Stirrings from Italy
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
Sunday, March 11, 2018
ITALY’S parliamentary elections concluded earlier this week, but its repercussions are still being discussed all over Europe.
A...
The Return of the Middle Kingdom?
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
Sunday, March 4, 2018
IN THE People’s Republic of China, there now exist plans to lift the term limit for the...
Russian Bots
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
Sunday, February 25, 2018
TWITTER is not a platform that many people would associate with serious political discourse, but apparently that...
There’s not much else to say
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
February 18, 2018
WHEN an acquaintance asked me about the Ilongga who got murdered by her employers in Kuwait, I answered,...
Threatened Pancasila
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
February 11, 2018
INDONESIA’S official ideology is Pancasila, a set of five, interrelated points that combines humanism, religiosity, nationalism and multiculturalism...
Festive rapprochement
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
February 4, 2018
MOST of us probably remember the Maori and Korean performers from last week’s Dinagyang celebration. It was certainly...
Celebrity politics
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
January 14, 2018
AFTER delivering her speech at this year’s Golden Globe Awards, American celebrity Oprah Winfrey found herself being pushed...
INTERNATIONAL ILONGGO | Is Duterte a fascist?
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
Sunday, December 3, 2017
SO PRESIDENT Duterte recently admitted that he’s a fascist. He made the claim in a tongue in...
INTERNATIONAL ILONGGO | The Middle East is changing
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
Sunday, July 2, 2017
ONE OF THE BEST ways to understand the Middle East is to look at the major players....
INTERNATIONAL ILONGGO | An obsolete model
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
Sunday, June 25, 2017
LAST WEEK I wrote about non-state actors. This week, I want to expand on that subject by...