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Who are the bigger terrorists?
Wednesday, 01 November 2023 08:35 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Third of a seriesTHE last two parts of this column depicted the many faces of terrorism, highlighting both Israel and Hamas. Both sides are currently hogging the headlines claiming the high ground, preaching to their own choirs, and appealing to…
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The many faces of terrorism
Thursday, 26 October 2023 19:29 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana
Second of a seriesTHE world has condemned what is transpiring between Israel and Hamas as terrorism, pure and simple. A concerted missile barrage from Gaza was launched toward Israel with no specific targets except to do maximum harm to the…
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Genesis of terrorism
Thursday, 19 October 2023 22:06 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana
THE last few days, Ukraine was relegated to the back burner, eclipsed by another war. By now, the world is familiar with the circumstances surrounding this war.After breaking through Israel's security barrier last October 7, Hamas militants gunned down entire…
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Autocratic pragmatism — one final act
Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:54 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana
DEMOCRACY failed us! The crux of this six-part series. For a century, we wasted what initially was a good thing, foisted upon us "little brown brothers" as a patronizing experiment. America's first-ever foray into the Far East was essential to…
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How do we fix our democracy
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 19:47 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THIS is the penultimate part of a series of columns on democracy. Focus was placed on four countries in Asia — China, Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea — comparative to the Philippines, extracting their best practices in governance, whether such…
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Asian models of governance
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 23:27 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
IN past columns, we made a case for pursuing alternatives to our kind of democracy that is not working as intended by our American colonialists. We compared democratic governments and authoritarian regimes — isolating criteria that could work for us…
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Pursuing alternatives to democracy
Wednesday, 20 September 2023 20:11 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THE previous two parts of this series discussed Philippine perspectives on democracy as handed down to us by America. We were gifted a version of governance that was deemed suited for us. America gave us a liberal unitary-presidential system of…
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Philippine perspectives on China's experience
Thursday, 14 September 2023 04:44 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana
LAST week's column ended with a suggestion that democracy and its attendant principles may not be the right fit for us, considering the decades of experimentation in the Philippines, comparative to some successful Asian countries run under the opposite type…
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