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Share on FacebookIf you, like many Filipinos, have lost hope in the Philippines and have mentally labeled it as a “Lost Cause”.  Don’t lose hope…  Not just yet.  There’s one other “hopeless” poor and Catholic country that managed to get its cultural, economic, and political act together.  We can look to IRELAND for a historical [...]

Share on FacebookMaguindanao Massacre reveals the lie behind the Philippine “nation-state”
The Maguindanao Massacre forces Filipinos to question the very basic premise of the Philippines as a “nation-state.”  To apply that term to the Philippines, as it currently exists and operates, is to a disservice to the term as it is understood by and applied to [...]