ON the night of August 31, 1939, an operation organized by Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler and his chief deputy Reinhard Heydrich, with the assistance of Abwehr chief Adm. Wilhelm Canaris – and, in a s...

THERE are a couple of interesting things happening this week, including the Asean Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM) being held at the Philippine International Convention Center on Wednesday and Thurs...

AMONG the population of modern-day robber barons holding the entire world in their damp-palmed iron grip, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is probably the worst. He epitomizes the maladjusted worldview of the ...

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

ONE of the most frustrating things about the months-long exercise in sialorrheic self-congratulations that the Marcos administration has engaged in about the Philippines having joined the MAGA regime’s “Pax Silica” initiative is that the actual memorandum of understanding (MOU) that started it all in early February has not been made available to the public, at least until now. Even then, it is only obtainable through indirect channels. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) deigned to provide it upon the request of Congress (more than one request, I heard, but I am not certain) earlier this month in connection with hearings on the 2027 budget. That’s enough of a crack in the Wall of Silence for a sticky-fingered busybody like me, but it’s not really doing a service for the average citizen who has a right to know if his government is selling him out.

OVER the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a somewhat desperate-sounding call to other AI firms to put the brakes on the pace of development, saying that unless some strong guardrails are put i...

FRIDAY, September 11 will mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States in 2001. Around this time every year, I find myself binge-watching videos about the event, and thi...

AS a programming note, I had a different topic in mind for today’s column, but I was somewhat concerned about the reaction it might elicit, so earlier this week I decided to try to smoke out any poten...

IN jaw-dropping news on Wednesday (Sept. 2), Enrique Razon-led Prime Infrastructure Capital Inc. (Prime Infra) announced that it had appointed former BP CEO Tony Hayward to its board of directors. Why...

First of two parts

OVER the weekend, I read an article from one of my innumerable energy-related news subscriptions, a newsletter called Utility Dive, that reported the cancellation by the US Department of Energy on Aug...

ALTHOUGH yesterday (Friday the 21st) was a lovely sunny day here in the ass end of Metro Manila – by my count, the first day in at least 12 with no rain at all – the weather this morning, while still ...

ON Tuesday evening, a day after the unexpected flood emergency that gripped Metro Manila and the surrounding area, I was half-listening to the local TV news when I caught a comment from San Juan Mayor...

OVER the past couple of months, a new hero has emerged here in the Philippines in the person of 21-year-old Alexandra “Alex” Eala, a professional tennis player making waves on the Women’s Tennis Assoc...

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