“Mar Roxas: the man, the myth, the legend”

(Translation link: Mar Roxas: Ang Alamat, Ang Kathang Isip at ang Tutuong Tao) Well, I’ll take them out of order. First the legend, the myth and then the man. The Legend It is true that Mar Roxas arrives on the scene as a legend. For some, it is for his photos, of bags of rice, lying … Continue reading →

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Forgetting and Forfeiting

w By Rolan F. Literatus Lee Kuan Yew once held the view that the Filipino people has a soft forgiving culture. According to him, it is this culture that puts the Philippines as the only country in the world that considers a national burial for a former dictator who pillaged the country for twenty years and … Continue reading →

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Worshiping idols instead of electing leaders

It occurred to me that Philippine voters, being broadly of the emotional and unread variety, do not really have much knowledge about their preferred candidates. They are making choices on the basis of what tabloid media report in their sensational headlines, or what candidates craft in terms of advertising, or what their friends and family … Continue reading →

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Heneral Luna Today

w by Irineo B. R. Salazar The focus in the Philippines is always, and too much, on the President. He or she is expected to be a paramount datu, rajah or barangay captain to deal with all problems in the Philippines, a country of nearly 100 million people, in an archipelago of over 7000 islands … Continue reading →

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China’s stealth invasion of the Philippines

China is the muscular underachiever out to prove a point, behavior we would normally associate with a teen-ager, but China has been around awhile. Indeed, China displays symptoms of emotional duress born of centuries of playing second fiddle to smaller, stronger nations. Her leaders portray racial difference as racial superiority in order to get even, to compensate, … Continue reading →

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