Applying genetics in the study of politics, we find that what the Americans birthed in 1946 was a monstrous Hispano-American state that inherited all the bad political and cultural genes of the Spanish colonial state and the American colonial state. From the very start, the genetic codes of this malformed state spelled anti-Filipino, anti-Filipino nationalism, anti-people, and anti-poor.
The festive atmosphere is of course a masquerade. Behind the merriment and the hullabaloo are the clandestine vote-buying and other shady deals that transpire in the dark between patrons and candidates. The patrons are usually figures from a political party or a political dynasty. . And there are more happenings between the candidates and followers, and so on and so forth. Oh, sometimes, between the contending bets themselves!
By DON J. PAGUSARA DAVAO TODAY It’s happening! And it’s happening in more terrible and ferocious fashion! There’s no need to ask: Where’s the Martial Law proclamation? It’s clear as…
By DON J. PAGUSARA Davao Today Amidst the raging militarization in the countryside, our farmers under the MASIPAG (Makabayan Syentipiko Para sa AGrikultura) Movement have been sweating it out to…
If Noynoy wants to be remembered as a statesman rather than as a politician, his best judgment would be to grant the outstanding demand of the people. Which is: to abolish the DAP or the presidential pork barrel system. This is his most formidable defense against any probe or query relating to the legality or morality of the DAP. This is his best defense!