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JoeAmTwo Decades On: Did Get Real Philippines Get It Right About Filipino Dysfunction?
By Karl GarciaOriginally inspired by GetRealPhilippines.comâs essay, first published on August 20, 2002. In the early 2000s, Get Real Philippines (GRP) struck a nerve. At a time when political instability, corruption, and moral fatigue defined the national mood, GRPâs essays offered a bracing diagnosis: the Philippines was not merely suffering from bad leadershipâit was crippled … Continue reading
Rising Waters in the Philippines
Literally and figuratively, the Philippines seems to be up to its neck in water nowadays. Somehow things have come to a point where even the most apolitical seem to have noticed that it can no longer continue the same way as before, even the way of many millenia. Some modified form of the old social … Continue reading
De Lima vs Duterte, Round 8
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Leila De Lima has always been for justice and human rights. Rodrigo Duterte has always been for himself, brutally. The two are like Batman and The Joker, a classic battle between good and evil. We have watched it play out like a time-lapse boxing match for 15 years now. … Continue reading
Ceasefire
When Joe decided to have a break glad he did not declare a cease fire, we must be always triggered not in a stressful way to keep our guns blazing. Maybe just this one article while Joe is gone On the Iran Israel ceasefire, Will that be a time for regrouping and preparing for another … Continue reading
Gatekeeper’s message
Joe is on vacay so I am back to writing for TSOH in the interim.Joe already said that in a year or two this blog will be archived, it has been a blast and as they say time is fast when you are having fun, time flies. Not so long ago I wrote something inviting … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 