A New People’s Army under the coconut trees.
Under the coconut trees
Day: January 8, 2017
Darkening clouds on Duterte promises
President Duterte enters the second half of his first year in office unrelentingly pursuing his bloody war on illegal drugs, which during the electoral campaign he had promised to complete in six months. The fulfillment of another campaign promise has now been added to that: weeding out corruption in government. Comes now the disclosure by…
The Pollyanna Principle
The advent of every new year inevitably brings with it not only the cheery predictions of hacks who claim to have the power to foretell what will happen in the next 12 months by telling the world which celebrity will be sleeping with whom or how the economy will perform. It’s also one more opportunity…
Ang makata
Ni TONY BORINAGA ng ating binihag na bayan kung gabi, nakikita’y tanging kinang ng bituin at ganda ng asul na buwan sa umaga, pag-asa ang hatid ng pagdungaw ng araw. lagi sa kanilang utak umiinog ang romansahan, ang walang katapusang tamis at pait ng kalibugan: (aking kamay sa mga pakpak ng kanyang dibdib. bakit nagwakas…