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Ukraine: Trump’s war, no longer Biden’s
Thursday, 21 August 2025 23:37 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
TRUMP has always asserted that the Ukraine war was Biden’s having occurred during his watch. “If I were President in 2022, Putin would have not invaded Ukraine.” Trump boasted he would end this war on his first day as president.…
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The imperatives for constitutional reforms, political and economic
Thursday, 14 August 2025 01:10 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
MY three-part column late last month suggesting an agenda for the incoming Senate discussed cursorily five interrelated topics among the myriad that need reforms: political dynasties, the perverted party-list, the dysfunctional presidential system, political party reforms and a shift to…
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Marcos, tariffs negotiator: A patsy or a grandmaster?
Thursday, 14 August 2025 00:41 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
A DIPLOMATIC visit of a head of state is rarely a simple event. It is often a nexus of history, economics and international strategy. In the case of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s recent trip to Washington, D.C. for tariff negotiations,…
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Parliamentary government and political party reform
Thursday, 31 July 2025 01:39 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Last of a seriesTHE first and second parts of this column series portrayed an aberrant Senate, their expedient political party memberships, and a cursory depiction of an anomalous political architecture of governance forming part of my suggested agenda hinting on:…
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Perverted party-list and the dysfunctional presidential system
Thursday, 24 July 2025 20:54 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Second of a seriesBEYOND the immediate reforms to our dysfunctional political parties, a deeper examination of the party-list concept itself reveals a profound disconnect between its original intent and its currently perverted reality. During its conceptualization, the appointed Constitutional Commission…
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Senate political chameleons: An agenda for reform
Wednesday, 16 July 2025 22:57 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
First of three partsMY column last week featured the four sets of siblings in the Senate (Cayetanos, Villars, Tulfos and Estrada/Ejercitos) and how the tentacles of political families could affect governance. This week’s article expands the profile to the rest…
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Incoming Senate profile: Political dynasties’ team sports, corruption and perversion
Wednesday, 09 July 2025 10:59 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
ON July 28, 2025, the 20th Congress — the Senate and House of Representatives — convenes. This will be timed with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) which is to be delivered in a joint session…
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The evolving war: A case for regime change
Thursday, 03 July 2025 01:07 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
ON June 22, 2025, US President Trump announced: “The US military carried out a massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime. The strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have…
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