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JoeAmImpunity, Solicitor General Calida, and Senator Trillanes
By JoeAm We normally think of impunity as a bad thing, something powerful government officials have. They operate with an overbearing sense of entitlement as they wang wang their way through town or set themselves up for commissions on another construction project or, in President Duterte’s case, do illegal acts such as inspire killings outside … Continue reading
Yellow is not politics, it is a force
By JoeAm There is a lot of confusion about “yellow” in the Philippines. Some people deny being yellow as if it were dengue. Many associate it with the Liberal Party, or liberal politics. Others associate it with the movement to protect Philippine democracy, civility, and human rights. It strikes me as amusing that the State/Marcos … Continue reading
How Duterte’s ‘change’ brought gross incompetence to the Philippines
By JoeAm You can’t build competence on the back of deceit, bluster, and favors. What are the elements of competence? Competence requires objectivity and its brother transparency to correctly recognize, state, and size the issue at hand, whether it be the availability of rice or the best Supreme Court Chief Justice. Along with objectivity, competence requires … Continue reading
How Rappler helped defeat Mar Roxas
By JoeAm When you spend your whole life in one city, you live the values and speak the language of that city. When you live in one culture for your whole life, you live the values and speak the language of that culture. When you are a reporter in one culture all your life, you … Continue reading
Duterte, Shabu and the Media
By A Distant Observer Framing, issue ownership and attention shifting This article I wanted to write for a long time. While the societal consequences of the mechanisms described here have arrived in Filipino society for quite some time, this article aims to shed light on the mechanisms themselves. By mechanisms I mean how people process … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 