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My State of the Nation Address

Since I can remember, I have always equated the fight for our rights and freedoms with hope. For what use would struggling for our freedoms have if hope leaves much to be desired? If pessimism and cynicism had taken root and all we...

Of Patsies, Pushovers, and Puppets

July 2018, Helsinki. U.S. President Donald Trump met with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin in what is deemed by former Central Intelligence Chief John Brennan as “nothing short of treasonous”. Trump denied U.S. Intelligence claims that Russia had a hand in the 2016 U.S....

New charter: as old as tyranny itself

We believe that any unnecessary interference with the public will is not merely a tyranny but a folly Undue legal interference goes even further with its folly than this, since, by denying to a free people so large an amount of their...

The danger of illusions

As I write this, the Consultative Committee has unanimously approved the draft of the new Charter allowing Federalism “without any objection” (based on a 03 July report by Mike Navallo of ABS-CBN News). The 22-member ConCom is headed by former Chief Justice Reynato...

Philosophy at half-past three

Early last week, a fifteen-year-old boy, one I’ve considered a son, wept after he paid me a visit early in the afternoon of Monday. He messaged me sometime half past midnight. Thinking that his mother would approve, he related snapshots of our six-hour-long...

‘It feels like 1972 again’

I remember the political and social landscape of the time all too well. The previous months saw an increasingly restless activism take on line after line of riot police in an attempt to warn the public of a looming dictatorship. The engagements had been...

Random Pickings

5 Things I need to do in 2019

The New Year heralds hope. Well, at least, that’s what we all want to believe. Kinda like kicking off a new beginning after the previous...

Caligula and the weaponization of humiliation

I’m no historian. Call me a history buff with an insatiable liking for what is either vintage or ancient. I love reading anything that...

Communism is not a crime

    First a disclaimer: while I may have loved my wife Che for the last 12 years and addressed her as Commandante (because of her...

Isolated cases or cases of isolation?

“Fake” news. Stupid commentaries. Irresponsible repartees to intelligent criticism. Reckless speeches. Senseless policies. Silly and laughable propaganda. Ill-advised decisions. Lies, lies and more lies. After...