Exactly 41 years ago, the First Quarter Storm (FQS) in the Philippines

I am currently commuting between Al Jazeera English (AJE) live stream, Twitter, Facebook, CNN, BBC, GMail, and Star Sports–monitoring the popular uprising in Egypt and the Australian Open men’s finals. I suddenly remembered where I was and what I was doing exactly forty-one (41) years ago. At the time, at around 7:30 pm, I was [...]

Mubarak is to Obama (as Marcos was to Reagan)

Willie Colozo, another good friend on Facebook asked out loud if anybody had a sense that embattled Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will “cut and cut cleanly.” He was obviously alluding to the telephone exchange between a similarly embattled (by people power) Ferdinand Marcos in February 1986 with US Senator Paul Laxalt (Republican-Nevada).  The latter was [...]

Introducing the Egyptian anti-Mubarak resistance

Who, what is the anti-Mubarak resistance in Egypt? Resistance to the thirty-year-old Hosni Mubarak government is not spontaneous and did not develop overnight. Wikipedia has the following lines to enlighten us. _________________________________________________________________________________ Kefaya (Egyptian Arabic: كفاية kefāya, IPA: [keˈfæːjæ], “enough”) is the unofficial moniker of the Egyptian Movement for Change (Arabic: الحركة المصرية من أجل التغيير‎ el-Haraka el-Masreyya men agl el-Taghyeer), a grassroots [...]

And the trophy (for better or for worst? acting) goes to…

Was it just a coincidence that I blogged on military corruption earlier this month?  Was it also a coincidence that it was one and continues to be one of the most read entries of this blog? Yesterday, we were given during the public hearings at the Senate a glimpse into the industrial anatomy of corruption [...]