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#AnimatED: God! We hate martial law!
Fear, Mr. President, is what you want to instill in our hearts and minds. Easily, you picked out a tool in your arsenal of scare tactics, provoked by the words of the Chief Justice, reminding you of...
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The hermeneutics of bayani
Let's admit that "bayani" is so ambivalent that really just about anyone's burial there or at any shrine can be the subject of a protracted, pointless debate. Was Aguinaldo a bayani? And Bonifacio? And...
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The hermeneutics of bayani
Let's admit that "bayani" is so ambivalent that really just about anyone's burial there or at any shrine can be the subject of a protracted, pointless debate. Was Aguinaldo a bayani? And Bonifacio? And...
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Please don't kill my father
Just like President Duterte, I hate drugs. I want to eradicate it in this society. Almost every day, I ask myself why does it have to exist. More than its societal impact, it also destroyed my family...
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China: Checking the boxes for fear of true global humiliation
We’ve heard solutions and non-solutions to the Chinese aggressive actions in the South China Sea, and an official statement from Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr calling for restraint and...
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The Filipino Millennial?
Millennials broadly refer to youth born in the 1980s and 1990s. They came of age at the turn of the new millennium.But when commentators describe Filipino youth as millennials, they typically refer to...
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Facing the tougher challenge
It has all the elements of the telenovelas that enamor this curious nation that we are — a married man falling for a highly-placed woman, uncoupled from her earlier partner by a failed marriage, power...
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#AnimatED: Hope in Oslo
Marathon talks between the Philippine government and the communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) start today in Oslo, Norway, with both parties inching to an elusive peace deal.Hopes are high...
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10 reasons I'm now a Dutertian
I used to be against Duterte because of his endorsement of extrajudicial killings, his desire to bury Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani and his beastliness against an Australian WOMAN missionary;...
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Epicenters of fatalities in the war on drugs
This article presents a very preliminary empirical analysis of the fatalities unofficially linked to the government’s anti-drug campaign during the period from 30 June to 18 August 2016.It derives...
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Cusi should be digging for roots of power inadequacy problem
After assigning a 100-day task team to look into existing service contracts and ways of lowering electric bills, Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi has now embarked on a new audit of the...
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Lessons on cash transfers to disaster victims
When I headed the Philippine Statistical Association Inc. (PSAI), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) invited the PSAI to conduct a third party evaluation of its Unconditional Cash Transfer...
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#NoPlaceForHate: Change comes to Rappler's comments thread
Starting today, we will be aggressively deleting crude and disrespectful posts and comments that violate standards of civility.Debates and discourse have always been anchored on basic principles of...
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#NoPlaceForHate: Bagong patakaran sa Rappler comments thread
Simula sa araw na ito, agresibo naming buburahin ang mga bastos at magaspang na posts at comments. Kailangang ibalik ang kaayusan at respeto sa debate at diskurso. Hindi namin palulusutin ang mga...
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#NoPlaceForHate: Ang mga kausaban sa Rappler comments thread
Sugod karung adlawa, among hingusgan ang pagtangtang sa mga bastos nga mga komento nga nakalapas sa sukdanan sa maayong pamatasan.Ang mga debate ug diskurso kanunay natong i-angkla sa prinsipyo sa...
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STAKEOUT: Huwag matulog sa pansitan
Para sa mga police reporter noong huling bahagi ng dekada 80 hanggang dekada 90 – mga panahong sumisibol pa lamang ang ating naibalik na demokrasya – ang salitang "stakeout" ay tunog musikang “rock...
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#NoPlaceForHate: Baro a pagalagadan iti Rappler comments thread
Manipud ita nga aldaw, agresibo kami a mangikkat kadagiti bastos ken nagubsang a posts ken comments a saan a maikanatad iti nasayaat a sursuro. Dagiti debate ken diskusyon agsanggirda iti prinsipyo ti...
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Nasaan ang iyong kapatid?
Halos 2,000 tao na ang napapatay sa giyera kontra droga. Kamakailan, naglabas ng sulat pastoral tungkol dito si Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, obispo ng Kalookan. Narito ang full text ng kanyang sulat...
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[Dash of SAS] It's time to stop telling women what to wear at the beach
When Aheda Zanetti was designing the burkini, she took a prototype out for a swim at the public pool. Zanetti was relieved that her design passed the test – the headband stayed in place – but she also...
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#AnimatED: War has come to our conversations
Something is happening to our democratic fabric. Malicious, hostile and offensive people are ripping it apart, tearing at it. In public places like the social media and comments sections of news...
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