Credit to Author: NEW WORLDS| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:54:22 +0000
The best remedy for outbreaks and a possible calamity is a calm study, practical decisions and quick execution. Hysteria needs to be managed or the medical issues will take longer to control and resolve, with much greater economic and social damage than necessary. While everyone should take precautions, the current virus outbreak already shows several […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Mauro Gia Samonte| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:47:06 +0000
In our column two Sundays ago, we endeavored to ventilate the concern of Chairman Wilfredo Mariano of Barangay Tangos, Navotas City in line with this column’s tradition of accommodating the concerns of small people who are otherwise powerless to get their messages across to government authorities. Before a select group of media people, the barangay […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Rolly G. Reyes| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:44:08 +0000
The way it’s going, we will be wearing masks forever to be safe from pollution, volcanic ashes, toxic fumes from forest fires and strange new diseases. It looks like the “NextGen” will quickly evolve into the “MaskGen.” My recent trip to Cebu betrayed a populace that is alarmed, paranoid, restless and confused. I myself did […]
Read moreCredit 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 […]
Read moreCredit to Author: NEW WORLDS| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:47:04 +0000
There is no tradition more widely practiced in the world than the passing of a new year or a new cycle of the seasons. Through thousands of years of civilization, the questions passing through everyone’s mind at this time are: “Will this year be better, will it be worse? What should I do or not […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Rolly G. Reyes| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:42:42 +0000
This time, I opt to discuss a world where art, photography and politics can ride in the same vehicle we call “technological advancement.” To start the discourse, we can definitely agree that we now live in a cultural environment pulsating with extravagant images, imitations and visual augmentations bordering on fantasies, even myths. We are now […]
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Credit to Author: NEW WORLDS| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:09:55 +0000
While most people around the world fixed their attention on January 15 at the signing in the White House of phase one of the trade agreement between China and the United States, few people paid attention to the news on the possibly more significant long-term indicator of national innovation capacity based on the science and […]
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Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:02:52 +0000
A press statement forwarded to my mail by a friend instantly brings back memories of the Corona impeachment in 2012. Those were the days when members of the Philippine Congress were divided into the principled lawmakers on the one hand and the ersatz on the other. In the Senate, for instance, only three voted in […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Mauro Gia Samonte| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:03:35 +0000
The question was first prompted in me by an incident I gathered from a book by the late former vice president Salvador Laurel, A Child’s Footnote to History. The author cites the brief conversation President Jose P. Laurel had with the leader of the American troops sent by General Douglas MacArthur to arrest him in […]
Read moreCredit to Author: NEW WORLDS| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 16:59:10 +0000
More than any other country, our headlines are flooded with surveys as if they are of prime importance in decision-making in the country, when they are more a tally of the opinions… of a population that global surveys show to be largely emotional, uninformed and easily manipulable. Comparatively, any study of Asia’s publications in progressive […]
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