The Pork Barrel Scam: Getting Away with Billion of Pesos (Part 1 of 3 parts) #PDAFscam
The pork barrels of five senators and 23 members of the Lower House are allegedly being misused. At the center of the controversy is Janet...
Japan’s Historical Idiocy and Moral Depravity
I refer to the utterly controversial and extremely immoral remarks reportedly made by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto with regard to the comfort women. I overwhelmingly...
Dear Candidate
Dear Candidate: It’s just a few days till we all trek to the precincts and cast our votes. I have this one last chance to...
Quo Vadis Pope Francis?
By Bernie Lopez Now that the dust of celebrations and euphoria over the Papal interregnum has somewhat settled down, there is a need for the...
A geopolitical solution to Sabah
By Bernie Lopez [email protected] The root of the problem on the Sabah issue is the lack of political will in high places, the lack of...
Virtue and Wisdom are the True Aim of Education
by Jose Mario Dolor De Vega There is a grain of truth to our present malady namely, that our educational system has failed us! The...
The Significance of Social Sciences in Education, the University and the making of the Intellectuals
by Jose Mario Dolor De Vega There is no shadow of doubt that the social science subjects undeniably played a vital and pivotal part in...
Self-Destruction: The Question of Suicide and the Tendency to Harm Oneself
by Jose Mario Dolor De Vega According to Wikipedia: Why do people kill themselves? “Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, “to kill oneself”) is the...
THE SABAH ISSUE: The Betrayal to the Republic of the Philippines of Mr. Aquino
by Jose Mario Dolor De Vega I concur with the statement of the Anonymous Philippines (February 28th) that President Aquino’s February 26, 2013 statement on the...
@noynoyaquino Noynoy’s big blunder in Sabah
by Bernie Lopez advance copy – Opinyon Magazine, March 18, 2012 Noynoy’s big geopolitical blunders are starting to emerge – first, Spratleys, now, Sabah. As...
“What alternatives are left to the Sultanate after March 1, 2013?” – Yolanda Ortega-Stern
Editor’s Note: I met Yolanda Ortega-Stern through my sister, Lorna Lardizabal-Dietz sometime in November 2011 when she and Thomas Stern, her husband came over to...
#KnowYourCandidate: Kanino ka Magtitiwala?
Habang naghihintay ako ng sasakyan papuntang opisina, natanawan ko ang mamang ito, basa sa ulan at marumi ang kasuotan. Katatapos lang kasi ng ulan kaya...
Invasion of Privacy vis-à-vis Citizen Journalism
Nineteen Eighty-Four was a novel by George Orwell published in 1949. It was about his view of a controlled society where the people didn’t have...
Blog Watch, three years after
Blog Watch formally launched on November 24, 2009 with the help of the Philippine Online Chronicles who hosts our feature articles at blogwatch.ph. https://blogwatch.tv.s175152.gridserver.com is...
Malala: A girl of courage #MalalaDay #IamMalala
Malala Yousufzai, a 14 year-old advocate of her right to education. Malala told in one of CNN’s interview: “I have the right of education, I...