Duterte – David Haldane

February 9, 2023

Soldiers

By David Haldane Feb. 9, 2023 I have a vivid memory of the coffee we sipped. It was bitter, somehow off kilter, as if […]

April 7, 2022

Another Day Off

By David Haldane April 7, 2022 The silence was unsettling. On a Monday morning usually given to the strangely soothing sounds of hammers crunching nails, […]

March 10, 2022

Back to the Barricades

By David Haldane March 10, 2022 For the first time in decades, I feel like an antiwar protestor. It’s not an entirely novel sensation. As […]

November 18, 2021

Weird Angles

By David Haldane Nov. 18, 2021 The thing I remember most is the moonbeams on the water. Like crazy lightning bolts from above, they careened […]

October 21, 2021

A Thousand Cuts

By David Haldane Oct. 21, 2021 The title says it all. “A Thousand Cuts” is the name of a PBS documentary in which renowned Philippine […]

September 2, 2021

Back on Track

By David Haldane September 2, 2021 His excitement was palpable. “Daddy,” he announced from the dimly lit screen of my cell phone, “I made a […]

July 29, 2021

Stuck Behind Walls

By David Haldane July 29, 2021 It could be worse, of course. I could be without Internet, TV and a view of the construction […]

July 1, 2021

Mandatory Jabs

By David Haldane June 30, 2021 He doesn’t always mean what he says. Then again, sometimes he does. Which is why Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s […]