VP Inday Sara and the Jinn (or UFOs, the opposition’s new grand narrative)

Analysis and Opinion By Lance Corporal X Inday Sara, along with her friends Leni Robredo and Imee Marcos, have to win in 2025 and again in 2028.  There’s a lot at stake here, for the Philippines, as well as the USA and China, including the whole world. But ultimately the thing being fought over is … Continue reading

A Nation Beheaded

By Giancarlo Angulo The primary issues hounding our country is we are a pre capitalist country. Why pre capitalist? Wealth comes from resource extraction and in state sponsored extortion. We are what we admire and what we admire is the end state and not the process. Why is that? I would opine that we are … Continue reading

The Philippines is going nowhere, but it doesn’t have to be that way

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America This is a progress report of sorts as I collect data and ideas about the Philippines as it heads toward a 2028 presidential election. It would be nice if the nation could have a breakthrough election that would move it toward modern ideas, accountability, and productive outputs rather than … Continue reading

President Marcos needs to give us more confidence

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America President Marcos entered office roaring. Traveling, hatching new initiatives, doing a lot of good works. Half the nation, though, was in no mood to appreciate his good works because they knew what his father did, and didn’t trust the son. That’s why the President struggles to get his trust … Continue reading

Creating Opportunities in the Philippines

Joe wrote an article almost a decade ago describing opportunity as an energy untapped in the Philippines. Ambition is indeed a bad word for many Filipinos, somehow equating opportunity with opportunism. Some see OFWs who go abroad as modern “bayani,” somehow similar to warriors of precolonial Philippines who raided and traded, bringing home the bacon. … Continue reading