So how did Indonesia bury its own much, much worse, dictator?
One of the irritating inane comments against the planned burial of strongman Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani is that we would be the laughing stock of the world.…
The tragic tale of the Marcos loot âdiscovererâ
Fact-checking the London-based The Guardianâs May 2016 article, âThe $10bn question: what happened to the Marcos millions?â which I mentioned in my column on Monday, led me to a facet…
On the Marcos issue, media and the academe have failed us
One big reason why we still have to suffer this debate over Marcosâ burial in the Libingan ng mga Bayani is that the two institutions tasked by society to enlighten…
Duterte smarter than âMakabayanâ blockheads
The so-called Makabayan bloc of six âprogressive parties,â together with the Ateneo de Manila community and a few professors of De La Salle University, have been pulling their hair the past weeks crying to the high heavens, âWhy oh why will the Dark Lord Marcos be buried in hallowed ground?â Makabayan representatives even condemned the impending election of former President Gloria Arroyo,
Can Erap be buried at the Libingan?
My apologies to former President Joseph Estrada, and knock on wood. But there isnât any other case I can use in order to objectively and logically analyze an issue hogging the headlines in recent weeks: former strongman â and...
Are we seeing a New Revolution led by Supremo Duterte?
To understand the question and its relevance, we have to understand first the different definitions of what a revolution is. The strict Marxist notion of revolution is the overthrow of…
Stop the killings now, order the genie back into the lamp
Enough is enough, and I find it sickening already to watch in every single TV news program (since June or even as early as May 11) corpses of alleged pushers…
Jomaâs revolutionary forces would fit in a subcompact European car
I hope President Rodrigo Duterte has realized that the megalomaniac septuagenarian Jose Ma. Sison no longer commands, nor has any influence...
âAm-boyâ envoys gang up on Yasay
The gall of our ambassador to the US Jose Cuisia and the former foreign affairs secretary to berate President Duterteâs foreign affairs secretary Perfecto Yasay, Jr. for allegedly not pushing…
SONAs donât matter, a waste of everyoneâs time
Since it had been part of my job as a journalist (and for four years as a Malacañang official), I have intently listened to and analyzed, privately or publicly, 30…