Allen Severino
Allen Severino
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Beneath the symbols and secrecy, Freemasonry helped connect the intellectual and political currents that fueled modern revolutions from Europe to Manila.

Those who see this pattern play out over and over again can already see the writing on the wall.

China and the U.S. are currently two men standing in a gasoline-soaked room, pointing flamethrowers at each other, political commentator Allen Severino writes.

In the coming years, a Shahed-like blanket could protect the Philippines while strengthening its leverage in the West Philippine Sea dispute.

Most histories credit the West—but Russia was actually ahead in granting women political, educational, and workplace equality. 

To make Filipinos more Filipino, we must revive the courage, foresight, and independence of our ancestors at Malolos, 1899. 

A university lecturer makes sense of the country’s literacy crisis.  

A tale of Petrodollars, sanctions-busting, and financial plumbing. 

Dauntless reveals the forgotten heroism of Filipino soldiers who fought—and bled—for freedom in World War II. 

By not including the Sakdalistas, Tarog removed a potentially captivating subplot that highlights the internal contradictions within the independence camp—and Quezon’s closest match in shrewdness and intellect.
Martial Law in the Philippines was just one chapter in a global story of coups, propaganda, and repression.
It is part of the slow-motion collapse of a nation that once shone as an icon, now struggling under the weight of its own decline.
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