Remembering Ninoy Aquino (Part 1)

How then did this man of privilege become the scourge of the Dictator?

Rethinking Pinochet (and Franco)

If Franco, Pinochet, and Salazar acted like cads, they were at least not total cads with total power, and that is what spells their difference from Stalin, Hitler, and Mao.

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The lotus weeps (a poem for the monks of Burma)

The earth abides and barely feels
The feet that walk upon its face;
But as they lift and as they fall,
The lotus weeps in Myanmar