We are in the clutches of a sweltering summer helped along by the El Nino phenomenon but Gloria Macapagal Arroyo may have just opened the faucet, the corruption faucet that is.
Corruption: Our Bane, Her Legacy
February 26, 2010 By 15 Comments
Who will carry forward the project of ’86?
February 13, 2010 By 37 Comments
The Spirit of ’86 remains an unfinished project. Take note for example the parallel in how easily the Nazis were de-Nazified and returned to business as usual in Germany and in how discretely the Marcos loyalists were de-Marcosified and allowed to restore themselves to their pre-EDSA statuses (think of Danding who fled with the dictator [...]
Funding Fudges
January 7, 2010 By 22 Comments
Among the kleptocratic absurdities inflicted in 2009 one that elicited the most responses was the existence of a corruption cartel involving our highest officials, their relatives and “relevant local media” as described by the World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity. Karl Garcia recalled in particular a judicial decision that unintentionally predicates perpetuation, providing as it [...]
The Challenge of the Next President of the Philippines
November 18, 2009 By 34 Comments
In Ham and Eggs, I wrote that the time for staying in the sidelines is over. That the choice shouldn’t be made on election day, but right now. That each Filipino must choose now, who their candidate is. I’ve also mentioned that my personal barometer for success– no matter who wins in next year’s contest [...]
Corruption And The 2010 Elections
May 26, 2009 By 69 Comments
Is it really that hard?
April 29, 2009 By 5 Comments
I’ve been so busy extolling how so many of the issues that plague Philippine society are really so simple that it never occurred to me to ask another equally simple question: Is it that hard? That’s a question I credit to commenter BongV who asks in a recent comment: For example, corruption. How hard is [...]
World Bank Says Contractors Have Detailed Report
February 9, 2009 By 5 Comments
What’s Up For The Next Generation Of Filipinos?
December 22, 2008 By 35 Comments
Amidst the flurry of political and economic tsunamis besetting our country,we need to pause and think that what we do will benefit our children or the next generation of Filipinos. I do appreciate the flurry and confluence of ideas and views that somehow influence the readers of the FV articles but we need to do [...]
The pit of our own making
December 3, 2008 By 11 Comments
I first read about the story of textbook crusader Antonio Calipjo-Go when I was a PhD candidate in Australia, Apprently he had made an advocacy of detecting errors in basic education textbooks. I never saw anything wrong with that. All writers make errors textbook writers not excepted. That’s why publishing houses hire editors of all [...]
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