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The Trump-Xi Jinping pissing contest
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 22:00 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THE Deegong is languishing at The Hague with zero prospects of ever coming home — at least not before the start of the ICC trial in September. The midterm election is upon us, making a mockery of the choice of…
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Another EDSA?
Wednesday, 09 April 2025 19:02 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
EDSA 1986 was a perfect political storm, a rare convergence of adverse dynamics that altered the Philippine system of governance. But thirty-nine years after that phenomenon, we find ourselves wondering if another political storm is brewing. The Deegong's March 28…
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Déjà vu 1983–2025?
Thursday, 03 April 2025 03:41 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THOSE who love him assert it was a spontaneous expression of solidarity. Those who despise him dismiss it as maudlin, corny and staged-managed. March 28 was the Deegong's 80th birthday, a venerable age worth celebrating, but for a besieged former…
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The Deegong is toast; so is Bongbong
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 10:01 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THIS sordid affair, the French in the Hague labels "l'affair Duterte" has made amateur lawyers of many of us. From where one sits, it was either a lawful arrest or kidnapping of a former president, "giftwrapped and delivered" to the…
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The endgame: Russo-Ukraine war
Thursday, 20 March 2025 17:56 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Third of a seriesPART 1 of this Russo-Ukraine war series started with the humiliation of Zelenskyy by Trump and Vance at a White House press conference on Feb. 28, 2025. Victor Hanson, a political scientist, advanced the idea of a…
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Trump-Zelenskyy fallout: The big picture
Wednesday, 12 March 2025 11:04 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Second of a seriesTHE first part of this series was a description of a possible solution to the war through the lens of a political technocrat, Victor Davis Hansen — decidedly an admirer of Trump. Predictably, Trump, in a childish…
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Hysteria at the White House: Trump-Zelenskyy reality TV
Wednesday, 05 March 2025 12:26 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
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…
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Let's finish this! EDSA version 2.0
Wednesday, 26 February 2025 21:04 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
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,…
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