HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Domingo, my maternal grandfather who all of us his grandchildren didn’t get to meet because he died way ahead of seeing any of his children get married, fought as a guerrilla in World War II. Quite fortunately, he was listed in the roll of guerrillas of the US Armed Forces in...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz A banking industry report said that "as of September, 2020, the total operating income of universal and commercial banks in the Philippines amounted to approximately ₱601.7 billion. Operating income is the company's profit after deducting operating expenses in the country.”...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz These times, one may think that the idea that “civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the the military” is no longer relevant or fashionable, considering the growing role of retired and active generals in our national life. In this time of rampant red-tagging, some...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
HOTSPOT Instead of being the issue, why not be a champion of issues this 2020? The new year challenges you to be inspired, instead of getting fed up. Here are six issues where you could be an influencer or ambassador of this 2020: Mass transportation — We must challenge and discard the logic and...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz One of the things that people liked about Rodrigo Roa Duterte in 2016 was that he promised “genuine change.” He went on to say that he will be the country’s “first socialist president.” His most ardent supporters even said he will head a “revolutionary government.”...
