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Joel Pablo Salud

National ID system: firestorm in the making

  In a world where big data is at your fingertips, information has ceased to become knowledge. It is currency. As currency, keeping big data safe...

Duterte’s inferno

Rodrigo Duterte and Dante Alighieri share one thing in common: they’ve been to Hell and back. The only difference is while author Dante Alighieri had...

In celebration of the children of solitude

*Inspired by a piece written by Donald Hall in the New Yorker magazine titled “Between Solitude and Loneliness” Some look at a tree and see...

A writer’s letter to Mang Tomas

Dear Mang Tomas, To be twice orphaned in one day: it’s something I wouldn’t wish on anyone—not even you. My decision, however, is final: I...

Paedophilia is child rape—period

Remember the time when dystopian novels written by George Orwell and Ray Bradbury—1984 and Fahrenheit 451, respectively—were but fantasy books to be read within...

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...

In the Neighborhood of ‘Suspects’: a closer look at what could be the New Inquisition

Imagine an ordinary day. You drag yourself dutifully out of bed towards the nearest light rail station, hoping to get to your destination not...

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...

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...

Lumad Displacement: a continuing social crisis

With little more than skin and bones to call their own, some makeshift schools for their children, and a patch of forest as source...