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In sociology, corruption has a straightforward definition. When it involves government officials and employees, corruption simply means the failure to distinguish between the interests of the government and those of other entities in society, such as family, private businesses, religious (…)
Ten years hence the September 9 to 28, 2013 Zamboanga Siege, the questions of justice and peace arising from and around it continue without both aspirations being fully or even satisfactorily achieved. On top of this, history of the Mindanao conflict seems to keep repeating itself, as if the key (…)
Agnes Smedley with three vignettes of political life in the Philippines, including a visit to a Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas rally addressed by Crisanto Evangelista.
Cognao And Revolution —
Four of us sat in a Chinese restaurant in Manila, a Filipino newspaper man, a Chinese physician, an (…)
Over 10 percent of the population of the Philippines works overseas, sending back remittances that are crucial to the country’s economy. A new book outlines how the Left won this demographic — only to soon lose it.
When people move abroad and settle in other countries, they don’t automatically (…)
Why does one of the Philippines’ most traumatic wartime experiences loom small in commemorations of WW2?
On 3 February, 2024, the Manila City Government marked the 79th anniversary of the Battle of Manila with a solemn but subdued ceremony. The event was attended by a select group of (…)
It is that time of the year again, the period around the Edsa People Power anniversary, that the recurring line gets regurgitated. The worn-out line goes that Rodrigo Duterte’s family should be ashamed that their matriarch Soledad Duterte was an anti-Marcos crusader.
Pundits just love to (…)
’The answer to many strategic and tactical questions we face depend on how we grasp the nature of the country we seek to change’
For several decades now, those who seek to change Philippine society have remained deeply divided over one basic question: What kind of society is Philippine (…)
Among the expensive rifles that Duterte owns is one priced at P350,000, while another costs about P163,000. Former lawmaker Carlos Zarate asks him: ’As a former president, you already have PSG [Personal Security Guards], what will prevent other people from asking the same kind of privilege?’ (…)
As the US dramatically expands its military presence, colonialist history is repeating itself.
When the news broke in early February that Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had struck a deal to allow the United States to dramatically expand its military presence on the archipelago, many (…)
After he issued Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law, Ferdinand Marcos tried to explain that martial law did not mean military rule. He assured the nation that civilian leadership remained supreme over the military.
Technically, he was right. Marcos, who remained (…)
Most history has generally been written from the point of view of rulers and elites and has little to say about the great majority of the planet’s inhabitants.
Filipino historians’ assertions that history is synonymous with the “truth” are aimed at the viral comment on social media by a (…)
Solid North ‘bus’ zooms on as political juggernaut.
The Solid North is very much alive and growing, giving president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. a rare majority victory
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – Vice President Leni Robredo loved to read out supporters’ placards during her campaign sorties (…)
Analysis: Duterte’s popularity remains undented among people in poorer areas despite attacks on human rights, rule of law and media
Six years ago, the tough-talking mayor of Davao City, known as “the Punisher” because of his merciless approach to crime, was on the brink of taking national (…)
There’s a gossipy side to history which, unfortunately, interests the public more than the more scholarly, facts-based aspects of historiography. Enter social media, which favors the spread of the more sensational and salacious gossip, and you have it quickly accepted as history.
This is (…)
One hundred twenty-four years after our elders proclaimed the Filipino people’s independence from Spanish colonial rule , we may perhaps view with more understanding, and even admiration, the seemingly strange manner in which they performed that defining act. More specifically, why they invoked (…)
“President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s designation of known technocrats to manage the Philippine economy raises the issue of whether continuing to rely on this particular group of experts can actually do good for the Filipino people and the country. (...) The opposing view sees the surge of (…)
Thirty-six years ago, in February 1986, millions of Filipinos gathered on Edsa, the main thoroughfare of Manila, in open defiance of the brutal regime of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. With immense courage, they stood their ground in the face of the tanks and military might of the dictatorship, (…)
While a good number of thoughtful Filipinos believe that the May 2022 presidential election is a watershed moment for our country and for generations to come — one that demands the most careful reflection about the kind of nation we want to be — this is not necessarily how the majority of voters (…)
The late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was instrumental in the founding of the New People’s Army. His power moves in Central Luzon set in motion a wave of violence that tore apart the region for the next half decade.
Presidential elections in the Philippines are routinely violent affairs, but the (…)
I am sleepless because of what the Marcoses represent—world-class plunder, torture, and murder—with no acknowledgment, no apology, no repentance, no attempt at restitution. Not even taxes paid on inherited stolen wealth. And yet, here they are, performing civility and restraint, telling us to (…)
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