While Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison was studiously careful not to endorse a presidential candidate in a recent Bulalat interview—endorsement being, after all, a validation of the very system that the CPP and its various arms would see consigned to the dustbin of history—I find it worth noting that, [...]
Clay Shirky: How Cellphones, Twitter, facebook Can Make History
June 17, 2009 By 15 Comments
Given yesterday, we were talking about how the Internet ought to be a human right, how lately twitter has been buzzing with Iranian elections and how Filipinos have been using Facebook and Twitter to get our point of view across, this tedtalk by Clay Shirky asks a very important question: “How can we best make [...]
The Internet ought to be a Human Right
June 16, 2009 By 41 Comments
The world is at a crossroad. Increasingly, (most especially in the last six months alone) we’ve seen an explosion of how the Internet has become a vector to spread information that governments prefer to be suppressed or mainstream media deem unworthy to be aired. Social Networks— particularly Facebook and Twitter have become a communications platform [...]
Ending Political Killings
May 6, 2009 By 12 Comments
Just yesterday this writer blogged about how the Philippines now ranks second to the African nation of Sudan in the number of internally displaced persons, some 600,000, in the face of the independent Norwegian Refugee Council calls “climate changes”.
Death squads?
April 13, 2009 By 11 Comments
The number of summary killings by so-called Death Squads in so far as Davao is concerned has pushed the panic button. There is now an emerging concern from various groups on how the brakes should be applied to this continuing scare affecting young children of not few families to the point many suspect if is [...]
Politics Has No Morality
February 12, 2009 By 44 Comments
Filipinos are always on the wrong side of the fence. We keep fawning at America and consider it critical to our survival as a nation the recognition that America would bestow upon us. We do not need anyone for our survival except ourselves. Other nations have crossed-path with America and instead of looking at these [...]
Random student drug testing?
January 18, 2009 By 22 Comments
The order of PGMA to launch nationwide random drug testing to students in both secondary and tertiary levels, occasioned as it was by the Alabang Boys’ controversy in recent memory – ought to have been carefully studied first since its implications are not few. It was the Chairman of the Drugs Dangerous Board, former Senator [...]
DOJ vs. PDEA
January 13, 2009 By 5 Comments
It seems discomforting to know that prosecutors of DOJ have to go on leave en masse on account of the rather faulty decision of Malacanang to have to place them on a preventive suspension. This unduly creates the public perception that the DOJ prosecutors involved in the now famous case of Alabang boys have in [...]
Power and Humanity
December 31, 2008 By 29 Comments
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln In power, we know a man’s character, and this weekend we saw just how much character some politicians and government officials have. As news erupted of the mauling that occurred at a golf course [...]
RP – Case of Catch 22
December 28, 2008 By 17 Comments
Let us suppose that Malacanang, Inc. has set for its goal-setting priority the whole agenda of going about charter change at the earliest time possible and – at whatever costs to pay. And then it succeeds despite massive opposition to it by people across the social stratification. Ergo, we either have a GMA playing role [...]
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