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Joel Pablo Salud

Joel Pablo Salud

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Aug 30, 2022

Freedom of the press and Duterte’s long, unmistakable shadow

Freedom of the press is never freer than when it comes at a steep price.

Freedom of the press and Duterte’s long, unmistakable shadow

Joel Pablo Salud

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Aug 16, 2022

Salman Rushdie: Literature as our imaginary homelands

Writers long for safe, quiet spaces.

Salman Rushdie: Literature as our imaginary homelands

Joel Pablo Salud

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Jul 4, 2022

If you can’t tell rumor from history, you’re screwed

On June 30, 1981, roughly 41 years to the day Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. delivered his inaugural address as 17th President of the…

If you can’t tell rumor from history, you’re screwed

Joel Pablo Salud

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Jun 30, 2022

We are legion

Thursday, June 30. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. would be inaugurated later in the day as the 17th President of the Republic of the…

We are legion

Joel Pablo Salud

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Jun 21, 2022

Agri to disagree: Stop harassing and killing farmers

Listening to president-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is like getting caught in a worm hole.

Agri to disagree: Stop harassing and killing farmers

Joel Pablo Salud

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May 12, 2022

An open letter to my children

By now you know the monsters are back.

An open letter to my children

Joel Pablo Salud

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Mar 5, 2022

The invasion of Ukraine gives Putin a hellhole of lousy choices

Hopping into the Salvatore Ferragamo shoes of Russian president Vladimir Putin just to get a feel of what some describe as his…

The invasion of Ukraine gives Putin a hellhole of lousy choices

Joel Pablo Salud

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Feb 21, 2022

Marcos as ‘Messiah’: Nothing can be farther from the truth

Flattery, zealousness, infighting, myth-making, jealousy, unquestioning devotion, betrayal. If you look at the stories behind a tyrant’s…

Marcos as ‘Messiah’: Nothing can be farther from the truth

Joel Pablo Salud

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Jan 18, 2022

We are the resistance: #CourageON

*Even as I write this, Mexican journalist Margarito Martinez was shot dead outside his home in the northern border city of Tijuana. He was…

We are the resistance: #CourageON

Joel Pablo Salud

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Dec 24, 2021

The Years of Magical Journalism: The Provocateur that is Joan Didion

Life changes in an instant / The ordinary instant ~ Joan Didion, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’

The Years of Magical Journalism: The Provocateur that is Joan Didion

Joel Pablo Salud

Joel Pablo Salud

Joel Pablo Salud is the author of several books of fiction and political nonfiction. His opinions in Medium.com are his own.

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