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OPINION: Philippine history for Americans via US legislation

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Nov 01 09:56 AM

Our Filipino WW II veterans, collectively, now join a long list of earlier honorees of the US Congressional Gold Medal. Read more »

75 years after Battle of Leyte Gulf, we need to rethink how we fit in its narrative

Jam Pascual
Updated as of Oct 20 11:58 AM

First things first: General MacArthur barely plays a part. Seventy five years after the fact, we are still unable to truly comprehend what took place, and how it affected our country Read more »

[OPINION] The abuse of space: Manila’s 1943 ‘Nyoka’ moment

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Oct 18 04:51 PM

Must Metro Manila await the return of Nyoka? Read more »

'Foye and the Filipinos': A script that Hollywood missed

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Oct 12 07:10 AM

Here is a script that Hollywood missed. It is a true, fascinating story, as it is yet another paean to the Filipino-American love affair. Read more »

OPINION: The liberation of the Philippines, the steep price of freedom

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Sep 28 05:41 AM

The “Battle of the Philippines,” the liberation of the Philippines from Japanese occupation during World War II, was effectively and dramatically implemented at dawn of Oct. 20, 1944. Read more »

Martial Law baby

Sol F. Juvida
Updated as of Sep 21 02:01 PM

An activist and journalist from the years of Marcos’s military rule tells her story of raising a child during the country’s darkest hours Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 13, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 13 11:13 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »

Ninoy statue taken down

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 13 12:53 PM

Quezon City government workers remove the statue of the late Ninoy Aquino Jr. at the corner of Quezon and Timog Avenue on Friday, after its base was damaged by road-clearing operations of the DPWH. Read more »

Rains hamper Pinaglabanan Shrine's restoration in time for battle anniversary

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 30 04:16 PM

Stormy weather prevented the P50-million restoration of the Pinaglabanan Shrine in San Juan from being completed in time for the anniversary of a formative battle between Filipinos and Spanish colonizers on Friday. Read more »

'First Mass' in Limasawa: Fact or opinion?

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Aug 24 06:58 AM

That “First Mass” celebrated on Philippine soil was neither in Agusan nor in Limasawa, Southern Leyte. It was in Homonhon, a barangay in Guiuan, Eastern Samar. Read more »

August 10, 500 years ago: Pigafetta and an unresolved issue

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Aug 17 10:34 AM

As the country prepares for the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the first Europeans and the introduction of Christianity, the better way to participate and celebrate in this historic observation, is naturally, to know of and to understand more of Pigafetta. Read more »

A Filipiniana book lover’s delight

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Aug 03 04:15 PM

This is the first book about the Philippines, written in English by a Filipino, in the United States. Read more »

OPINION: The Philippines circa 1920s, part 2

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jul 20 07:04 AM

“The Isles of Fear’s” exposé and indictment also encompassed the tenure of Governor General Francis Burton Harrison. Ironically, from available history as we know it, Filipinos still rank F.B. Harrison highest in popularity among the list of American proconsuls assigned to minister to the Islands’ well-being. Read more »

The Philippines circa 1920s

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jul 13 02:54 AM

A reading of “The Isles of Fear” exemplifies the value of reaching out to a past,  as  a learning moment and still as an indispensable  guiding element in resolving  our still uncorrected infirmities in governance. Read more »

OPINION: Orphans of the Pacific – the Philippines

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jun 29 04:39 AM

Such was a very succinct appraisal/description of the country just before the outbreak of World War II, a few months before Pearl Harbor. Read more »

OPINION: Ferdinand E. Marcos -- Malacanang to Makiki, the book

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jun 22 03:04 PM

Historiography on the life and times of the deposed dictator will never be complete without the memoirs of the author, Col. Arturo C. Aruiza. Read more »

OPINION: Marcos' vow fulfilled

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jun 15 09:22 AM

Eerily, it was a vow fulfilled! Ferdinand E. Marcos never submitted himself to the American judicial system. Read more »

Review: ‘Quezon’s Game’ finds its way to the heart of the truth through make-believe

Manuel L. Quezon III
Updated as of Jun 03 08:48 PM

Don’t watch it to know about history, writes Manuel L. Quezon III—grandson of the film’s main protagonist—but be entertained, and appreciate how it seeks to tell truths through the imagined Read more »

OPINION: 'Big Mac' vs Marcos

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at May 31 06:20 PM

The bizarre reality is that fast food in the form of ‘burgers and fries’ have never ever figured in, or ever been utilized as an extralegal tactical artifice to evade and avoid a criminal indictment. Stranger than fiction, might you not say? Read more »

OPINION: Marcos’ medical brinkmanship that backfired

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at May 25 12:04 PM

With reasonably credible deduction, I concluded that the proximate cause of Ferdinand Marcos’ final hospitalization was indeed traceable to “two Big Macs, two large fries and milkshakes.”  Read more »