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Marvin Bionat is the creator of philippineupdate.com, a news and views site that has served as a virtual platform that promotes various advocacies, including the political empowerment of overseas Filipinos and accountability in government. He wrote the National Bookstore bestseller How to Win (or Lose) in Philippine Elections (Anvil Publishing, 1998) and is now based in the U.S. working as an editor.

Homecoming, Part 2

What are my first impressions of the Philippines after more than 13 years of absence? First, a ride along the highway reveals that, despite
 

Homecoming, Part 1

It wasn't as dramatic as the mushroom cloud that violently sprouted from the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, but the haze that hung over Detroit-my first ...
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Ground zero of the health-care debate

As soon as the news broke that President Obama would be in a town-hall meeting at Portsmouth High School, which is just a few blocks ...
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Can a Third Force win in the 2010 Philippine elections?

That the Kapatiran party actually had to issue a press statement seeking interested candidates to join its national and local line ups for the 2010 ...
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Cory Aquino’s legacy and a lesson in dignity

Cory Aquino’s passing away was very different from Ninoy’s. Usually, when people of great significance die we’d remember what we were doing when the ...
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To the left, to the left

After wreaking havoc as it swung a little too far to the right, the political pendulum is now swinging back to the left. ...
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How to know the recession is over

What specific metrics should we look at to tell the economy is really on the mend? ...
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Twittering on the Hayden/Katrina scandal and Charter change

It’s actually much harder to capture thoughts when you have to do it in less the 140 characters, so tweets require way more time than ...
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Crumpage: My unifying theory of behavior

In my longstanding attempt to create a grand theory of human behavior, I have invented a new word: crumpage. Yes, move over Freud and Jung, ...
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Smart ways to govern

In their book Nudge, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein argue that through "choice architecture" people should be subtly steered into making the right and desirable ...
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Transcript of Interview: Senator Biazon on Sen Panfilo Lacson

I think that as part of institutions and institutional processes it would be best for Senator Lacson to come in and submit himself to the

Income tax and VAT: trade-off

The income tax system in the Philippines is one classic example of the absence of the rule of law. The rule of law says that

Villar and Lacson’s disappearing acts

Where are the two most important and controversial personalities of the Senate?

Curtains: a film in three parts

The University of the Philippines Vargas Museum opens its 2010 calendar with the exhibit titled, Curtains: a film in three parts by Los Angeles based

Villar: Growth Has Not Trickled Down to the Poor

Senator Manny Villar expressed disappointment that the Philippines is not only lagging behind its Asian neighbors in terms of economic growth and development, but also

Biazon to AFP: Disarm private armies instead of performing guard duties to politicians

Senator Rodolfo G Biazon on Wednesday said the Armed Forces of the Philippines should be chasing, disarming and arresting the private armies of politicians instead

2009

This column is long overdue and is written in this lull of Christmas week. The past several weeks have been frenzied -- a flurry

Senate opens probe on transformation of legal armed groups into private armies

Senator Rodolfo Biazon today said the Senate hearing tomorrow, December 15, 2009 10 am at the Laurel-Pecson Rooms of the Committees on Public Order

Homecoming, Part 2

What are my first impressions of the Philippines after more than 13 years of absence? First, a ride along the highway reveals that, despite

Senator Biazon: Martial law in Maguindanao: Sinister plot to absolve Ampatuans?

Senator Rodolfo G Biazon today cautioned that declaring Martial Law in Maguindano could be that first sinister step in absolving the close political allies of
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