http://www.thelobbyist.biz/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2010-09-07T06:35:29-04:00 http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/free_corner/moral_damage.html 2008-03-30T21:57:00-04:00 2008-03-30T21:57:00-04:00 Neric Acosta Moral damage, Vaclav Havel says, happens at the moment when what we say, or insist on saying, is different from what we think or believe http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/free_corner/diaspora.html 2008-03-25T02:08:00-04:00 2008-03-25T02:08:00-04:00 Neric Acosta As our scandal-weary country roils with new and ever more shocking revelations or allusions to official impunity and ‘immoderate greed’ – including the current issue http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/free_corner/electoral_americana.html 2008-03-17T22:10:00-04:00 2008-03-17T22:10:00-04:00 Neric Acosta One would have initially thought that the ebullient interest in the Philippines over the American elections this year just had to do with the Filipino http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/columns/free_corner/pagbabago.html 2008-03-10T07:24:00-04:00 2008-03-10T07:24:00-04:00 Neric Acosta In lieu of a column this week, I am sharing a brief reflection piece I wrote recently. This is largely a distillation of several