LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta When the presidential elections in the USA were over, I felt it was time to unglue myself from You Tube and go back to listening to local news on AM radio. But when Capitol Hill was attacked on 6 January, breached and occupied by what looked like a...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Students don’t live in a vacuum, wherever they may be enrolled. They are citizens too. They witness or experience what other citizens witness and experience daily – inadequate mass transport, high prices of goods, official incompetence, and other outcomes of injustice,...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta “Maybe, I will have to leave the country,” former US President Donald Trump said, jokingly, in one of his super-spreader rallies. He firmly believed that there was only a one in a quadrillion possibility that he could lose the 3 November elections. Well, he did...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Critical thinking is perhaps the single-biggest thing that sets students of the University of the Philippines and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines apart from others. Critical thinking requires academic freedom and other fundamental freedoms both for the teachers and...
LANDSCAPE The United States of America is no longer a ship at full sail, it seems. Although I am not a US citizen, I am afraid for President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as their lives are and will always be in constant danger. They are the moving targets of...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz An American president once famously described America as a shining city on a hill. But in 2021, that description seems to have passed with time and circumstance. More facts are coming out of all the videos and documentation coming out of the US Capitol siege. The...
As countries roll out the vaccine for COVID-19, some of the country's biggest stars are waiting to receive the dosage. The vaccine, of course, is a major step forward in ending the pandemic. Here's what the stars of "Magkaagaw" on GMA-7 have to say about the COVID-19...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Yes, that’s us, the Republic of the Philippines, the “showcase of democracy.” It used to be the United States of America that was the light on the hill, the beacon of democracy. But, after that shockingly violent epiphany at their Capitol Hill, I dare say the...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and other American leaders have called it an insurrection and domestic terrorism. In a phrase familiar to survivors of US military interventions worldwide, it was an attempted coup d’etat. We never imagined seeing anything like it in...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta The first time I saw him at Café Havana, he did not look as if he had five daughters, 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren – perhaps the latter were not born yet. nevertheless, I would not have believed that he was already a grandfather. He cuts a lean and...
Sunshine Cruz and Mac Sunshine Cruz has welcomed the year 2021 with bashing after her photos with loved ones have received negative reactions. In fact, one netizen even assumed things about her relationship with Macky Mathay. "Kaya pala nag hiwalay kau ni Cesar Montano dahil pala nyan ni kalbo dako...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz No one can top the achievements this year by Filipino doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers. They should be Filipinos of the Year for 2020 in any credible list. Every patient who recovered from COVID-19 is a result of the collective efforts of entire teams of doctors,...
