When the presidential elections in the USA were over, I felt it was time to unglue myself from You Tube and go back to listening to local news on AM radio. But when Capitol Hill was attacked on 6 January, breached and occupied by what looked like a blood-thirsty murderous mob of white supremacists (including … Read more
“Maybe, I will have to leave the country, “former US President Donald Trump said, jokingly, in one of his super-spreader rallies. He firmly believed that there was only a one in a quadrillion possibility that he could lose the 3 November elections. Well, he did lose! About 5 million American citizens denied him a second … Read more
The United States of America is no longer a ship at full sail, it seems. Although I am not a US citizen, I am afraid for President Joseph Biden and Vice-president Kamala Harris as their lives are and will always be in constant danger. They are the moving targets of members of those white supremacist … Read more
Yes, that’s us, the Republic of the Philippines, the “showcase of democracy”; it used to be the United States of America that was the light on the hill, the beacon of democracy. But, after that shockingly violent epiphany at their Capitol Hill, I dare say the USA is more of a “showcase of shattered democracy”. … Read more
The first time I saw him at Café Havana, he did not look as if he had five daughters, eleven grandchildren and two great grandchildren, perhaps the latter were not born yet; nevertheless, I would not have believed that he was already a grandfather. He cuts a lean and mean figure of someone who has … Read more