Bato, Oh Bato….
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa dramatically returned to the Philippine Senate after six months in hiding to evade ICC arrest in a chaotic hallway chase, later crying in front of reporters and comically singing his…
governance
Rice Is Soma In The Philippines
In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Soma is the ultimate tool of social control. A government-issued drug that delivers instant euphoria, erases unhappiness, and prevents citizens from questioning their engineered reality, Soma is the lynchpin…
What’s Wrong With the Philippines?
A diplomat, after a seven-year tour of duty in the Philippines, once christened the islands an “enchanting archipelago.” Whether he was merely being polite, or had succumbed to government pitchmen, or had himself become enchanted…