Oh my, it’s incredible: The senators who betrayed Leila De Lima and enabled Duterte EJKs

Posted by JoeAm on November 10, 2025 · 173 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America It’s incredible. The Philippines is stuck in poverty and corruption because patronage, not principle, rules the land. You can’t change by staying the same. You can’t change by letting prominent people escape accountability for their bad decisions and crimes. In September 2016, then Senator Leila de Lima was doing … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Governance, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics

A Filipino uprising

Posted by JoeAm on October 9, 2025 · 31 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I have a great weather app, Windy.com. It allows me to see and project storms with very high accuracy. It’s well worth the $20 annual fee for premium that has so many measurements from smog to lightning strikes that I can project the camel population in Egypt based on … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Governance, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics

Messaging: “Rise Philippines!”

Posted by JoeAm on October 2, 2025 · 24 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The challenge for good governance is this: the bad guys are organized behind DDS while the good guys are divided by people arguing for their favorite personalities. The only way around this is to develop a messaging platform that does not get bogged down in people politics. The call … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Philippine Politics

“DDS are paid liars and abusers of the Philippines”

Posted by JoeAm on September 29, 2025 · 21 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America It seems to me that Filipinos need to grasp why the Philippines struggles to provide jobs and wealth or else the 2028 presidential election will be one more step in the enduring failure. Filipinos vote their feelings, not knowledge, and their feelings are hugely shaped by DDS propagandists. Lets … Continue reading →

Category China, Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Philippine Politics

The honorable, the corrupt, and the blind

Posted by JoeAm on September 18, 2025 · 60 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America We mistakenly hold that there is only one kind of patriotism in the Philippines, the one expressed in the Constitution. But in its actual operation, in the deep state forces that drive government’s acts and the acts of people under that government, there are three. Let me identify the … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Culture and Arts, Governance, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government