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PREFACEThere are compelling reasons why I decided to publish the contents of a diary that I have kept to myself for the last thirty years...

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Would you rather live in a democracy or a dictatorship? This might seem like a straightforward and easy question to answer. In the West,...

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Although he wore a flak jacket and carried an Uzi, and had a bodyguard of colonels and majors, when he passed through the crowds his real...

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While the victims have yet to receive justice, the oppressors and culprits are still very much around and planning a comeback and revival...

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To answer this, we need to turn to the material and symbolic conditions for making community especially in places where the drug war has ...

1 LAST NIGHT WHEN I tried again to speak to you, and all I could hear was the silence at the end of your line, your mother took the phone...

PROLOGUE The Chink in the Image IN THE EARLY MORNING of December 30, 1965, a few hundred Filipinos milled around the suburban residence o...

FOREWORD:ADDICTED TO KILLING At about the time I was assigned as Asia correspondent for Channel 4 News and arrived back in the region, a ...

Chapter One : REVIEW OF PHILIPPINE HISTORY Changes in society, are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in socie...

The Diary: An Introduction In the regal isolation of Malacanang Palace, Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos had visions of grandeur....

Foreword When you think of a superhero, you may not imagine a five-foot-two-inch woman with a pen in her hand. But today, journalists ope...

PREFACE There are compelling reasons why I decided to publish the contents of a diary that I have kept to myself for the last thirty year...

Prologue — A Disease of the Heart BROKEN MASTS of sunken ships stuck up out of Manila Bay like a burned-out pine forest when I first arri...

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December 1973 “Don’t stiffen your fingers. Relax them,” the officer instructed me. I was sitting on a gray metal chair next to a battered...

Marcos's network of supporters wanted benefits, favors, and protection; in turn, Marcos needed their support, so the interests of Marcos ...

It thus seeks to re-create a sense of community predicated on the exclusion of the accursed other, whose disposability defines the limits...

We see this, for example, in one of their accounts that show how community and violence, appear to be co-constitutive to residents of the...

Foreword Vicente L. Rafael Set in the sprawling barangay of Bagong Silang in Metro Manila, Steffen Jensen and Karl Hapal’s research for t...

Elite richer The Philippine elite though was protected from the economic meltdown, to a great extent through the Marcos’ regime’s so-call...

Introduction On February 26, 1986, Ferdinand Marcos, the man who ruled the Philippines for almost twenty years, left the presidential pal...