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
- Pre-Rizal Philippine Literature: Myths, Epics, and Early Chronicles
- Why Mexico Did Not Continue the Galleon Trade After Independence
- The Philippines and the Seven Years’ War: An Indirect Colony in a Global Conflict
- Between Magellan and Legazpi: The Forgotten Gap, the Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs, and Why the Philippines Became More Mexican Than Spanish
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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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Joe America: Lunch with President Aquino
What are the qualities of President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III that are generally not recognized in a popular press busy leveraging conflict to sell papers or build audience? Here’s the President I met last Friday: A hard, calculating, impeccibly reasonable man. Holding a fierce loyalty to friends or those who help. Resigned to accept … Continue reading
Federalism? What are we talking about?
w By Josephivo Change. A new president with a new administration, new people, new ideas, new priorities. Two central concepts, federalism and the parliamentarian system, both container concepts, covering a wide range of solutions for a wide range of problems. So what are we talking about? To be meaningful, the discussions will require specific plans … Continue reading
Managing NIMBY: the good the bad, and the TBD
Understanding President Duterte #6 TBD means “to be determined”. As in the good, the bad, and the to be determined. I suspect most of us fall into the common trap of what I will term “the intellectual NIMBY”. NIMBY means “not in my back yard”. Take electrical power plants. People want them for the everlasting … Continue reading
Can an iron fist create unity?
Understanding President Duterte #5 We humankinds are always in the business of drawing lines here and there. Some are spacial or geographic, maybe consisting of 9 dashes across a sea. Or perhaps there is a red line somewhere west of Panatag Shoal of which China should be very, very aware. There are also lines in time, … Continue reading
Davao Economic Forum
I post the following information here because it is such a relief to see constructive ideas coming out attached to the incoming Duterte Administration. There has been too much posturing and emotionalism, too many wild and irresponsible statements . . . from a lot of people. The PH ought not do a National Trump, I … Continue reading
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The Society of Honor by Joe America 