VP Inday Sara and the Jinn (or UFOs, the opposition’s new grand narrative)

Analysis and Opinion By Lance Corporal X Inday Sara, along with her friends Leni Robredo and Imee Marcos, have to win in 2025 and again in 2028.  There’s a lot at stake here, for the Philippines, as well as the USA and China, including the whole world. But ultimately the thing being fought over is … Continue reading

A Nation Beheaded

By Giancarlo Angulo The primary issues hounding our country is we are a pre capitalist country. Why pre capitalist? Wealth comes from resource extraction and in state sponsored extortion. We are what we admire and what we admire is the end state and not the process. Why is that? I would opine that we are … Continue reading

The Philippine Goldilocks problem

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America No, no, I don’t mean the Filipino bakery. I mean the 19th century fairy tale in which a girl named Goldilocks, like a thief in the daytime, enters the forest home of a bear family and tries the chairs, looking for the one that fits best (too big, too … Continue reading

Problem Solving the Philippines (My Framework)

I do this to eat my share of humble pie so I would be more open to the plans of other people. I force myself to write something like this because this demonstrates something important to me. I cannot think about everything. We all have blind spots. We can learn from other people. Most of … Continue reading

Problem Solving the Philippines: Education facts

by Giancarlo Angulo I will try to up my involvement in writing about the Philippines. Before we can start to problem solve we have to first gather the facts. As a follow up to joe’s post As Ireneo routinely tells me that the people that should be most concerned are the people here like me, … Continue reading