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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 »

“We did not necessarily only become civilized upon the arrival of the West”

Nana Nadal
Updated as of May 19 10:12 PM

The Ayala Museum recently hosted a talk to discuss the ideas and information contained in Mark Lewis Lim Higgins's "Gold in Our Veins," a stunning collaborative work that locates his new paintings against a Chinese bodega setting conjured by friend and scenographer Gino Gonzales  Read more »

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: 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 »

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 »

A musical journey into the waves of Pinoy pre-colonial hipness

John Paul 'JP' Tanchanco -- Tha Good Life
Posted at Apr 19 06:23 AM

Discover elevations in modern indie folk music thru Rice Lucido’s “Hele ng Maharlika”. 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: 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 »

Remembering the Bataan Death March

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 04 07:05 PM

Filipino soldiers, volunteers, and some former US Navy SEALs march along the route of the 'Bataan Death March' now part of MacArthur Highway going to Capas National Shrine in Tarlac on Sunday. Read more »

How the “Noli Me Tangere” was our first content to go viral

ANCX
Posted at Dec 30 12:08 PM

Even before the internet spawned its various (social media) revolutions, the Noli Me Tangere was the first text to spread like wild fire, despite the fact one can get arrested when caught with a copy Read more »

On Rizal Day, VP Leni calls for PH 'free from hate, division, tyranny'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 30 09:57 AM

"...may we find in ourselves the courage and serenity to work for his vision of a Philippines free from hate, division, and tyranny, and where the dignity of every Filipino is upheld," Vice President Leni Robredo said in a statement on Jose Rizal's 122nd death anniversary.  Read more »