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...
Category: revolution
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...
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...
The Writer’s Credo
They may not understand us, yet they persecute us. They persecute us, because they fear us. For in our pen, we control the destinies of Men…
