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#AnimatED: Marcos, Duterte and burying our history
Incoming President Rodrigo Duterte likes to project himself as a quick-fix man. When he sees a problem, he tends to throw a solution with little regard for the consequences to values and principles.His...
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A step in the right direction for renewables in the PH
The renewable energy industry might just get another boost that it needs to become competitive with traditional fossil fuels.The National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) just recommended an additional...
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The answer is yes: Questions for young leaders
(This is a plenary speech delivered on May 29 at Ugnayan 2016, which gathered members of the National Alliance of Youth Leaders from across the Philippines and Indonesia.)Why are we here? This...
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Dear President-elect Duterte: On solving the traffic crisis
Dear Mr. President,I've been writing on the Metro Manila traffic problem for more than 15 years now, through 3 presidents and more MMDA chairmen than I can count. During that time we've watched traffic...
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The silence of the lambs emboldens Hannibal
By every account, Pius XII was a saintly pope, shepherding the Church through one of the most difficult periods of history — the horror that was the Second World War. An accomplished diplomat he was...
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Dear President Rody Duterte
I thought of writing you about something you love doing, an activity you revel in: talking.The first time I listened to you was at the Rappler candidates’ forum at the De La Salle University early this...
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Change our rice policy
I hope the newspapers are wrong when they reported that the incoming Duterte administration will recentralize all rice imports under the National Food Authority (NFA) by removing all private sector...
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What you didn’t know: Pro-Marcos propaganda too hip for its own good
The original definition of hipster (prior to indie rock and beards) was someone “in the know.” Unlike plebs who fell for mainstream ideas about politics and culture, hipsters were said to know better....
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A distinct Mindanao experience under Mayor Duterte
I have been a resident of Davao City for the last 33 years. I came here with a team of young University of the Philippines (UP) idealists to do a joint project research under the Third World Studies...
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Rodrigo Duterte: Whom should he emulate?
“[A]ll men of sense,” one of America’s most imaginative founding fathers Alexander Hamilton once said, “will agree in the necessity of an energetic executive.” For Rodrigo Duterte’s legions of...
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Keys to Leni Robredo's improbable journey
Once in a rare while, the country chances upon a reluctant candidate who, during the brief period of the campaign, transforms into a natural leader. Confident and committed, Leni Robredo communicated...
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Why Duterte should support renewable energy
Among Rodrigo Duterte's promises of change, tho one that strongly resonates with the electorate is the assurance of genuine upliftment of working class life: lower taxes, job creation and security, and...
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Mayor Digong, that was not the point
He repeated what I had fervently hoped he would no longer mention. In front of a jubilant crowd in Crocodile Park – inauspicious, if you ask me – Digong once more took a swipe at the Catholic Church...
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#AnimatED: Impunity at our doorsteps
Journalists are not special, not by any means. We may be among the more visible professions in the frontlines but we are not more important than the rest. This is the context in which we view the...
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Digong the story-teller
Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte's thanksgiving speech on June 4 in Davao was a marvel to behold, even on video. It was on semiotic overdrive. While recapitulating the usual themes of his campaign – the need...
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[Dash of SAS] Talk Du-dirty to me
Oooh, Digong, what have you done to me? To us?Ummm…every day we wait breathlessly for what I know will be another day of biting remarks, expletives and verbal ejaculations like that most recent wolf...
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Allahu Akbar: A young Moro's open letter to Duterte
Still a month into your inauguration, change — "real change" — is palpable in the air sweeping through the Moroland.These days, many Moro people find inspiration from your boldness. Your seething anger...
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What a Duterte government means for Sino-Philippine relations
With the election of the 16th president of the Philippines and anticipation of the upcoming ruling of Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, Netherlands, on the case initiated by the Philippines...
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Mindanao: Huge challenge for Duterte
A long time ago, we survived through worldwide crises including the Middle East oil embargo and the rocketing global interest rates.Amid the country’s aspirations of industrial development to compete...
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Cordillerans on talks with communists: Give peace a chance
The Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) supports the call for the resumption of the formal peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of...
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