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
- 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
- Before Colonization: The Maritime, Networked, and Layered Foundations of the Philippines
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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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Most Dangerous Land: Exhibit A
To the guy at GMA News Online who got upset because I called the Philippines the most dangerous land on the planet, I herein present Exhibit A. If we are not prepared, on the ground, it is not because the technology is lacking. It is because the human mind is not properly focused. On the … Continue reading
Why Mayor Estrada Is Wrong on Hong Kong
Subtitled: Filipinos Should Not Move to the Back of the Bus As is often the case, kindly bear with me as I wander through some facts and acts, and examine things a bit, before arriving at a conclusion. I’m sure most of you are aware of the background of the incident commonly known as the … Continue reading
When the NPA Runs Things Better Than Government
This blog is the full comment submitted by reader David Murphy in response to a blog written by JoeAm. David is new to the Society of Honor, but has injected some interesting observations into the recent discussion threads. He poses a counter-view to JoeAm’s opinion that NPA members are “extortionist gangsters”, and suggests that in … Continue reading
Believing in the Philippines
What do YOU want for the Philippines? I read a lot of commentary hereabouts, blogs and comment threads, investigative articles, opinion columns, and news reports shaded with a point of view. There is a strong current of anger to a lot of it, of cynical mistrust of Philippine leaders, of exasperation with Philippine society, and … Continue reading
The Philippine Luddite Mentality
I was roaming the Rappler conversation threads the other day and another visitor whipped a “pfft” on some people who are protesting the Philippine research work into genetically modified rice. He referred to them as “Luddites”. That sent me scurrying to my search button on the term “Luddite”, and this is what I got from … Continue reading
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