Authors
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Wilfredo G. Villanueva
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Cha Coronel Datu
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Juana Pilipinas
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Karl Garcia
- Trump’s Final Two Years: A Lame-Duck Presidency, an Assertive Congress and the Challenge of Repairing America
- From Borrowing for Development to Delivering Development: The Philippines Must Stop Paying for Infrastructure That It Cannot Implement
- Water, Water Everywhere, but Nowhere to Drink: The Philippines’ Water Crisis in the Age of Super El Niño
- Beyond Dependence: From Degree to Diskarte to Capability
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giancarloangulo
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Irineo B. R. Salazar
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JPilipinas
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karlgarcia
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JoeAm
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Open Discussion #3: Philippine News Agency
Last week, the Executive Branch opened its online news portal, The Philippine News Agency. I found this interesting because a couple of years ago, I recommended that the Aquino government open a news outlet to provide information that could counter the misleading sensationalist information stream so often found in popular media. Now the Duterte Administration … Continue reading
Open Discussion #2: The Philippines, an occupied State
What are the characteristics of occupancy? A ruling nation invades, takes charge, and assigns its dogmatic leaders to control the occupied state. Filipinos are born and raised to understand this, because the time of true democratic freedoms has amounted to perhaps 25 years over a span of six centuries. The current occupation is not by a foreign … Continue reading
Is ICC Duterte’s Waterloo?
by Chemrock “Criminal case vs Duterte filed before International Criminal Court” …screamed Philstar headline. There is no case against the president, at least not yet. The self-confessed hitman Edgar Matobato, through his lawyer, lodged a complaint at the ICC against Duterte and 11 others, that’s what transpired. There are only 3 ways a case may … Continue reading
Open Discussion #1: Who is the enemy?
Open discussion blogs can address any subject, even the clientèle of Donald Trump’s hairdresser. But let me kick this one off with a starter conversation: * * * * * Traditionally, the enemies of the Philippines have been: (P1) Islamic terrorists: Abu Sayaff, BIFF and other splinter groups, and recently ISIS (P2) Communist groups seeking … Continue reading
Last week was a regular Fernando Poe shoot ’em up!
By Joe America Last week, the Philippines was full of action, a jam packed, knock-down drag-out drama as exciting as a Fernando Poe shoot ’em up. We had Time Magazine dropping it’s Leila bomb, giving international recognition to both President Duterte for his killing streets and Senator De Lima for standing upright in opposition. We had China … Continue reading
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