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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The working class: breaking out, moving up, or stuck?
A few blogs ago, I said that there are two voting classes in the Philippines, (1) those with opportunity to educate and enrich themselves and (2) those without. In the former are rich people and the middle class. People with the means to get educated, get a decent job and grow. Or people with connections, usually family … Continue reading
A matter of trust: the rest of the Abad story
A Society reader kindly sent me a report, recently made public. I read it and was suddenly struck with a new awareness. What if the shrill cry for Secretary Abad’s resignation has been wrong all along, built on an emotional bubble provoked by enemies of the straight path, fueled by sensationalist headlines and leftist rants? … Continue reading
A plunge into the darkened mind of Juan Ponce Enrile
I’m not a psychiatrist, just an observer. From time to time, I write fiction. This article can be taken as but another figment of JoeAm’s wayward literary license. It can also be taken as a bit of a rebuttal to Senator Enrile’s autobiography, which is said to deploy some imaginative literary license itself. If the esteemed Senator need not be bound by … Continue reading
The hardhearted priest in the hardhearted Philippines
Once again two seemingly unrelated incidents clinked a loud, unified chime in my certified cerebral collection center for the putting together of things. One, a Philippine priest berated an unwed mother who had brought her baby in for baptism, accusing her of living in sin and claiming the baby was born in sin. As if Jesus was … Continue reading
JoeAm rates the top presidential candidates
As I mention here and there, I don’t think facts are always that important. Facts can lead us into an obsession with detail, a problem many Filipinos have. Or they can be outright lies. Rather, it is ideas that count. Different ways of looking at problems, figuring things out, extending a few “what ifs” into … Continue reading
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