Wilfredo G. Villanueva
Cha Coronel Datu
Juana Pilipinas
Karl Garcia
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Irineo B. R. Salazar
JPilipinas
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JoeAmA Country Trapped in Reset Mode
By Karl Garcia Every political crisis in the Philippines eventually leads to the same demand: a reset.Remove the leader. Start over. Clean the slate. Try again. The impulse is understandable. When institutions disappoint and progress feels elusive, resetting offers emotional closure. It assigns blame. It promises renewal without requiring patience. But this instinct—repeated over decades—has … Continue reading
Mas Mahirap Maging Korap Kung Walang Mahirap
By Karl Garcia “Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap” is one of the most repeated lines in Philippine public life. It sounds right. It feels moral. It gives us a villain and a solution in a single sentence. But it gets the sequence wrong. The harder truth is this: mas mahirap maging korap kung walang mahirap.Corruption … Continue reading
The World Bank’s “Dream Debt” Line Is a Comforting Fudging Of the Truth
By Karl Garcia The World Bank recently said that “most countries would dream of having the kind of debt-to-GDP ratios” the Philippines has. On the surface, that sounds like praise — a global institution patting the country on the back for not being reckless.But for many Filipinos, the statement was not reassuring. It was insulting.Not … Continue reading
We Can’t Blame Culture—We Must Demand Accountability
By Karl Garcia First, I would like to thank Admiral Allan Cusi for his eye opener which is the basis of this write up. I also want to acknowledge a moment of misjudgment in my own writing—one where I allowed a sense of defeatism to creep in. While most of my articles have been hopeful … Continue reading
When Doctors Leave, Quacks Arrive:
Free Healthcare Promises, System Failure, and the Rise of Informal Medicine in the Philippines By Karl Garcia Quack doctors, fake healers, religious cults, and indigenous ritual practitioners persist in the Philippines not because Filipinos are irrational or anti-science, but because the formal healthcare system is absent, episodic, unsafe, and unreliable. Where doctors are consistently present, … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 