When you fuel your vehicle here in the Philippines and wince at the price, which has surged above ₱100 a liter for diesel alone, you may be told that Iran’s “blockade” of the Strait of Hormuz is to blame. But the truth exposes this as deliberate distortion. While the United States and Israel were actively...
Author: Sarah Raymundo
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Sovereignty under siege: Witnessing life and resistance in Venezuela
Caracas has long lived under the shadow of siege. Well before any single headline, the city learned to recognize the familiar signals: airspace violations recast as “exercises,” mercenary plots cloaked in deniability, economic strangulation sanitized as “sanctions,” and an unrelenting media narrative that treats regime change as inevitable. In recent days, these pressures converged once...
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‘Quezon’ and the politics of memory: How cinema rewrites history
There’s something unsettling about how “Quezon” forces us to look again at a man we thought we knew. The film doesn’t simply replay a chapter of history—it rebuilds it. And that’s where the argument begins: depiction, not duplication. Cinema is not a mirror of the past but a creative act of cultural production, one that...