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The road ahead

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By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo   ON Monday, we troop to the polling places to vote for many reasons. Others vote to move this country forward. Others vote to move themselves to positions of power. Others just respond to monetary stimuli.   The bougainvillea   the bougainvillea watches the road that…

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The road ahead

By May 9, 2022G Spot

Dancing with pain

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By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo   PAIN is a dance in the bottomless pit of desire. There, in the abyss, the darkness becomes the music. It is where ghosts are roused from their sleep, take your hand to the dance floor and whirl your body in the air, unmindful of danger,…

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Dancing with pain

By May 1, 2022G Spot

Blind

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By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo     I was told to use my head if I decide to love you but that is IF, if the decision is mine I know that it is not mine because I told myself not to love you and I still do, like I told…

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Blind

By April 24, 2022G Spot

Urduja

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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…

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Urduja

By April 17, 2022G Spot

Shooting stars

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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…

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Shooting stars

By April 10, 2022G Spot

Women, War and Climate Change

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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…

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Women, War and Climate Change

By April 4, 2022G Spot

And Bush is an honorable man

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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…

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And Bush is an honorable man

By March 28, 2022G Spot

Installing and uninstalling regimes

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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…

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Installing and uninstalling regimes

By March 21, 2022G Spot

Careless whispers

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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…

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Careless whispers

By March 13, 2022G Spot

Mandatory conscription

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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…

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Mandatory conscription

By March 7, 2022G Spot