Rumors of impending coups and major crimes usually go together in our country. They surface when the euphoria that greeted the entry of a new government begins to dissipate. This period is full of danger. Where they have not been totally stripped of power, remnants of the old regime will threaten trouble from their followers … Read more
It is becoming clear that the purpose of the September 11 terrorist attacks was not so much to kill thousands of Americans as to shatter the very foundations of American society by permanently subjecting it to the threat of relentless terrorism. Far more injurious in the long term than the acts of terrorism that people … Read more
The U.S. government has been very careful to tell the world that the air strikes on Afghanistan are directed not on the Afghan nation itself but on a band of international terrorists led by Osama bin Laden and the tyrannical regime of the Taliban that shelters them. Neither is this a war against Islam, America … Read more
Listening to Senator Panfilo Lacson’s expose of the alleged misuse of sweepstakes funds to subsidize the campaign of administration candidates in the last elections gives one the sick feeling that we’re back in the familiar track of Philippine political life. The awesome events of this world are occurring elsewhere, while we seem fixated with the … Read more