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
- Between Magellan and Legazpi: The Forgotten Gap, the Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs, and Why the Philippines Became More Mexican Than Spanish
- Before Colonization: The Maritime, Networked, and Layered Foundations of the Philippines
- MIGRATION, REINTEGRATION, AND LABOR MOBILITY IN THE PHILIPPINES
- Why the Philippines Keeps Entering Global Value Chains Without Fully Climbing Them
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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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The EDCA bases
Did you find the choice of Philippine bases under Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) as interesting as I did? Peculiar, yet it all makes sense if we think it through. What we learned There are apparently five bases the US will use for staging equipment and housing troops that are rotated through the Philippines [PH, US … Continue reading
The Great Bangladesh Central Bank Heist
w By chempo This must have been The Great Train Robbery of the 21st century. Hackers were suspected to have been responsible for sending SWIFT FIN payment instructions from Central Bank of Bangladesh to the Federal Reserve Bank NY on Feb 4 to request transfers of US$1 billion. The Feds executed 1 payment of US$20mm … Continue reading
The two “me classes” that undermine the Philippine nation
Fine print: The audience for this piece is foreigners. However, if you are a Filipino citizen, you are free to read as long as you accept full responsibility for any ideas that arise from within your own cranium. In other words, don’t blame me if you think thoughts that affect your decision-making with regard to the … Continue reading
The World According to Jim Paredes
w By Wilfredo G. Villanueva It gets you. How come surveys do not indicate intelligent choice? Will we depart from Daang Matuwid just when Bloomberg has called our country the strong man of Asia? Will we lose democratic space because voters seem to prefer a would-be despot, or our growth upended by a new dynastic … Continue reading
An Open Letter to AlDub Nation
Dear AlDub Nation, We’ve been wanting to write you a letter but have been hesitant in doing so. You might laugh us off the planet, saying that we are presumido because how can we connect you as fans of Maine Mendoza and Alden Richards, the three lolas and the whole Eat Bulaga dabarkads, to what … Continue reading
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The Society of Honor by Joe America 