This photo shows the real situation of Islam and Muslims in the Philippines. Islam is besieged here by a brutal state, who treats Muslims as second or even third class citizens.  It is a reality created by centuries of enslavement by foreign hands, an existence threatened by co-optation and offers of co-existence. How will Muslims in this [...]

On May 10, we will be commemorating the death of the great Plebian Andres Bonifacio. This is not marked as a holiday in any of our calendars. Yet, it bears remembering here, since that treacherous death signalled the new chapter in the Katipunan revolution. As what fellow Historian Ambet Ocampo wrote in his book on [...]

A succession of oil price rollbacks sends some smiles among us. Yet, whenever we go to the supermarket, prices of basic goods are still terribly high. Who, in the world, is the one being fooled into complacency by the Arroyo regime? Surely, it is the middle class. Let the poor suffer, they might have said in [...]