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OPINION: Marcos was still healthy for New York indictment

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at May 18 01:38 AM

Had the late President Ferdinand Marcos lived longer, he would also have been meted a well-justified disbarment judgement. Read more »

OPINION: The last soiree of Marcos

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at May 10 08:37 PM

Ferdinand E. Marcos could not have known that it was going to be his last soiree! Read more »

OPINION: Marcos could have lived longer but…..

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at May 03 07:36 PM

Did Ferdie indulge in self-induced medical brinkmanship? Was his death, when it happened, the fatal backfire of that brinkmanship? Read more »

OPINION: The Marcos medical maneuvers (2)

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Apr 27 09:58 AM

Ferdinand Marcos was indeed sick. But not too sick to face the charges of racketeering.  Read more »

The Marcos medical maneuvers (1)

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Apr 20 02:10 AM

In order to establish Ferdinand Marcos' physical condition upon the start of his exile, immediately after a harrowing fall from power just a few days earlier, here are a couple of eyewitness accounts. Read more »

OPINION: Ferdinand E. Marcos alias William Saunders alias Tony Bundoc

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Apr 12 08:03 PM

Ferdie died using an alias! Read more »

OPINION: Political use of Marcos' medical condition

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Apr 05 09:33 PM

Already in Hawai’ian exile, deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos' medical condition was an overt tool in the undisguised political game they were scheming.  Read more »

OPINION: Prologue: Remembering the Marcoses in exile

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Mar 28 11:44 PM

I have no answer to the moral question: “Why did God punish us by unleashing Ferdie and Meldy upon our fair land? I have long accepted that, somehow, we deserved them. Read more »

OPINION: Imee, another 'Marcos'

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Mar 22 07:04 PM

Indeed, she is another Marcos. So Marcos in fact, she is the same old fraud. Like her father, the unlamented deposed dictator. Read more »

OPINION: Hooked on history....and loving it

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Mar 17 12:16 PM

After a lapse of seventy years, I am about to sit down again before another Filipino historian. An eminent academic, a highly regarded and admired Filipino expatriate university professor, thinker and author.  Read more »

Should the Catholic church unsheathe? A Samar parish priest has shown the way

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Mar 09 03:48 PM

 When a nation’s very governance itself becomes a moral and social issue, it becomes perforce the obligation of the church to express its public participation in the conduct of her guidance and counselling over what is perceived and accepted as “the right thing to do.”  Read more »

OPINION: A Filipino view of Trump cornered and unravelling

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Mar 02 03:48 PM

Pres. Donald J. Trump is cornered and hemmed in, with the noose tightening. In a House that is not beholden to and not under the control of  their President, you can be sure that impeachment is in the horizon.    Read more »

OPINION: Alay sa OFW: Pananaw, puna, paalala at payo

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Feb 16 05:14 AM

Hindi lamang pang-ekonomiya ang tulong na naidudulot ng ating mga overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) sa bansa at sa kanilang mga kapamilya.   Read more »

OPINION: The Marionettes of Malacañang

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Feb 02 06:01 AM

Or why the Philippine legislature is quite unlike any other, the world over.  Read more »

OPINYON: Hoy! Bata batuta, Kriminal ka ba?

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Jan 26 06:37 PM

Sa buong kamundohan, ang karapatang gulang (age of majority or adulthood) ay 18. Ang igiit na may karapatang gulang na ang batang 12 lang ang edad ay pawang kahibangan. Read more »

OPINION: The Gullibles’ Travails

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Jan 20 03:23 AM

From Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," a classic ‘satire of human folly,’ we take a punster’s license and attempt to compose a critique on the serial contemporary political and moral quagmire from which we, as a nation, are obviously still unable to extricate. Read more »

Disaster response: Silver lining and a grim remembering

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jan 12 12:21 PM

Calbayog folks, in diaspora around the globe, and more so, those back home, ought to take pride in the spontaneous display of caring, sharing, optimism and positivity in the Usman relief effectively launched at home. Exemplary voluntarism in effective display. Read more »

OPINION: That survey -- disconnect and doubt

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jan 05 01:21 AM

There are lingering unresolved doubts from 2018 that inevitably carried over to the New Year. One that came to mind rather prominently is the first bone I would like to pick on as 2019 begins to roll along: the Presidential performance satisfaction survey. Read more »

OPINION: The Sunday Tribune -- Our colonial society & gov't in pictures

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Dec 28 07:28 PM

Our title today encapsulates the treasure trove of mostly Manila memorabilia photographs preserved in the rotogravured Sunday Tribune magazines. Read more »

Treasured Manila memories in Rotogravure

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Dec 21 09:34 PM

JOHNSON CITY, Texas -- A very rare collection of Manila’s premier weekend magazine, the Sunday Tribune, from 1937 through to early 1941, is now in my custody destined for its permanent home, the Filipinas Heritage Library (FHL) of the Ayala Museum. Read more »