Caveat: On fake sensationalized and biased news
Caveat Lector! Recently, In my Facebook news feed I saw a piece of news about a Canadian freelance journalist talking about how the Western Media...
The importance of defending and developing our archipelago nation
An island nation in order to defend itself must have mastery over its seas. This is evident in the story of the English people. It...
Misogyny in the Philippines: A deep-seated societal and familial problem
The Oxford Dictionaries define misogyny as “dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women”. Sexual harassment, on the other hand, is defined as “unwelcome...
Duterte: Christmas present and future
My main problem with a number of news both local and foreign is their habit of focusing on snapshots of events. Sometimes even the analysis...
5 contributions from the media towards a sensible drug war
The Duterte era is really here and it’s difficult not to notice the changes. Obviously, many of these changes have been highly contentious, particularly when...
Rich kids to get free tuition courtesy of poor Muslim families
The re-distribution in the 2017 budget of Php8 billion worth of funds from poor Muslim communities to provide free tuition to state university students constitutes...
Isn’t it ironic? Trump saving PH-US ties, Duterte’s battle against oligarchs, guilt by groufie (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part 1 Guilt by picture taking This week the Senate conducted a hearing on the death of Mayor Espinosa (allegedly a case of...
Isn’t it ironic? Trump saving PH-US ties, Duterte’s battle against oligarchs, guilt by groufie (Part 1 of 2)
Trump’s win appears to have softened Duterte’s stance towards the US. There’s no running out of ironies in the Philippines, especially when it comes to...
Millennials: From ‘couch potatoes’ to street warriors; from Katipunan to Luneta (Part 2)
To read Part 1 of this article, click here. But it was still raining. Would the students come? They did! Slowly the area...
Millennials: From ‘couch potatoes’ to street warriors; from Katipunan to Luneta (Part 1)
MILLENNIALS. Deserving or not, millennials have oftentimes been placed into a box and labeled. This article juxtaposes the average millennial between their good and not...
Ending endo: Keeping the promise
It looks like DOLE (Department of Labor and Employment) is serious in ensuring companies are compliant to the existing labor regulations. I have a client...
Hazard resilient agriculture practices in the Philippines
One of the news item that caught my attention a few weeks ago was the prediction of scientists that 2017 would be hotter than 2016:...
Trump: Populism and Isolationism
Along with my fellow bloggers Noemi Lardizabale-Dado and Jane Uymatiao we watched the US Election at a viewing party hosted by the United States Embassy...
Social Media Part 2: Defense against the dark digital arts
In Part 1, We took a look at the Internet and Social Media. Who owns it? The story of the Little Red Rooster illustrates that...
Oops they did it again…From stolen riches to panakaw na libing
The Marcos burial was patago, panakaw, pakapalan. It’s not how a real hero’s burial is supposed to be held. After siphoning billions during the dictatorship,...