There are four-letter words and there are 4-letter words. You are obviously familiar with the F-word. Today at the Senate impeachment court hearing the case against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato C. Corona, a new four-letter word was introduced. What was this new word? Waah! Who introduced it? The honorable gentlelady from Iloilo, Senator-Judge Miriam [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Four-letter words
Posted: February 29, 2012 in Chief Justice Renato Corona, Impeachment trial, Philippine politics, Senator Juan Ponce-Enrile, Senator Miriam Defensor-SantiagoTags: Philippine political comedy, Philippine politics
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EDSA People Power 1986: Fading Luster and Revisionist History
Posted: February 25, 2012 in Cory Aquino, Disappearances, Ferdinand Marcos, Historical revisionism, Human rights, Mahatma Gandhi, Marcos dictatorship, Ninoy Aquino, Non-violent politics, People power, Philippine political history, Portugal's Carnation Revolution, Torture, White-wash of Marcos wrong-doingTags: Philippine politics, Philippines
Twenty six years ago today, a failed military coup that morphed into a popular uprising finally ousted and forced the flight of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his close family members and associates to Hawaii after four days. Notwithstanding the presence of armed soldiers on both sides, the uprising was largely non-violent and introduced ‘people [...]
Early last year, this blog housed the Forging a New Philippine Foreign Policy (FNPFP) blog temporarily. The FNPFP blog is actually a by-product of a multi-disciplinary project, which I am part of, in the University of the Philippines Diliman entitled Thematic Assessment of Philippine Foreign Relations. Now,the project (and the blog) has a permanent home in cyberspace. [...]
