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I know I should be attending more to my car repairs and house repainting (I was a victim, too, of the recent massive flooding of Metro Manila, thanks to Cyclone Ketsana) than mull over whether Obama deserved his N— Peace Prize, but there’s...
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Today’s elections in Afghanistan is proof that democracy struggles to exist and assert its presence in a country that is otherwise overrun by a motley of warlords and tribal warriors, and ‘where clan, tribe, hierarchy and tradition trump...
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She passed away 8 hours ago, after a 16-month battle with colon cancer which doctors found a week ago to have spread to her liver.
I don’t wish to remember Cory on her last days when she started to look gaunt and frail. That part only reminds me...
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In Jack Balkin’s Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, memes are said to be the foundation of ideological thought, and that they form the cultural ideas behind racism. In other words (and I take it that), if your community believes that religion...
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The Uighurs are an ethnic group composed mostly of Muslim people who want their territory, the Xinjiang province in western China, to become independent. In their claim for self-rule and self-determination, they have ‘staged bombings and other...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting. It means the swine flu virus is spreading in at least two regions of the world.
Introspecting (yes, I indulge in it once in a while), I find 10 good reasons why I can’t seem to haul myself on the panic bandwagon of this global warming rabblerousing racket.
1) I come from the so-called Third World where we eat panic for...
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An Australian researcher claims the swine flu virus might not be a natural mutation but a man-made product of genetic experiments accidentally leaked from a laboratory — a theory the World Health Organization is taking very seriously.
The United States used to own the commercial and diplomatic franchise in Southeast Asia’s economic and political fate and fortune. Such is no longer the case. China has been on a rampage to steal the thunder from the US over the past few years. It...
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From the beginning, sleep deprivation had been one of the most important elements in the CIA’s interrogation program, used to help break dozens of suspected terrorists, far more than the most violent approaches. And it is among the methods the...
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