Category: Solidarity for Sovereignty
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Manila Times Now Kowtows to Jukebox Scholars
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Normally, I let things like this one slide. But not when my favorite surviving broadsheet prints it.Headlined “China should ‘walk the talk’ in sea row”, Kristina Maralit wrote, “China may have misinterpreted the Philippines’ decision to grant the United States access to four more sites under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement…
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Instead of Crying Wolf, Senators Must Use Their Oversight Productively
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Francis Tolentino lost the 2016 elections based on his own merits. In 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte picked him up as part of the PDP Laban senatorial ticket, so he finally made it one among the 24 in the upper house of the Philippine Congress. Today, he serves as vice chair of the…
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Why They Are Putting Lipstick on American Military Bases
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Part Two: Galvez and Ano Engaged in Smokes and Mirrors Rita Gadi, perhaps Ferdinand Marcos Sr’s best loyalist, reminded me I must explain what a “red herring” is for a more exacting reference to Taiwan. I said, a smelly fish, and she added “using an irrelevant information to distract attention.” In the…
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Jurist Doctor Ventures on Unchartered Waters to Comment on EDCA
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Father Ranhilio Callangan Aquino came out with this article in the Manila Times (March 27, 2023), entitled “EDCA: To be or not to be”, which I am reprinting in full. But with all due respects, let me say that I have no comments on his first four paragraphs, to which he is…
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Taiwan A Red Herring for A Weak Link to US War in Asia
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Part One : “Takusa” is born in social media Now it is becoming clearer. The American claim that it must support Taiwan due to an impending invasion by China is a dead herring. From the beginning that it would be awkward for the US to do so first because it has adopted…
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Bongbong’s Joyride Reveals Skeletons in Air Force Closet
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan If Noynoy Aquino became legendary for his joystick skills at videogames, Marcos Junior went overboard, maybe unwittingly, risking his life and the Presidency for an actual joyride in one of the Philippine Air Force’s flying coffins. Actually, if only for the thrill for a “Top Gun” moment, he could have…
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Lone Ranger Bello Strikes Again: A Tonto Act in Taiwan
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan As if President Marcos Jr.’s challenges in making his government work were not enough, Migrant Worker Secretary Susana “Toots” Ople seems to be having difficulty having a former cabinet secretary as a subordinate. So as the whole world totters in suspense should the United States pivot its warmongering from Ukraine to…
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Mr. President, Verify Your Sources Before Jumping The Gun
By Ado Paglinawan 3-4-2022 | mymaestro@rocketmail.com | 0917-336-4366 Mr. Marcos, what kind of a president are you who would risk the good standing of your country with a friendly neighbor that a few weeks ago you said was our stronger partner in development? You summoned the ambassador of another country on the basis…
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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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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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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…