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by Aven Piramide - May 12, 2024 - 12:00am

My lady Carmen and I had, over a recent lunch, a great bonding time with our children and grandchildren, now college students, expressing their minds over random topics.

Water crisis is at hand

by Aven Piramide - May 9, 2024 - 12:00am

A t-shirt of The Freeman which i proudly wear carries the line “Age Does Matter”.

What tsunami (of cases) brings!

by Aven Piramide - May 5, 2024 - 12:00am

My high school teacher in World History, the late Atty. Pacifica Cuizon, taught us that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria triggered World War I.

Forward political expense

by Aven Piramide - May 2, 2024 - 12:00am

I have a friend who, with his legal background, is a serious observer of our socio-political idiosyncrasies.

Frank Morris in the making

by Aven Piramide - April 28, 2024 - 12:00am

Alcatraz, an island in California, is now closed as a prison cell and has instead become a tourist destination facility of sort.

Lull before the storm

by Aven Piramide - April 25, 2024 - 12:00am

In the last quarter of the year 2023, there was news that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, moved to continue with the investigation of the hostis humani generis cases filed against personalities...

The falsehood of China’s position

by Aven Piramide - April 18, 2024 - 12:00am

We would like to believe that in international relations, there is a right of equality among states.

Balamban town, capital of Cebu Province

by Aven Piramide - April 4, 2024 - 12:00am

I have just seen a Facebook post that featured the leveling of a mountain reportedly located in Barangay Cambuhawe, Balamban town, a first class municipality west of the island, in order to pave the way for the construction...

Who are evolving as fascists?

by Aven Piramide - March 31, 2024 - 12:00am

Sometime in December 1970, or about two years before Proclamation 1081 was signed by the late president Ferdinand Edralin Marcos placing the entire Philippines under martial law, there was a 10-day National Student...

Let us fight China differently

by Aven Piramide - March 28, 2024 - 12:00am

I do not know of any Filipino who was not angered by the criminal act done by maritime assets of Communist China against a Philippine supply vessel in Ayungin Shoal last Saturday.

Lapiang Malaya, Branch Davidian and Quiboloy

by Aven Piramide - March 21, 2024 - 12:00am

It is not always true that nothing comes out of nothing. Sometimes, something appreciably positive wriggles out of nothing. This happened the other day when I was scrolling my cellphone without purpose.

Our congressmen’s performance

by Aven Piramide - March 14, 2024 - 12:00am

The term Fourth Estate or fourth power, coined in the mid 1800s, refers, according to the Internet, “to the press and news media both in explicit capacity of advocacy and implicit ability to frame political...

Tungaw cannot hide under the Lahug flyover

by Aven Piramide - March 7, 2024 - 12:00am

Since my boyhood days, I did not know the English word for Tungaw.

Is the Talamban-Pit-Os road abandoned?

by Aven Piramide - February 25, 2024 - 12:00am

The book “Public Philosophy” may have been written by Walter Lippmann almost 70 years ago, but still it can be used to understand the philosophy of events taking place in the present.

Dilemma

by Aven Piramide - February 22, 2024 - 12:00am

I read somewhere that some unnamed individuals are lobbying for the appointment of former Senator Leila De Lima to head the Department of Justice to replace a reportedly ailing Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin "Boying"...

Insanity? Macchiavellian? Or both?

by Aven Piramide - February 18, 2024 - 12:00am

I have to appreciate the utility of modern technology.

On Mindanao secession

by Aven Piramide - February 15, 2024 - 12:00am

For some inexplicable reasons, I kind of believe in what the late American President John F Kennedy once remarked.

Watch out for paid bloggers

by Aven Piramide - February 8, 2024 - 12:00am

I was a young boy when I saw the film of the fight between Auburn Copeland and Gabriel “Flash” Elorde.

Why the Duterte war chant?

by Aven Piramide - February 1, 2024 - 12:00am

Among the many philosophical attributes written by profound thinkers on war, there is one that I have come to prefer to recall.

The Peoples Initiative, product of devious mind

by Aven Piramide - January 18, 2024 - 12:00am

This article is going to be a different tack, organization wise, from previous write ups.

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