Is a Philippine Detroit possible? Checking out Industriepolitik

Posted by Irineo B. R. Salazar on April 22, 2026 · 1 Comment 

My previous article mentioned Michael Jackson’s father and his frustration with the factory. The Philippines barely has factories: unlike Motown aka Detroit, it never built the industrial base that turns working people into a middle class. That is why the majority of Filipinos live in precarity, and why the poorest remain truly destitute. So I … Continue reading →

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Mining Our Past, Saving Our Future: Why the Philippines Needs Landfill Mining and Smart WtE

Posted by Karl Garcia on December 13, 2025 · 27 Comments 

By Karl Garcia Beyond slogans, beyond moral fights, toward industrial-scale environmental solutions For decades, environmental debates in the Philippines have revolved around a single, tired binary: Zero Waste vs. Incineration. NGOs condemn burning. LGUs defend Waste-to-Energy (WtE). Corporations stay silent. And while the debate rages, rivers clog, mountains are mined, landfills overflow, and cities sprawl … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Ecology/Global Warming, Economy, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Technology/Internet

The Integrated Archipelago: Forging Philippine Resilience through Infrastructure, Maritime Governance, and Blue–Green Industrial Convergence

Posted by Karl Garcia on November 24, 2025 · 64 Comments 

Author: Karl Garcia Abstract This blog article presents a vision of the Philippines as a connected, sovereign, and sustainable maritime nation — achieved through the integration of infrastructure, maritime governance, and blue–green industrial development. Building upon the Philippine Nautical Highway, inter-island bridge and railway projects, EO 57 (2024) on maritime governance, and the Blue Economy … Continue reading →

Category Ecology/Global Warming, Economy, Education, Governance, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Technology/Internet

When computers run human thinking

Posted by JoeAm on October 20, 2025 · 38 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America We are explorers, each and every one of us, moving forward, because there is no backward, into the era in which computers do human thinking. The flood has begun and we already are finding it hard to tell who wrote that, a human or a machine? Pictures and videos … Continue reading →

Category Culture and Arts, Education, Life, Technology/Internet

What’s your social media IQ?

Posted by JoeAm on September 25, 2025 · 36 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Social media is the arena into which you walk and you are suddenly accosted by peddlers, hawkers, snake-oil salesmen, politicians, influencers, advertisers, spies, magicians, and thieves. The scientists, professors, and fact dispensers are somewhere out in the hallway down by the popcorn stand chewing their nicely salted and buttered … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Culture and Arts, Education, Life, Technology/Internet