The Philippines celebrated Independence Day on June 12 with the usual parade and fireworks.

May 16, 2023 – Number 14 in the United States and Philippines Bilateral Defense Guidelines, forged on May 3 during the official visit of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to Washington D.C, states,“An armed attack in the Pacific, to include anywhere in the South China Sea, on either Philippine or U.S. armed forces – which includes both nations’ Coast Guards – aircraft, or public vessels, would invoke mutual defense commitments under Article IV and Article V of the MDT.”

May 1, 2023 - It was short and clear. And combative.

After two years of pandemic Christmases of gloom and dreariness, this 2022 Christmas  is beginning to look like  a traditional Filipino Christmas  of joy  and cheer. 

It is significant to note that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. chose Indonesia as his first entry to the world stage first week of September.

Journalist Philip Lustre Jr. has reposted his version of the last day of the late Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in Malacañang (Feb. 25, 1986), written two years ago, to counter the version of Sen. Imee Marcos that will be shown in the movie “Maid in Malacañang” about the last three days of the Marcos family in the president’s official residence.

Amidst the preparations for the June 30 inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr as the 17^th president of the Philippines, I’m still dreadfully in awe of the thoroughness of the brainwashing operations that the Marcos family undertook to achieve their rehabilitation in less than four decades.

Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr was interviewed by Times Journal’s Lizzie Lazo and DZRH’s Resty de Quiroz at the house of businessman Eduardo Cojuangco Jr in New Manila, upon his arrival in the Philippines after five years in exile, on Oct. 31, 1991.