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How galunggong and electoral fraud figure

February 22, 2020 admin electoral fraud, galunggong, my say, op-ed columns

Credit to Author: Mauro Gia Samonte| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 16:48:00 +0000

In my column on Saturday last week, I happened to mention the issue of the high price of galunggong because the topic for that piece, extortion at the port of San Pascual, Masbate, was similarly placed; that is, a seaport. Metro Manila’s poor and those in the suburbs get their poor man’s viand through the […]

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V is for Valentine as much as for VFA

February 15, 2020 admin my say, op-ed columns, Visiting Forces Agreement

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 17:37:13 +0000

This combination of figures of speech serves merely to illustrate that the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the Philippines and the United States comes during the season of hearts. But while there is nothing but amorous element in the first symbolism, there just is no love lost between the Philippines and the […]

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Between an egg and a stone: An ocean of difference

January 25, 2020 admin my say, op-ed columns

Credit to Author: Mauro Gia Samonte| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:52:16 +0000

I remember the days of activism in the ‘70s when, in illustrating the principle of dialectical materialism, activist educators (as I was once) would make a comparison between an egg and a stone. “You heat up an egg, it will hatch into a chick. Why? Because the egg has the quality to turn into a […]