By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON a warm, busy morning after assisting the hired workers to clean in the garden of my sister Emma and the adjacent lot which we adopted to clean, green and beautify at Filinvest, I received a video of a uniquely-conceived campaign material incorporating Urduja, Pangasinan’s…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I am fascinated with shooting stars, tiny particles of dust from space that burn up above Earth’s surface as they dive down at an incredible velocity in the sky, glowing as they pass and then as quickly, gone. I remember waiting at the school…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THERE are many kinds of war that women fight. There are silent wars that seek liberation from patriarchy, gut wars that has something to do with the eradication of poverty and hunger and so many others that impact on human lives in general, particularly women’s…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SOME time in January 2022, former Syrian intelligence officer “Anwar Raslan, 58, was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people” and the torture of at least 4,000 prisoners at the Al-Khatib detention centre in Damascus, also known as “Branch 251”, in 2011 and…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo FOUND an article entitled, “US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev” written by Ian Traynor of the Guardian dated Fri 26 Nov 2004. It summarizes thus: “But while the gains of the orange-bedecked “chestnut revolution” are Ukraine’s, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THESE days, I get notifications on Ukraine. If I listen to all the traditional media outlets, the social media and succumb to the propaganda, I would be unduly skewered with the rest of the public who have given opinions without re-reading the history of the…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo FRANCIS Fukuyama, a US political scientist urged Taiwan to rethink its defense policy and reinstate mandatory military conscription. Fukuyama said that “Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which was generally perceived as unthinkable even few months back, is now a distinct possibility.” In his keynote address entitled…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IT rains again, and I am calm. I have accepted you are gone. A thing I remember when it rains. I remember your eyes, your soft eyes against the backdrop of pine needles in whose tips tiny round balls of rain gather before they drop…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN the middle of transporting pails of water to the front garden, a dear friend Fe Mangahas called on the phone. She wanted us to pay our respect to a mutual friend, Dick Malay who passed on last 05 February 2022. I told her I…
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