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Pinoy election DNA: Forgiveness? Amnesia? Brand loyalty? Immediate gratification?
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(Blog Content)
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... Americans, who follow politics in the Philippines, have been saying that had the popular Noynoy Aquino not run for the presidency in the 2010 Presidential Election, Former Pres. Joseph Estrada would have ...
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Created on 16 May 2013
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A New Platform for Inter-religious and Inter-civilizational Partnership
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(Blog Content)
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Our interreligious dialogue and intercultural solidarity have to give birth to a new relationship that heals and empowers. Politics and economics are inadequate to shape that meaningful relationship. ...
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Created on 14 May 2013
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Bangsamoro Aspirations beyond Rhetoric and Soundbites
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(Blog Content)
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... and local plebiscite is also likely to change the atmosphere of Philippine politics in unforeseeable directions. In the likely event that the plebscite process does push through, the momentum for a Yes ...
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Created on 10 May 2013
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Exciting elections
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(Blog Content)
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... Pakistani national elections).
ISLAMABAD -- The first time I visited Pakistan was in 2008, when the Stimson Center organized a two-day discussion on Islam and politics in Asia. Experts ...
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Created on 10 May 2013
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Political dynasties weaken the State
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(Blog Content)
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... and through wasteful pork barrel politics.
Weak, captive state
According to Richard Javid Heydarian in his revealing article, “Why the Philippines failed,” one discovers that the ...
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Created on 08 May 2013
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The political clans of Maguindanao (Part 3)
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(Blog Content)
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... the former Rep. Michael Mastura, is now a senior member of the MILF Peace Panel.
Mayor Tocs is a certified public accountant by profession. He has a colorful career both in politics as ...
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Created on 07 May 2013
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The facts on political dynasties
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(Blog Content)
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... they serve as focal points for competition for power and influence, incubators of future government leaders, and generators and advocates of policies and social action programs. The politics of longstanding ...
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Created on 07 May 2013
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Big Data mined for voter sentiment
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(Blog Content)
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... me I was wrong. Good work can be done using unstructured data Mr. Manuel said, pointing out they have done it in Singapore.
I was not impressed… I told them Singapore’s politics is boringly ...
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Created on 03 May 2013
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The political clans of Maguindanao (Part 2)
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(Blog Content)
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... the now infamous Maguindanao massacre should never have happened since electoral victory was assured in the province. All the political cracks in clan politics were neatly resolved thereby ensuring the ...
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Created on 02 May 2013
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The changeless clans of Maguindanao (part 1)
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(Blog Content)
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Maguindanao politics, except with few additions post 1986 EDSA uprising, has remained in the hands of the elite ruler clans since 1946.
Kusog Mindanaw (Mindanao Force), a discussion platform ...
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Created on 22 April 2013
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'Political Antiques' in Maguindanao
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(voices)
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... that the Moro Fronts have supported the same names notwithstanding the claim that they would not enter into partisan politics...
Kim Bagundang via
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Created on 15 April 2013
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Free-for-all looms for Party-List seats
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(Blog Content)
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... mechanism into an atrocious veneer for traditional politics.’
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VESTED GROUPS: “With the new decision, it now appears that participation in the PL system ...
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Created on 10 April 2013
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So bananas
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(Blog Content)
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... that American businessmen got involved in local politics to ensure control over the production and importation of the fruit. They went bananas, controlling huge tracks of land for plantations in Costa ...
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Created on 05 April 2013
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Closing Remarks of GPH panel chair Miriam Coronel-Ferrer at the Ceremonial Opening of the Transition Commission
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(News Content)
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... is the most fitting way to end this ceremony.
It reminds us of why we are all here in the first place: to find peace, to build peace, to put an end to violence in politics. And to ...
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Created on 04 April 2013
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Democracy and sustainability
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(Blog Content)
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... associated with politics and government. The link between the two, however, is rarely—if ever— taken into consideration.
Interestingly, just last Wednesday a London-based non-governmental ...
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Created on 25 March 2013
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US-Philippines Alliance and the Rebalancing of Power in Asia
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(Blog Content)
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... foreign and defense policy, Philippine electoral politics, terrorism, and the peace process, among others.
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Created on 25 March 2013
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Pols in Central Mindanao told to shun 'dirty politics'
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(News Content)
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... on Muslim Filipinos, has urged politicians to heed "peaceful politics" as espoused by Islam.
“Cheating during electoral exercises, intimidating voters, or ...
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Created on 21 March 2013
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The State of Our Democracy and its Prospects
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(Blog Content)
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... well informed, and critical of poor governance. They participate in politics as members of political parties and business or civil society organizations.
In the Philippines our middle ...
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Created on 19 March 2013
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The Iraq War: 10 Years Later
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(Blog Content)
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... the reasons for such impunity conferred upon the American and British leaders is one more crude display of geopolitics—their countries were not defeated and occupied, their governments never surrendered ...
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Created on 18 March 2013
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Yet another tragic comedy!
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(Blog Content)
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... only way to get the majority in the state assembly post of Chief Minister Tun Mustapha. The State Assembly was under the constant assault from the UMNO to get hold of local politics. This occurred when ...
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Created on 17 March 2013