Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
From his first poem at age 8 to his final scribbled words before his execution, discover the depth and evolution of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal’s revolutionary thought in this compelling collection of essays by Soliman Santos, Jr. This fresh analysis will help students understand: The (…)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
I second the motion of Juan Miguel Luz for a rethinking of the details of our Philippine flag in so far as it is a symbol of exclusion rather than inclusion of the diverse peoples (yes, with an “s”) of the Philippines, given the importance of key national symbols in the imagination of the (…)
, by DAVID Randy
IF ANYONE IS STILL LOOKING FOR CONFIRmation of the determining role that the Filipino family plays in the nation’s political life, he will not find better proof than the results of this year’s national and local elections.
It is the victory of entire clans that is being heralded—particularly (…)
, by RODIL Rudy Buhay
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/18 March) — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. January 27, 2010: the peace negotiating panels of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) met to exchange position papers based on seven points earlier agreed upon, namely, (1) (…)
, by DAVID Randy
PRESIDENT MACAPAGAL-ARROYO CAN MAKE all kinds of claims about the accomplishments of her presidency, but what she will be long remembered for is the legacy of political instability she leaves behind. So important is stability to the functioning of a democracy that one of the crucial achievements (…)
, by BELLO Walden
This paper was delivered at the plenary session of the 2009 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society held at the PSSC Building, on Oct. 16, 2009.
This paper seeks to shed light on how an ideology achieves hegemony, how this hegemony is maintained, and what happens when the (…)
, by DAVID Randy
No President could have wished for a more rewarding funeral than the one that the Filipino people gave President Cory Aquino last Wednesday. The sendoff Cory got was neither a state nor a family event, but a national funeral befitting someone widely regarded as the mother of the nation. It was (…)
, by BELLO Walden
In its obituary on President Corazon Aquino, the Economist asserts that she attained greatness in leading the fight to oust the dictator Ferdinand Marcos but disappointed when it came to governing. “Her greatest achievement,” says the magazine, “was to survive seven attempted coups and hand over (…)
, by DOCENA Herbert
Former Philippines President Cory Aquino died August 1, 2009.
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The dead have passed on; they can no longer hear us weeping. It is we—we who must scatter the flowers over their graves—who have to be comforted for our loss and who have to confront what lies ahead. Cory (…)
, by MELENCIO Sonny
Statement issued by Sonny Melencio, Chairperson of the Partido Lakas ng Masa (Philippines), on the death of Former Philippines President Cory Aquino August 1, 2009.
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While we commiserate with the grief experienced by many people over the death of former President (…)
, by BELLO Walden
The stylized view of Robert McNamara, who passed away a few days ago, is that after serving as the chief engineer of the disastrous US war in Vietnam, he went on, in 1968, to serve as president of the World Bank, seeking to salve his troubled conscience by delivering development assistance to (…)
, by De GUZMAN Viol A.
Viol A. de Guzman, Filipino national, lived in Manila, and was a freelance editor, writer, researcher and activist. With substantial experience and familiarity with labor and urban poor sectors in the capital region, the peasantry and tribal populations in Northern Luzon, she helped develop (…)
, by DAVID Randy
MANILA, Philippines—In 1917, the Provincial Board of Mindoro passed a resolution requiring all “non-Christians” belonging to the Mangyan tribes to live in a permanent settlement near Lake Naujan. They were to immediately abandon the vast forests in which they lived, and settle down in a (…)
, by DAVID Randy
MANILA, Philippines—He lived much longer than his contemporaries. Born a few months after Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed Philippine independence from Spain in 1898, and Lorenzo Tañada was 93 when he died. Had he lived like a Japanese centenarian, he would be 110 on Sunday, Aug. 10.
The (…)
, by PIMENTEL Benjamin
Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama was touring the Middle East when a well-known columnist for a major US newspaper tried to point the way out of the mess in Iraq by citing lessons from another American military misadventure more than a century ago – in the Philippines. (…)
, by DAVID Randy
MANILA, Philippines — Writing in 1890 for La Solidaridad, Jose Rizal takes up the question of the so-called “indolence” of the Filipinos. This claim, he argues, had allowed the Spanish colonial authorities to excuse their own “stupidities,” and the friars to “make themselves irreplaceable.” We (…)
, by DAVID Randy
MANILA, Philippines — THIRTY-FIVE years ago, Ferdinand Marcos invoked the emergency powers provided by the 1935 Constitution in order to seize control of the main levers of government. Presidential Decree 1081 ushered in a dictatorship that lasted almost 14 years. The events that unfolded on (…)
, by CAMROUX David
The Philippines is technically a democracy but actually an oligarchy, its original landowning elite now supplemented by dynasties from industry and the services sector, and popular celebrities. The Catholic Church and the military also regularly intervene in government.
The president of the (…)
, by SUTHERLAND Matthew
The following is from a British journalist stationed in the Philippines.
I have now been in this country for over six years, and consider myself in most respects well assimilated. However, there is one key step on the road to full assimilation, which I have yet to take, and that’s to eat (…)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The author continues to relive his anecdotal experiences as an offspring of the Marxist revolution that sought to dramatically change Philippine society. He was a staff member of a pre-martial law newspaper.
THIRTY-THREE years ago today, a watershed event in the history of the (…)
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