A Little Note on Human Rights
Lately, or more accurately as past as a few years ago, the term “human rights” has been bandied around as a “Western concept” that does not take into consideration the extent of “social responsibility”...
Category: duty
why do we need to put god as the center of our lives?
It has been some months (almost a year, in fact), since I wrote the Blog Article “God is an Embarrassment in Our Lives”. The main premise is easy enough to understand: we’ve treated God...
A Silent Call to the EDSA Generation
History books and heroes carried an EDSA that was about setting things right in the Philippines, and maybe some of them had the right idea, but mostly, the context of that demonstration was misunderstood....
Inertia: Sustaining the EDSA Movement
No, no, no, Arroyo will not listen… but we will howl nevertheless. In the two years she remains in power, we will howl her in the streets, howl her in the courts, and howl...
The Fatal Flaw of Western Democracies (revised 08-01-2012)
Schools have long taught that the American government was the model of that perfect democracy. That, however, has not stopped existing democracies from falling into tight-handed dictatorships. What has gone wrong? What is different...
For Better or For Worse: Cuba, Pakistan, Kosovo
Everywhere there seems to be a feeling of fatigue for one failed system after another, and movements (like Obama’s, which seems to be sweeping the United States) have begun to spring up, maybe not...
Gloria Arroyo and the Hitler Complex
We are forever frustrated by the continued existence of Gloria Arroyo as President. But would you have stood up to Hitler’s Germany? And can you really stand up to Arroyo’s Philippines?
A Celebration of Love
Have you ever looked in the eyes of a mother, after giving birth to her child? If you stood close to her when she was in labor—the one without anesthetics, the natural labor—you would...
Suffer Love
We look for signs of love in flowers, red roses, and sweet words. But the real sign of Love can be found in her tears, and her callused hands, and her tired sighs…
How We are Saved By EDSA
And here is why I believe that the EDSA Movement is indeed God’s gift to the Filipino people, and why it is different from other revolutions out there: it sired a peaceful demonstration, but...
