What’s your social media IQ?

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

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

The honorable, the corrupt, and the blind

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America We mistakenly hold that there is only one kind of patriotism in the Philippines, the one expressed in the Constitution. But in its actual operation, in the deep state forces that drive government’s acts and the acts of people under that government, there are three. Let me identify the … 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

Liberal is not a political ideology

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The Philippines is in such political turmoil that it’s hard to write into it. I had to scrap a blog that would make no sense if Senator Sotto is not able to hold the Senate in the hands of the honest. So this article is impromptu, for discussion until … Continue reading