Covid-19: A Tale of Two Presidents
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!
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Book review: ‘All Flowers Bloom’ by Kawika Guillermo
Kawika Guillermo is the pseudonym for the mundane academic, Christopher B. Patterson,Assistant Professor in the Social Justice Institute of UBC. ( Photo: UBC) All Flowers Bloom by Kawika Guillermo Westphalia Press, March 2020 345 Pages / Amazon Reviewed by Vincent Ternida Ever since their first incarnation, Soul 871 has been drawn towards their soul mate
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June 7th: National Migrant Workers Day
Filipinas dining out at a Philippine restaurant in Adelaide, Australia. Photo: Jeremaiah Opiniano Updated
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EDITORIAL | The bully and the cowards
By: InterAksyon August 18, 2016 7:26 PM InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 Beyond the misogyny, the hypocrisy, and the plain boorishness of President Rodrigo Duterte in his attack on Senator Leila de Lima, Digong’s latest outburst was an assault on the Senate, on Congress, on media, on all checks and balances enshrined in
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‘Dutertismo’ – The Philippine version of ‘Facism’
Public Lives By Randy David Philippine Daily Inquirer May 1, 2016 At the end of his rambling speeches before mesmerized crowds, presidential candidate and preelection poll frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte touches the Philippine flag that is brought to him on cue. He brings it to his lips, and solemnly proclaims: “Together let’s fix this country.” As
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Why do Filipinos love pageants?
For the Love of Pageants: Gender, Sex, Colonialism By May Farrales, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia (http://philippi.mywhc.ca/canada/colonialism-endures-in-basketball-and-beauty-pageants-says-researcher/) Why do Filipinos love pageants? I did not watch beauty pageants when I was growing up. I did not even watch the Miss Universe Pageant this year and only started following it to see how the news
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Never Forget: ‘We are the World'(a repost)
Reposting… Editor’s note: As we approach the end of September and memories of Martial Law in the Philippines forty eight years ago fades, we do well to keep re-telling history as it happened. For even as September ends, sinister voices in the motherland are hard at work to revise or even erase that history. These
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Despite controversy Pacquiao may still win, says InterAksyon
Bilang Pilipino (The Guardian, Feb. 19, 2016: But Pacquiao’s Instagram account seemed to back up his initial comments as a Bible quote appeared, reading: “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death;
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