The left-leaning groups and the misty-eyed dreamers of the country continue to spew rhetoric over the desire of the Americans to enslave the Philippines by renegotiating a possible US troops and armaments buildup in the country as a counterweight to China’s threat in the region. These “misguided” were rehashing the narrative of Renato Constantino and Claro…
The floods in Manila accentuate the misery and suffering of city dwellers– leptospiroses, sudden spike in the prices of basic commodities, stranded commuters, city at standstill yet burning fuels by the barrels, contaminated water, enterprising street urchins propping up wooden gangplanks on submerged city streets to fleece few pesos from pedestrians crossing by, shanties both…
When I was a young boy, many summers ago, my older brother related to me a story about the capture of a Japanese soldier at the twilight of Japanese occupation of the country who was bludgeoned to death by the townspeople. While he was being beaten up with hammer, bolos, clubs and sticks, he kept protesting…
Friends and admirers of the late Rodolfo V. Quizon, aka, Dolphy want the Cultural Arts group to confer the national artist award for cinema for the dead comedian. The effort seeks only to highlight the “smallness” mentality which the Filipinos have never outgrown. The comedian, dubbed as “Comedy King” of the Philippine Cinema had chalked up…
To govern the Filipinos better, at the turn of the century, the white conquistadores must teach their language to the natives. English was taught in the public school the first time not by the fabled Thomasites, but by a young Filipina, Maria. Here is Nick Joaquin: “Let us begin this paean to the public school system,…
This is an excerpt from Chapter 18, Building Ties with Thailand, the Philippines, and Brunei, of Lee Kuan Yew’s Book, “From Third World To First” which I copied from the blogsite of AntiPinoy.com. AP offers this as a bible for Filipino administrators/politicians which only highlights our favorable disposition towards viewpoints that are foreign when the…
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