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EDSA ek ek

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The following is an article by Magdalena Torres that first saw print 27 years ago, shortly after the “EDSA revolution.”   After all these years of celebrating EDSA I, we ask ourselves: What has the Feb. 25 EDSA revolution really done for the Filiinos?    It is interesting to note that in spite of the “miracle at EDSA” the people of this only Christian nation in Asia have remained loyal to anyone but Christ. Note the various factions we are thanking for the so called “bloodless revolution.” Believers in the US supremacy maintain that it is the American intervention in Philippine affairs that saved the Filipinos from a bloodbath. Fans of the Enrile-Ramos block insist that the “bloodless revolution” would not have happened without their heroes’ crucial change of heart. Marcos sympathizers assert that there surely would have been bloodshed had it not been for Marcos’ love for his people. A foreign correspondent writes that the television cameras (notably those which recorde

Symptoms of a greater malady

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By Teresa R. Tunay, OCDS    Judging by the headlines these days, so much is happening around the world which seems to say that human life is getting cheaper and cheaper by the day.    Teenagers going on a shooting rampage on campuses, killing scores of schoolmates and children.   Desperate fathers and mothers killing their children and then themselves.   Jealous husbands shooting their wives and then committing suicide.   Angry women killing their partners over unsatisfying sex.   Fetuses found in odd places, mostly females ones in certain countries.             In our own backyard, the life-is-cheap trend seems to be on the rise, too. Motorcycling gunmen riding in tandem go almost scot-free as the number of unsolved cases rise.   Politics-related murders are almost taken for granted.   The Atimonan ambush, formerly labeled a “shootout”, remains a mystery as authorities drag their feet in coming up with explanations.             These are not mere headlines, especially when vi