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The dialectic of violence: When blood stains our condiments

Red in the face. Not because of anger, but her own blood. The 56-year-old woman in the photo-graph was one of roughly 300 NutriAsia supporters and workers who attended an ecumenical service around noon of July 30, Monday, within company grounds. NutriAsia is located...

Practical theory

Are we ladies protesting too much?  The intention was good, but is it fair to damn the Angono police as leading women to somewhere infernal?  How good is good advice if it comes unsolicited from men?  Before answering, let’s hear what the men...

Much ado over media regulation

Media should not—ever—be regulated by government. That would defeat the democratic principle of a free and independent press, one of the best benchmarks for measuring the strength of a nation and its democracy. All efforts to regulate the media will be met with a...

Blood, sweat, and political bluster heighten in raging July

A spree of violence contrasted with presidential attempts at religious peace-making as the first week of July rolled on the blood of two mayors, two vice mayors, a councilor, and a radio broadcaster while President Rodrigo Duterte committed to mend fences with the...

By farce of arms

Many mythologies tell stories of men, some heroic, others not, whose might and power gave them an aura of invincibility stronger than any armor. What they had in common was a vulnerability that, if exposed, made it possible to defeat them. There was...

How poetry and freedom mix

It isn’t often one gets to do a sit-down interview under the spreading branches of an acacia tree, while sprawled on one’s trench coat over green, fragrant grass. But that’s how an interview with a poet can go. Once journalist, poet and translator Tammy...

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What next?

The proof is in the protractor.  When President Duterte describes himself as a “left-leaning” President, be advised not to take his words at face...

Of Iyot and other demons

We have seen the changing of the official mouthpiece guard at the Palace. From the soft-spoken, interpretation-heavy baritone of a former pastor now ex-Secretary...

Fund-raiser for Marawi by PDP Laban Cares

The advanced movie screening at the Center Square Cinemas in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City also served as a venue where the PDP...

All downhill from there

Once you start a boulder rolling downhill, there is no hope of stopping it.  It is equally hopeless to push it back uphill as...