concept of good governance
Does she serve for others, or does she rule for her own interests? It is a critical distinction we continually ask of our public servants if we were to mature in the politics of accountability.The many of us not accustomed yet to Dutertismo and the disinformative...
Red tagging is now a cottage industry
Expect more red tagging to worsen under the new Marcos administration. The first red tagger, lest we forget, was the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
The heroification of Chao-Tiao Yumol
What exactly is the true story?
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Investigating Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte once threatened to have Fatou Bensouda, the Gambian lawyer and chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, arrested if she ever came to the Philippines to inquire into his government’s drug killings…
‘Grandes males grandes remedios’
Five hundred years of Christianity has produced a vibrant Catholic Church in the Philippines, making it (in 2021) the third largest Catholic nation in the world. Yet seventy-five years of self-styled “democracy” has produced (in the same year) a highly erratic democratic state. Most Filipinos believe in democracy, but they are likely not to act in its defense, even if the Constitution and the rule of law are debased—-unless and until the tipping point has been reached.
Some things a president must know
He assigned his spokesman Harry Roque to debate with Carpio instead. And Carpio quickly honored Duterte’s turnaround by proposing that the Filipino comedian Vice Ganda debate with Roque instead. I never heard whether or not Vice Ganda accepted.
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An urgent call to drop everything and act on the climate crisis
When something is urgent, we drop anything that we do and attend to it. We not only attend to it but put in all our effort and our resources to it because it is urgent. So much more when this urgent call is an emergency.
Listen to the kids
Reading the above lines would make you think they came from Greta Thunberg or one of today’s young climate activists. Yes, it came from a young person but spoken more than 27 years ago
Go after the ‘ninja cops’
The existence of the so-called “ninja cops” is the issue.
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