Looking Back by Ambeth Ocampo from Philippine Daily Inquirer MANUEL LUIS Quezon is the face on the P20 bill. He is best remembered as the President of the Philippine Commonwealth and is also referred to as the “Father of the National Language.” The former capital of the Philippines, Quezon City, bears his name. He passed [...]
Commentary by John J. Carroll, S.J. from Philippine Daily Inquirer HISTORIAN ALFRED W. McCoy made headlines in the Philippines when, shortly before the snap election of 1986, he showed that the medals for valor as a guerrilla leader claimed by President Ferdinand Marcos were fake. Since then he has by his archival research turned [...]
By Cesar D. Candari, M.D. FCAP EMERITUS Henderson, Nevada The People Power Revolution in 1986. This was a historical event that could never be forgotten by all Filipinos wherever they were in those days The following is a summary of a very interesting history of the Philippines for your information. These are extracts taken [...]
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR by William M. Esposo from The Philippine Star It has become a historical reality that strong nations tend to either dominate or obliterate weaker nations. Even the powerful nations today have evolved from a weak nation in the past that was also either subjugated or dominated. One needs only to [...]
by Antonio C. Abaya from Standard Today This article first appeared in the April 12, 2007 issue of the Manila Standard Today. I am running it again in view of the triple whammy that hit this battered country in the past 35 days or so: Ondoy, Pepeng and Santi. More than a month after Ondoy, many [...]
by Erick San Juan As in the past, no stock market will make money in this wipe-out, as told by the “Wall Street Underground” in 2001. What we’re seeing now is not a cyclical economic slowdown that a stimulus from the Federal Reserve will resolve. It could lead to the greatest economic wipe out which [...]
by Erick San Juan While cleaning my library this weekend due to typhoon Ondoy’s fury that rainwater entered some of my book shelves, I happened to get the files of the Wall Street Underground, a group of stock market analysts in the U.S. who exposed the sting operations of power brokers and carpetbaggers, due to [...]
Telltale Signs by Rodel Rodis Historical records do not cite the names of any of the “Luzon Indios” aboard the Nuestra Senora de Buena Esperanza when it landed in Morro Bay, California on October 18, 1587. All we know of the people who would later be called “Filipinos” was that the Esperanza’s captain, Pedro [...]
Telltale Signs by Rodel Rodis If you compared all the Philippine national heroes from Lapu-Lapu to Cory Aquino, it is unlikely that you will find two heroes more uncannily similar, in how they lived and how they died, than Dr. Jose Rizal and Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr. Both came from similar backgrounds, their families were [...]
Philippines: A Country Study by Ronald E. Dolan Source: U.S. Library of Congress Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino was, like his life-long rival Ferdinand Marcos, a consummate politician, Philippine-style. Born in 1932, he interrupted his college studies to pursue a journalistic career, first in wartime Korea and then in Vietnam, Malaya, and other parts of Southeast Asia. [...]
