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Darwin, Covid-19 and the Philippine setting

Friday, 11 December 2020 07:57 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

WITH the introduction of a vaccine at this time when Covid-19 is running out of control, speculation is rife as to who should be benefited first – with the rest of the global population queuing up.Based on wealth, it is…

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Revisiting Covid and the Malthusian trap

Wednesday, 02 December 2020 08:52 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

FIVE years ago, in August of 2014, I first wrote about an epidemic, “Ebola virus: Is this the end of the world?” It was prescient as today’s coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has the same infectious footprint as the Ebola, the…

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Post-mortem on US elections and Covid-19

Wednesday, 25 November 2020 09:19 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

I WROTE a four-part series of articles on the United States elections, beginning at a time when the US polls were predicting a Biden win. The trend held but the actual voter turnout was unexpected and unprecedented with 153 million…

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Trump lost — but won!

Wednesday, 18 November 2020 09:46 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Last of 4 parts US President-elect Biden is largely unknown. It’s different with Trump. The man is an open book from the time he dominated the GOP slate during the 2015-2016 primary debates and subsequent campaign sorties, where he bullied…

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You’re fired! What now, America?

Wednesday, 11 November 2020 10:18 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Third of 4 parts IT’s all over but for his whining! My last two columns on the US elections hewed close to the polls predicting Joe Biden’s win. They came out fairly accurately, negating wholesale fraud. Even if there was,…

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America’s precarious fling with Trump

Wednesday, 04 November 2020 09:12 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Second of 4 parts THIS article was submitted for publication four days before the US elections. Vote counting is ongoing, with partisans on both sides spinning whatever half-data is being captured by their respective media outlets: Fox News for Trump…

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The end of Trump

Wednesday, 28 October 2020 09:27 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

NEXT week Joe Biden will be America’s president-elect. He is not the best choice but anyone from the Democrats’ stable of “presidentiables” would be better than Trump. All the polls reflect the dominance of Biden in the popular vote. But…

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Ramifications of WPS and Sabah

Wednesday, 21 October 2020 10:01 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Last of 2 parts IN my past two columns, we visited the only two issues of foreign policy significance impacting Philippine sovereignty. Both were concerns even before we were formally constituted a country. And both involved claims of territories; one…

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