Why does Bongbong Marcos seem to be sprightly showy in launching his political ambition? What energizes him so promptly at this stage of his career? He seems brimming with confidence that the future holds in store for him glowing scenarios of triumph in his climb towards the helm of power.
We often hear the accusation directed against political activists from the different youth groups, and even among the advocacy groups that support the Lumads’ struggle that they are guided by a foreign ideology, short of calling them communists.
It addles our mind how President Noynoy Aquino can ignore the rampant human rights abuses under his administration and point to the martial law regime of the Marcoses as rabid violators of the people’s human rights.
Watching the early morning TV newscast a day after the Kalag-kalag commemoration and seeing the gigantic heaps of basura at the cemeteries, my wife loudly clacked…
There is this very interesting segment of a news report about the on-going protest action waged by Lumads of Mindanao through their Manilakbayan – protest trek all the way from Mindanao to the NCR.
Common sense and simple logic will teach us that the de facto martial law that now prevails in the countryside is abhorred by the masses of the people.
And we can grasp the reason why the les miserables congregate and dare to storm the citadel of tyranny in order to secure for themselves social justice and liberty.
There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children – one is roots, the other, wings.
There has been a lot of noise that aims to drown out sacred truths in the annals of our nation. The sources of this pollutant noise are mouths that throw up self-serving distortions of historical facts.
Once upon a moment, when the cool Amihan breezed its gentle greeting and the Sun Monarch winked its golden radiance on the eastern realm, came this small banca to…