We beg to differ.
Should employers be influencing the political views of their employees? It brought the core of the controversy surrounding the limits to which an employer can influence her employees’ personal choices front and centre in what is evidently an unresolved debate. For that matter, the ethics around whether it is right for a person who enjoys…
The New People’s Army (NPA) “warrior” Jevilyn Cullamat is now dead. Her grieving mother, Bayan Muna Representative Eufemia Cullamat, described her as a “martyr” too perhaps hoping that some meaning could be harvested from the utter senselessness of her passing at the age of 22. Sadly it is unlikely that any meaning in hers and…
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Was Jevilyn Cullamat a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ terrorist arm, the New People’s Army (NPA)? According to a statement from the the Philippine military quoted in this Inquirer report, yes. …the Philippine Army said Jevilyn Campos Cullamat, or “Ka Rep,” who allegedly serves as a medic for the NPA, was killed…
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That remains to be seen. Then again, on second thought, hasn’t Leni Robredo always been on a campaign against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte? From Day One, “vice president” Leni Robredo remained on campaign mode against her own government long after the elections had been concluded and well into her (disputed) term as VP. She was…
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The following is a re-post of my article “Day Ten, post Ondoy” originally posted on FilipinoVoices.com on the 7th October 2009. The article has since been included in Elbert Or’s After the Storm: Stories on Ondoy, an excellent collection of pieces “mostly written in the midst of and immediately after the typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng…
Isn’t red the symbolic colour of the communist “movement”? Wasn’t the Kremlin, the seat of power of the now-defunct Soviet Union situated at Red Square? Isn’t the People’s Republic of China referred to as Red China? Aren’t the flags of these two former and current (respectively) commie empires predominantly red? Aren’t the flags of front…
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I wonder if celebrities Liza Soberano or Angel Locsin are trying to be heroes. They probably think that supporting movements that oppose something else is heroic. If not, maybe others think of them as such. But to me, that is a wrong view of heroism. Well, I slammed the idea of venerating heroes after all,…
Read More “The Concept of Heroism is Twisted by Celebrities as well as “Opposition”” »
They keep trying and trying to no avail. Today’s Filipino “activists” suffer from a crisis of public perception. They keep screeching about being “red tagged” yet continue flying red flags during their rallies. They insist they are not terrorists yet seem to choke on any words to denounce the Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP’s)…
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