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Trump’s ‘America First’ alone, outmaneuvered, outplayed
Wednesday, 24 December 2025 07:27 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Second of a seriesSEVERAL weeks ago, I began a series analyzing the tectonic shifts in global trade triggered by President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff initiatives. The sweeping duties on 120 nations launched in April 2025, were framed as a “patriotic…
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Filipinas, America’s ally, taken for granted
Wednesday, 17 December 2025 06:38 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THE United States just released its National Security Strategy (NSS) — one of those quadrennial documents each administration issues to signal priorities, prejudices, and presumptions. Trump produced one in 2017, Biden in 2022; both passed through Washington largely unnoticed, their…
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The power players: Forces that will decide our future
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 07:58 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
IN my Nov. 26 column, I described the Trillion Peso March as a valiant attempt at national unity by “getting everyone equally furious at the same crooks at the same time.” Indeed, it succeeded, if success is measured by the…
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Alternative scenarios: Lessons from Harvard
Thursday, 04 December 2025 01:04 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
IN the late 1980s, at the Harvard Kennedy School, quite a few of our colleagues were veterans of political turbulence from South America, Africa and the Middle East, where governments fall with the regularity of our typhoons — they offered…
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The trillion-peso reckoning: Marching in circles, waiting for deliverance
Wednesday, 26 November 2025 18:28 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
ON Nov. 30, another wave of indignation is set to sweep across the archipelago. This is no ordinary protest, but a multisectoral convergence grandly baptized as the “Trillion Peso March,” named after the staggering fund transfer of people’s money to…
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Trump’s tariffs and their geopolitical ramifications
Wednesday, 19 November 2025 21:25 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
First of a seriesTHIS week, I pause from my reflections on our national affliction — a republic ensnared in an unprecedented quagmire of corruption, reminiscent of the martial law regime, if not more dire, while the populace appears poised to…
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Bong Go’s inarticulate defense: A teleserye testimony
Thursday, 13 November 2025 08:03 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Third of a seriesMY column last week drew varied reactions, but what was truly “nakakataba ng puso” was the overwhelming agreement from fellow Davaoeños with the article as satire. I told them, half in jest, that my prose sharpens when…
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From aide to Svengali: Bong Go’s metamorphosis
Wednesday, 05 November 2025 10:26 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Second of a seriesSPOILER alert! I am a proud Davaoeño. So is Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go who I was acquainted with as Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s aide. I am neither a contractor nor a recipient of any favors from either. Many…
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