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How Do You Solve A Problem Like PCG Jay Tarriela?
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Until recently, this name was buried in the dustbin of Philippine bureaucracy. That is until he staged his one-man war against China, carelessly feigning he is the world’s chief arbiter when it comes to international law, a feat Roilo Golez, Albert del Rosario, Antonio Carpio, Richard Heydarian, Jay Batongbacal, Dindo…
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Role of American Neo-Cons in The EDSA Counter-Revolution
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Part One: Factual Context of the Decline of the Marcos Regime Thirty-seven years ago on February 25, hundreds of thousands Filipinos marched to Epifanio de Los Santos Avenue to respond to a call by Jaime Cardinal Sin for people to wedge between putchists holed in Camp Crame and advancing marines…
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Hindi Maaaring Ipirma ng Presidente Ang Kapahamakan ng Buong Sambayanan
Ni Mauro Gia Samonte Sigaw ni Bongbong, “Hey, ya, sabi ng mamamayan mo, ‘fucking faggot,’ wag mong ipagyabang yang pagwasak mo sa Ukraine. Minsan nang ginawa ‘yan ni MacArthur sa Pilipinas noong 1945, kaya kong gawin uli ngayon ‘yan. Di mo ba nakikita? Inaprubahan ko na ang dagdag na base militar ng…
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The ‘spy balloon’ saga bursts
By Herman Tiu Laurel The NPR (National Public Radio) is a quasi-autonomous, government-funded nonprofit media outlet created by the US federal government. On its Feb. 16 headline blared ‘Biden says the 3 aerial objects shot down were not Chinese spy balloons’… President Joe Biden will soon speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the…
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Are the AFP and Americans Staging A Soft Coup Against Marcos Jr?
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Part 2: Where is our Independent Foreign Policy? The latest version of the MAA is the Mutual Logistics Support Agreement renewed in 2017 providing the legal mechanism to access locally sourced resources abroad, while also benefiting the broader bilateral relationship with the Philippines and providing the foundation for the bilateral…
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BBM risks China’s ire, Economic rebound
By Herman Tiu Laurel So, the Ayungin Shoal-BRP Sierra Madre resupply run and “military laser” pointing from a Chinese Coast Guard ship at a Philippine Cost Guard ship was made a sensational issue, with the pitiful Coast Guard spokesman Commodore Armand Balilo lying that the Chinese “violated international law” by the “offensive” and “unsafe”…
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The War vs. War, a War vs. US wars
By Herman Tiu Laurel A huge anti-War protest rally is expected to be held in Washington this Sunday February 17, 2023 on the anniversary of the Ukraine War and President’s Day Weekend, it’s dubbed “Rage Against the War Machine!” Speakers at the event are now famous anti-US wars dissenters Jimmie Dore, Medea Benjamin, Scott…
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Rage Against Proxy War: Reject EDCA, Joint Patrol: Princess Lady Ann Sahidulla Statement
Statement February 15, 2023 Forum on “Rage Against Proxy War: Reject EDCA, Joint Patrol” The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement is a mere executive agreement which is being made to appear as if it is a treaty that is meant to assure Filipinos that the latter will be protected by America from any threat of aggression…
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Rage Against Proxy War: NO to EDCA, Joint Patrols
Wednesday,February 15, 202310 am Zoom ID: 865-1927-8450https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86519278450 Kamuning Bakery CafeHybrid “Pandesal Forum”Judge Jimenez Street corner K-1st Street,Barangay Kamuning , Quezon City
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How low can BBM go? Too low!
By Herman Tiu Laurel How often have we heard that line about the Filipino being able to bend like the bamboo? Some are raising that adage again to justify the bowing of President Bongbong Marcos, Jr. to the diktats of the Americans imposing the unconstitutional and oppressive expanded EDCA bases and the US-PHIL joint…
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Are the AFP and Americans Staging A Soft Coup Against Marcos Jr?
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Part 1: Weeding Out The Fiction from The Facts I was floored by a Facebook meme blaming the Philippine senators who voted in 1991 to cancel our Military Bases Agreement with the United States, as the culprits that caused all our problems in the South China Seas. The implication…
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Averting the “Ukraine in the Philippines” scenario
By Herman Tiu Laurel February 6, 2023 Media Forum with ACPSSII, PM, others. The real intention behind the now expanded 9 US bases in the Philippines is exposed in the recent statement of the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) prime mover of the US-Philippines defense cooperation Gregory Poling, “… access to…