LML Polettiques (404)

No more New Year's resolution!

Wednesday, 04 January 2023 08:02 Written by
I WRITE my first column for 2023 at Heavenly Village in Lake Tahoe while on Christmas skiing holiday with my six grandchildren, ages 3 to 10, two pairs of parents, and a pair of grandparents. While Lolo and Momsie (Lola)…

US justice department: The son of God — a rapist!

Wednesday, 28 December 2022 10:33 Written by
THESE are serious accusations. And it is a measure of the inadequacy of our justice system that it has taken a foreign country to indict one of the Philippines' most powerful personalities, described as a shrewd businessman, an influential radio…

Harvard Bureaucrats Ball

Wednesday, 21 December 2022 08:57 Written by
LAST December 15, the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Association of the Philippines (HKSAAP) celebrated its 33 years in the country with a gala event, the Bureaucrats Ball, a tradition started at the Harvard Cambridge campus and replicated in the Philippines…

Maharlika: Consolidating 'kurakot' into one fund

Wednesday, 14 December 2022 14:56 Written by
SO, what's the fuss over this Maharlika Sovereign Wealth Fund that people who know nothing about investments are bitching about? As staunch apologist Secretary Ben Diokno declared: Maraming ... nagko-comment na hindi pa nababasa ata 'yung bill eh, so out…

BBM-Xi Jinping-Trump

Monday, 12 December 2022 10:17 Written by
TWO occurrences in China and America within the last quarter of 2022 could impact on world political events. This column's concerns revolve around how the new administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. reacts to them. The first is the anointing…

Kusog Mindanaw, BARMM and federalism

Thursday, 01 December 2022 09:49 Written by
Last of 2 partsFOR the past three decades, Kusog Mindanaw (Kusog) was the premier platform for its various stakeholders to air their concerns, gripes and aspirations. The strategy was to achieve whatever consensus is to be arrived at in view…

'Mindanao's revenge against imperial Manila is for BARMM to succeed'

Wednesday, 23 November 2022 07:25 Written by
This feature article by the editor in chief of MindaNews, Carol O. Arguillas, published Nov. 13, 2022, is reprinted here with the permission of the author.DAVAO CITY: The president of the Centrist Democracy Political Institute (CDPI) lamented the death of…

Kusog Mindanaw, bloody wars and BARMM

Wednesday, 16 November 2022 06:18 Written by
First of 2 partsLAST November 11, Vice President Sara Duterte keynoted the Kusog Mindanaw Conference in Davao City. For the past 28 years, most conferences have been conducted in Davao, being the most convenient venue for participants coming from all…
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