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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.

The Ground Zero Mosque Controversy: Nativist Aversion to the Unfamiliar

The intuitive reaction to the proposed mosque near Ground Zero is understandably negative. Why build a Muslim place of worship next to a site
 

Using Smart Power

The approval of the $434 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant for development projects in the Philippines is a clear indication of America’s trust or ...
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What Works: It's Time for Pragmatic Policy Making

In my last column I cited how hunger incidence in the Philippines increased from 10.5 percent in March 2000 to 21.2 percent in March 2010. ...
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Leaving a real legacy: Beyond the spin and the smokescreen

Never mind making everyone rich. Focus on reducing poverty and growing the middle class. That in a nutshell should be the critical benchmark ...
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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 ...
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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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Finally, Some Good News

Note: This online column will appear regularly. For its title, Dean Tony acknowledges Malcolm Gladwell who, in his book The Tipping Point, defined "connectors"

A Crisis, An Opportunity

Two days before the torture video was made public, I was conferring with a colleague and an official of the Aquino administration essentially offering assistance

Media and the Manila Hostage Crisis

Once again, the media is in the media. After audiences worldwide were treated to ringside seat views of the drama as it unfolded last Monday,

Killers, the Police and the State

The main function of the State is to protect the citizens’ right to life, right to private property, and right to liberty. When people have

The Ground Zero Mosque Controversy: Nativist Aversion to the Unfamiliar

The intuitive reaction to the proposed mosque near Ground Zero is understandably negative. Why build a Muslim place of worship next to a site

COMING HOME FOR P-NOY: Tales from the 2010 Inauguration

My wife and I came to Manila last June 27, 2010, to attend the inauguration of President-Elect Benigno Aquino III as the 15th President of

Brain Gain

In the 1970's, the phenomenon that is international migrant work started to become most palpable to us who are in their late 30's and 40-somethings

Rep. JV Ejercito : Be Heedful of Alvarez’s claims

San Juan City Representative JV Ejercito today urged the Filipino people to be heedful of Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez’s claims of fully ‘revamping’ the bureaucracy,

REVOLVING DOORS

Reputation and credibility are very important for media practitioners. They live and build a career on these two elements. What happens then to

Using Smart Power

The approval of the $434 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant for development projects in the Philippines is a clear indication of America’s trust or
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