By Alex P. Vidal “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”—Mahatma Gandhi WHEN news broke out that the Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the 76th session of United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York City where they nominated Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen
September 24, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “The seven billion people on the plane don’t give a fuck what you want. They want you to program code for cool video games, they want you hot young girls to do porn, and they want you guys to like go build engineering and other stuff to make their lives easier.
September 23, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act – and to hold them accountable when they don’t.”—Samantha Power PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte was scheduled
September 22, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.”—Cal Thomas IF Senator Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao is destined to be the next president of the Philippines, who are we to question it? In life there are infinite possibilities, and if fate and
September 21, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Adversity is a stimulus.”—James Broughton SHORT of running amuck, a 53-year-old Filipino female caregiver protested her “exclusion” from the Excluded Workers Fund, the pandemic “stimulus” largesse for undocumented workers in New York State only. “Nag submit man ko papers pero asta subong wala gid reply kon na approve ako. Ang iban
September 20, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.” – Richard Attias I MET the late former U.S. Olympic coach Lyle Draves, husband of the first woman in history to
September 18, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back – it’s hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.”—Naomi Shihab Nye THE people deserve to know the complete details of Foreign Affairs
September 15, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Politics have no relation to morals.” – Niccolo Machiavelli POLITICIANS excited to talk about politics and their political plans for 2022 but are ashamed because there’s pandemic, should stop worrying. It’s OK to discuss politics. It’s fine if they intend to run and disclose it today. People will understand. What isn’t
September 14, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”—Thomas Szasz SINCE he has already apologized, those who have been offended by Harry Roque’s rant against Philippine College of Physicians president Dr. Maricar Limpin and a group of medical experts recently, should now
September 13, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “There was a lot of me trying to be a ‘fixer.’ I was that kind of guy. I’d meet someone who had ‘so much potential’ that needed ‘help.’ I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.”—Adam Lambert I HAVE reiterated my advice to several undocumented Filipino workers
September 11, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”—Aldous Huxley I stumbled into another self-help book copyrighted in 2000 that promises to multiply our mental power with “simple and enjoyable” exercises scientifically designed to make us smarter, more creative,
September 10, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.” —Orson Scott Card STEPHEN and Leonidas, both residents of the Filipino community in Elmhurst, Queens are among the 1.6 million New Yorkers now facing uncertainties when the federal unemployment benefit programs expired across the country, per federal law, on September
September 9, 2021