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...
Category: politics
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?
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...
Age of Terror: Legitimacy
In the post-Cold War world, Usama bin Laden was hardly in anyone’s thoughts. But he had high-flung dreams. And in the years that the world ignored him, he would brood, plot, train and struggle...
Super Tuesday: A Day Later
But, owing to the luck of time zones, one with a keen and patient eye could watch the election event known as “Super Tuesday” unfolds from east to west.
The End of Dynasties (updated)
..this season’s Super Bowl was epic indeed. It would either cap the Patriots’ bid to break the record for the Miami Dolphins (18-0), or bring a trophy home, for the first time in a...
The Philippine Autocracy & the Battle for Congress
Determined to forge a legacy to be remembered (the Iron Lady could yet surpass Lee Kuan Yew… or maybe make Thaksin grind his teeth in envy), Gloria has now turned her energies to her...
Why the Philippines is not a Democracy (Update 05-17-2016)
Why didn’t EDSA work? The formula was there: the military was agitating, the people were taking their grievances to the streets, and the priests were calling for an ouster. We felt we could make...
The Age of Terror: Tactics (revised)
The Japanese campaign had taken a turn for the worse, with entire Japanese squads resorting to suicidal runs (the banzai charge) abd pilots crashing bomb-filled planes into American ships (kamikaze). This was not far...
Anti-Thesis: Why Revolution will not succeed in the Philippines
A year ago, the radical group Magdalo sought to oust the government again, by way of “ultimate acts of disobedience”. The fatal flaw of their actions was that they centered on a general, idealistic...
