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Philippine Progress: Shift in Sports, Shift in System

At the time of this writing, millions of people around the world are obsessing about the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and the noise of the annoying Vuvuzela horn. From every continent, people speaking almost every language, coming from practi...

Cultural Dimensions: An Insight into Philippine Dysfunction

Culture, in the practical sense in which most people understand it, is the unique comb...

Voids in logic and substance simply plugged by the 'magic' of 'People Power'

Use of symbols as well as encapsulation of ideas into short narratives – parables, fable...

Community spirit: Filipinos have failed to internalise it

Education is a key ingredient to world-class thinking. But there is also something to be s...

A powerful tool grasped by unskilled hands

One palpable thing the end of this year’s election fever leaves us is a void in the nati...

Solutions

Dismantling the tyranny of the Philippine Media

The old notion that digital content does not reach the masses is no longer that clear-cut. This is an important thing to note in our campaign to find progressive alternat...

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Letters

December 2006

29 Dec 2006 I have seen enough sterotyping and racism, even racial pessimism against Filipinos in cyberspace, especially in Friendster... which might puts the risk of p...

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Philippine Presidential Elections

Just like mass marketing, propaganda, and the ramblings of evangelists, campaigns are nothing more than quaint mind tricks. However, even Obi ...

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Issues

The 2010 Presidential Elections: Deferring to God's will

What’s the scorecard so far? Well so far, not much if we will use maturity as one of the criteria for evaluating how well we are conducting ourselves as a “democratic...

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Blogs

DATE SOURCE TITLE 26 Jul 2006 Writing on Air A dialogue with Jim Paredes 15 Apr 2006 PinoyExchange Unproductive p...

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