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| Resurrecting Marcos |
by Alan C. Robles
Hot Manila |
Everything Marcos is blooming. There's a disco musical devoted to Imelda. She and two of her children are running for office. Their Martial Law cronies are all enjoying wonderful rich lives. Well, we certainly taught THOSE oppressors, didn't we?
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| Villar's shopping spree |
 In 1964-1965 Marcos launched an all out blitzkrieg of vote buying, massive advertising propaganda, media enticement, smear,fraud and violence. It's a record recalled by the near wanton spending of Manny Villar. |
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| MARCOS AND BEYOND |
| Ferdinand Marcos: Great guy! |
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| Marcos |
Marcos according to loyalists |
What do you call a despot who murdered, tortured, kidnapped, brutalized, plundered without limit for years and years? How about... "missed"?
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| 5 Marcos myths busted |
| "He built a lot of schools and roads, there was peace and order blah blah blah" How true are these claims made by Marcos loyalists? Read on |
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| OUT OF FOCUS |
| Test your knowledge of EDSA 1986 |
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This year marks the 24th anniversary of that time when a buncha civilians, led by someone and somebody got together and blocked the traffic in some kinda avenue. Oh, you think you know more than that? Then test yourself in this 15-question quiz |
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| REVIEWS |
| The Global Filipino and the goat |
 The man who, more than anyone else, has come to symbolize traditional politics in the Philippines has written a tell-nothing, play-if-safe, sef-serving lackluster memoir, the narrative highlight of which involves a goat. |
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| Californication |
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Straight and/or superficial men have something to new rave about. And its not the latest issue of FHM or Maxim.
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| FOCUS |
| The month Manila died |
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It was supposed to be a Liberation. Instead it became an Obliteration. |
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| ENTERTAINMENT, SEX & POLITICS |
| Tribalism and democracy |
| There is, of course, nothing wrong with voting for members of one’s clan.Our problem is that, it seems, this type of “tribal” loyalty extends way beyond support of a “favorite son”. In many cases people seem to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the crimes and transgressions of these politicians provided they come from their tribe or clan. |
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