LML Polettiques (461)

A tragic yearend for all — same trajectory for the coming year

Wednesday, 27 December 2023 22:09 Written by
THE year ends as expected on a sordid note and continuing tragedies. The Ukraine war, now in a stalemate, may go the way of Putin. But the killing continues. In Palestine, Israel has introduced a new phase in this conflict…

Our own pivot to China

Thursday, 21 December 2023 03:41 Written by
FROM the start of his regime, I have not written about how BBM runs government. Instead, I wrote several columns on foreign affairs and genocides in Ukraine and Palestine, a much more compelling take. Consequently, I started a series on…

Man-made God

Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:44 Written by
Fourth of a seriesOUR second hypothesis demonstrated that the stories depicted in the Abrahamic religions are not originals, plagiarized from even more ancient epics, man-made, not deity-inspired, implying that religion itself is man-made. Which brings the consequential conclusion that man…

Torah, Bible, Quran — a case of plagiarism?

Wednesday, 06 December 2023 07:26 Written by
Third of a seriesTHE first two parts of this series were about our first hypothesis: Religion is a driving force for wars and conflicts. We looked no farther than Palestine as a microcosm where faith-based violence is inflicted by the…

Toward the end times

Wednesday, 29 November 2023 07:16 Written by
Second of a seriesTHIS takes off from my past two columns on a hypothesis on religion being a driving force for wars and even more conflicts. "Toward a tragic prognosis" (The Manila Times, Nov. 15, 2023) and last week's "Religion —…

Religion — impetus for war and conflict

Wednesday, 22 November 2023 08:10 Written by
THE fourth part of my series on the Palestinian-Israel conflict ("Toward a tragic prognosis," The Manila Times, Nov. 8, 2023) ended up with a statement: "The two-state solution was a formula for disaster for the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and…

Right is might is right — a mirror image

Wednesday, 15 November 2023 20:44 Written by
AT the end of the Second World War, along with the advent of a bipolar world, the behavior of the hegemons America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) defined the global power dynamics. Both countries were perceived to…

Toward a tragic prognosis

Wednesday, 08 November 2023 22:51 Written by
Fourth of a seriesTHE world has never been in a more precarious period than these days. The Middle East is about to blow up, with Israel and Hamas providing the fuse. And it is lit! Israel has invaded Gaza to…
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