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At the edge of madness
Friday, 03 April 2026 04:11 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Last of a seriesBILLED as a clean decapitation strike, Operation “Epic Fury” fractured the post‑Cold War economic order triggering a cascading breakdown in global supply chains as longstanding guardrails erode. Donald Trump, pretending control over a conflict with no strategic…
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Architects of anarchy: Trump, Netanyahu, and the manufactured apocalypse
Thursday, 26 March 2026 04:21 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Second of a seriesTHE geopolitical shock of February 2026 was no accident. It was a manufactured crisis, an engineered rupture authored by the Katzenjammer Kids of global politics: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, acting with little regard for the consent…
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Architects of anarchy: Trump, Netanyahu, and the manufactured apocalypse
Thursday, 26 March 2026 06:20 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
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The week the world stopped: The Hormuz crisis
Wednesday, 18 March 2026 08:32 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
FIRST OF A SERIES SINCE Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s rise to power in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, removing him and his regime have always existed on the margins of American strategic thinking. However, it became a geopolitical obsession of one man:…
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The dynastic civil war: Why the 1987 Constitution is the battleground
Thursday, 12 March 2026 11:23 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
OVER the last three columns, we have peeled back the layers of the Philippine political onion to find a core that is not a vacuum of leadership, but a dense grid of familial controls. We have traced the trajectory from…
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Oligopolidyn: When wealth and power become one
Thursday, 05 March 2026 00:50 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Third of a four-part seriesIN the previous parts of this series, we explored how the Philippine state is not inherently “weak,” but is instead “captured” — its institutions repurposed to serve narrow interests rather than the common good. To understand…
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The Philippines is not a weak state, it is a captured one
Wednesday, 25 February 2026 09:35 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Second of a four-part seriesTHE first part of this series last week argued that the 39-year failure to implement the constitutional ban on political dynasties (polidyn) is not a matter of legislative delay, but a structural design rooted in a…
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From datus to dynasties, and why Congress now pretends to fix it
Thursday, 19 February 2026 02:22 Written by LML
First of a four-part seriesTHE sudden burst of legislative enthusiasm in both chambers of Congress to “finally operationalize” Article II, Section 26 of the 1987 Constitution — mandating the State to “guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service and…
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