LML Polettiques (448)

Hysteria at the White House: Trump-Zelenskyy reality TV

Wednesday, 05 March 2025 12:26 Written by
First of 3 partsSEVERAL interpretations are going around the internet of that Feb. 28, 2025, White House press conference involving Trump and Zelenskyy. From where one sits, the protagonists are seen in a different light. This first column of three…

Let's finish this! EDSA version 2.0

Wednesday, 26 February 2025 21:04 Written by
FEBRUARY 25, 2025, is the 39th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution (EDSA). All its major characters are long gone save one. Enrile, a political Cartaphilus, the wandering Jew, has outlived them all — Ferdinand Marcos, Cory, Cardinal Sin,…

Leaders and governments: Choosing the lesser evil

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 19:23 Written by
Last of a seriesTHIS column bookends the seven-part series on the sorry state of Philippine politics with the grim prognosis that our inherently defective system may not produce the kind of moral leadership that will break the cycle of depravity…

In search of a political leadership, moral or otherwise

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 21:56 Written by
Sixth of a seriesIN last week's column, a conclusion was arrived at as a response to a question on whether the Philippines can produce a moral leader with Lincolnesque qualities embodying "integrity, moral courage and principled leadership..." President FVR, after…

Deus ex machina: Obsessing over a moral leader

Wednesday, 05 February 2025 23:27 Written by
Fifth of a seriesTHIS series started with "Bankruptcy in Philippine politics," followed by "Executive and legislative disequilibrium," exposing the distortion of the balance of power, a cherished democratic tenet handed down to us by our American colonialists. This complicit manipulation…

Federal-parliamentary and EDSA version 2.0

Wednesday, 29 January 2025 14:44 Written by
Fourth of a seriesTOMES have been written about the superiority of a federal-parliamentary system to the unitary-presidential form that we have now. We advocate federal-parliamentary as an alternative. All Filipino presidents understood the imperatives for systemic changes from the very…

Executive and legislative disequilibrium — a path to revolution

Thursday, 16 January 2025 00:23 Written by
Second of a seriesWITH the passage of the 2025 budget, dubbed as the most corrupt budget ever, it is now apparent that this country is led by criminals in the highest echelons of government — the executive and legislative branches.…

Bankruptcy of Philippine politics

Thursday, 09 January 2025 01:39 Written by
First of a seriesIT is traditional to start a new year on a high note, with a new hope for 2025, discarding the year past, its bad memories and upsetting events. I will not adhere to these rituals. I will…
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