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Western Arms is like a dog: Loud bark, effeminate bite
AFTER more than two years since the start of Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ (SMO) in February 2022, targeting the eastern part of Ukraine to save from certain annihilation its…
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Finding a better use for the mainstream Western media
“MAGANDANG pambalot ng tinapa” (Good as a fish wrap). This is how flea market vendors refer to the way they make use of newspapers after they have bought them and read their contents,…
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No amount of money can improve our own security
FOR the current fiscal year, it was announced that our Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) would be getting a huge slice of our national budget to the tune of P40 billion for its…
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What is the ‘New Approach’ to the War on Drugs?
OVER the course of the last two weeks, the authorities have confiscated two major shipments of illegal drugs worth over P6 billion, nearly aggregating the more than P6.7 billion worth…
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As stupid as it gets
IF the majority of Filipinos continue to entertain the belief that there is still “hope” for them to regain the respect of the international community by a clear demonstration of our…
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What Uncle Sam wants, Uncle Sam gets
REPEATEDLY and for the nth time, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assured Filipinos that the increasing number of US military in the Philippines, particularly the three of the four new…
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When the police is ‘The Syndicate’
LAST Monday, April 24, 2023, the country watched the assumption of P/MGen. Benjamin Acorda Jr., as the 30th Director General (Chief PNP) of the Philippine National Police and the…
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The start of our suffering and anxiety
WITH the completion of the initial new four US military bases in the country, all of them—in Cagayan, Isabela and Palawan—directly connected with US war planning against China, the…
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The PCG should get its priorities in order
ON March 16, 2023, some two weeks after the ‘converted’ oil tanker, ‘M/T Princess Empress’ sunk off the coast of Naujan, Oriental Mindoro, the damage has become so extensive that the…
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What is “wrong” with our national mentality?
LAST October 22, 2022 (see link here) and then again last November 14, 2022 (see link here), and even as far back as September 26, 2022 (see link here), we editorialized our warning…
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