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Islamabad and the return of the nuclear shadow
Thursday, 16 April 2026 02:23 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
MOST people are fixated by the wrong indicators. They track inflation, fuel prices, grocery bills, the slow suffocation of household budgets. They measure distress in pesos, dollars, liters, kilowatts. But history is rarely decided in supermarkets or at gasoline pumps.…
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The silent victor of the war in Iran
Wednesday, 08 April 2026 10:18 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Last of a seriesTHE previous three installments of this series dissected how Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu precipitated the Iran war. On the surface, Netanyahu’s influence over Trump offered a masterful study of the puppeteer’s craft. Yet, at a deeper…
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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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