One can understand why the New York Times was bad mouthing President Benigno Simeon Aquino. He did not bring business to New York. The crooks did. More crooks in the mold of the Marcoses, stealing from the Filipinos and splurging those stolen millions in this sleepless city, means more business for New York. “One winter morning…
It is tragic that an unarmed and inactive U.S. Marine and a husband of U.S. diplomat got beaten up and stabbed to death by 3 Filipino businessmen and a student in an upscale BelAir Makati Village, early Saturday morning. Major George Anikow, 41, died in a hospital, a victim of Pinoys’ “machete culture,” a culture which resolves…
JPE’s Memoir, is a narration of political events that bedevil the nation beginning 1924, when a poor boy, Juanito Furagganan, JPE’s childhood name, was born in barrio Mission in the town of Gonzaga, a sandy, coastal, fishing village situated at the mouth of the Mission River, Cagayan, up to the historical impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona of…
The Enrile Memoir is his resume — it was a narrative addressed to his employer, the Filipino people begging them to look at him in most favored light and consider him as one of the stalwarts of Philippine politics, a statesman, if you may. Whether he has achieved this purpose is for the people and…
A Marcos loyalist had wandered into my blog and called me names: ‘gunggong’ and ‘bakla’ when I tried to compare the late dictator to the departed DILG Secretary. One is hated, the other is well-loved. He said that the comparison was way off because Marcos had the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and a Sta. Barbara nuclear…
For Senator Bongbong Marcos to say that his father was a hero and not a thief and that his last heroic act was his restraint in not ordering the massacre of the civilians massed at EDSA 1, in February 1986 is but normal of a son and a politician. In his eyes his father is an all-time hero; and as…
Watching Senator Gringo Honasan interpellating Secretary of Justice Lila De Lima during the impeachment trial of CJ Renato Corona yesterday about affording even a lowly citizen his constitutional rights to life, liberty and property as the very basis of the existence of any government gave me goose pimples. Rolando Olalia must be twisting in his grave! God Save The Queen…
Nothing much can be achieved in the impeachment of CJ Corona even if successful in the Senate except to sear in the public memory that a radical change in the leadership of the Supreme Court, touted before as the “untouchable” branch of the government is but a myth. But surely, it will not alter the present dynamics…
Did GMA soil the integrity of her father, President Diosdado Macapagal and her physical ailments bear witness of her Dad’s wrath? During the 1965 presidential elections where Ferdinand Marcos ran against Diosdado Macapagal, General Ramon Gelvezon had adroitly sidestepped pressure from President’s ally Sergio Osmena to raid the Danao City bailiwick of Cebu’s warlord Ramon Durano. This is how…
Col. Uldarico Baclagon, (1940-PMA), was a palace historian and propagandist during Marcos reign and he helped shape the Marcos myth as a war hero. In 1986, when Marcos fled to Hawaii, Baclagon became one presidential confidantes to fall from power into poverty. Here is a subtitle, “Myth As A History” of Alfred W. McCoy’s chapter…
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