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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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Philippines' Forgotten Revolution: General Luna and the Quest for Independence - Huffington Post

Philippines' Forgotten Revolution: General Luna and the Quest for Independence - Huffington Post | real utopias | Scoop.it
The brutal assassination of Luna by his fellow revolutionaries, who saw arrogance more than merit, serves as a cautionary tale, a reminder of how the Philippines' greatest enemy was (and is) internal divisions and narrow loyalties, which have...
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Pope Francis in the Philippines: Inspiring Political Transformation - Huffington Post

Pope Francis in the Philippines: Inspiring Political Transformation - Huffington Post | real utopias | Scoop.it
Pope Francis' recent visit -- capturing the hearts and minds of Filipinos from all walks of life, regardless of gender, class, and religion -- to the Philippines couldn't be timelier.
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Indonesia and the Philippines: A tale of two democracies - Aljazeera.com

Indonesia and the Philippines: A tale of two democracies - Aljazeera.com | real utopias | Scoop.it

In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the Czech legendary writer Milan Kundera famously argued: "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." In many ways, this was the struggle that defined the most recent elections in the world's third largest democracy, Indonesia.


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Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation