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…
Some 8509 miles from across the globe, New York Times counseled President Benigno Simeon Aquino to step down from power after 2016 because the fragile democracy in the country is in peril if he amends the constitution to run again and to clip the powers of the Supreme Court. This unsolicited advice betrays a certain…
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…
There are people who believed that on the tragic day of August 21, 1983, Marcos was bedridden with failing kidneys because of lupus (or due to stressful life, not lupus according to JPE’s Memoirs) and therefore he could not have ordered the ‘murder’ of the popular oppositionist former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. But Marcos was not always hobbled in…
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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…
I could not write better than the illustrious historian Alfred W. McCoy, so I might as well reprint what he had written about martial law terror of President F. Marcos 39 years ago today. “IN THE FOURTH MONTH of President Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law rule, two constabulary troopers marched a middle-aged Chinese merchant across a Manila parade…
Bongbong Marcos wanted to run for President. He, like the 204 congressmen in the house also believes that his father, the late strongman-dictator Ferdinand was a hero whose remains are in a private mausoleum in Batac, Ilocos Norte should be buried at the “Libingan Ng Mga Bayani”, in Taguig. To put some perspective in the minds…
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