Ten-point plan for a first-world Philippines

Posted by JoeAm on January 4, 2018 · 127 Comments 

By Joe America This is The Society of Honor’s ten-point plan that targets raising the Philippines to first-world status in 25 years. It is an imaginary set of steps that is imaginary only because today’s leaders appear to lack the will to implement it, or something like it: Stop the killings and excessive PNP force; restore due … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Economy, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

The President is making love to the AFP

Posted by JoeAm on December 11, 2017 · 79 Comments 

  By Joe America This article will get coarse, so be prepared or simply click off now. There is not much attention to drugs here, but sex, crudity, abuse, and violence do make an appearance. We have seen President Duterte working exceptionally hard to build a bond with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

Japan and the Philippines

Posted by JoeAm on November 15, 2017 · 81 Comments 

By Joe America Many believe that the US, by going inward and isolationist under President Trump, has ceded Southeast Asia to China. Rule of the seas, free trade agreements, financial control . . . all going to China. I’m not so sure. I believe the US has ceded her role to Japan, not China. The … Continue reading →

Category China, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Philippine Government

Dick Malay: The Rebel Finds Love, Part 2

Posted by Wilfredo G. Villanueva on November 10, 2017 · 247 Comments 

By Wilfredo G. Villanueva Second of Two Parts After living for ten years in China (1971-1981), Dick, battle-scarred for tilling soil, his family and comrades limped towards the Netherlands, China not being the land of promise for them anymore. Utrecht was to be the second global front of the Left’s struggle against the Marcos dictatorship. … Continue reading →

Category China, Citizenship/Patriotism, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

China’s intrusion into Philippine affairs: a brewing disaster

Posted by JoeAm on October 13, 2017 · 181 Comments 

By Joe America There is an area of writing between factual news and unfettered opinion that is called ‘analysis”. Sometimes analysis is fact-based and verifiable and sometimes it is mostly speculation. This analysis tilts toward speculative and the reader is free to judge if it has merit or not. I think that China is pushing … Continue reading →

Category China, Economy, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Philippine Government