Reconsidering people power

I wrote the piece (with its URL below)  a year ago.  I am sharing it again believing it is still apropos given the upsurge of Arab people power and the 25th anniversary of Philippine people power aka EDSA I. In my lecture at Stanford two days ago on the state of democracy in the Philippines, [...]

Our leader…Gaddafi…our killer!

As usual, I am cyber-commuting.  I am currently in Vegas, in the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino Hotel to be exact, to attend the 13th meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) study group on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Asia Pacific which starts tomorrow [...]

Where’s the Egyptian embassy in Makati?

Last 31 January, I, together with my graduate students in International Political Economy (IPE) at the University of the Philippines, tried to deliver a letter to the Egyptian Embassy in the Philippines. The letter expressed our solidarity with the Egyptians struggling for freedom and human dignity and our concern on the violent police crackdown on [...]

Viva Egypt! Viva Bouazizi! Viva the Egyptian 300+!

Viva Egypt! After 18 days of non-stop, non-violent protests, marches, and general strikes, former air force general and supreme leader of Egypt for the last 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, skedaddles to a Sinai peninsula resort town while his designated VP Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak has resigned as Egypt’s president. The chairman of the Grand [...]