CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – I don’t blame some of our kababayans (country mates) if they decide for themselves in handling discrimination cases against their employers instead of reaching out to some local community civil rights groups, like the ubiquitous American Civil Liberties Union or the Asian Pacific American Pacific Legal Center (APALC), before locking up on a lawyer that… Read More »

CHICAGO (JGL) – Vice President Leni Robredo grudgingly paid 8-million pesos (US$160,000) for her elections counter-protest while her losing vice presidential rival former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. gingerly parted with his 36-million pesos (US$720,000) for his elections protest. Either way, you look at it, there is something wrong – very wrong– with the Philippine political system that… Read More »

CHICAGO (JGL) – There are only very few palindromes – words, phrase or even numbers — that can be read either forward or backward. Words like “Eve,” “pop” or “noon;” phrases like “Evil olive” or “No lemon, no melon” or numbers like “11,” “121” and so on are palindromes. But there are fewer still when it comes to… Read More »

                    ‘Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honour in his own country.” John 4:44   CHICAGO (JGL) – Many people think, the twin surreal triumphs of foul-mouthed  President Rody Duterte in the Philippines and anti-establishment President-elect Donald Trump in the United States elections are the most lasting legacies left to us by… Read More »

CHICAGO (JGL) – President Rody Duterte was right when he called the United States hypocrite in flaming a foreign newsman for blaming Mr. Duterte of human rights violations when there were thousands of victims of extra-judicial killings under his watch without due process related to his war on drugs under five months of his presidency. “Tang-ina mo! (You… Read More »

CHICAGO (JGL) – The Philippines along with Cuba and a group of Pacific Islands, including Puerto Rico and Guam, was bought by the United States at a discount for $20-M ($549-M in today’s currency) so that a bloody Spanish-American War would be averted in pursuit of America’s “Manifest Destiny” to spread freedom and democracy around the world. Instead… Read More »

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pennsylvania (JGL) – Vice President Leni G. Robredo told a press conference here Saturday that “extra-judicial killings” have got to stop, “pero (but) I’m just one voice even if I am vice president.  I think media can do a lot as far as creating a mindset that this is not right. There have been few voices… Read More »

CHICAGO (JGL) – The United Nations Convention of the Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS) was described as “a monumental achievement of the international community, second only to the Charter of the UN” after its birth 34 years ago. When UNCLOS was ready for signature on Dec. 10, 1982, 119 countries signed the treaty on the very first day of… Read More »

  CHICAGO (JGL) – Incoming Philippine President Rody Duterte is right. There are corrupt journalists, whom he classifies as the legitimate ones he calls “crusaders, who bare all to the public”; the semi-legitimate he calls “mouthpieces of vested interests,” and the illegitimate “hao ciao” and/or “block timer” he calls “lowlifes.” But these “mouthpieces of vested interests” and “lowlifes”… Read More »

  CHICAGO (JGL) – Nobody, not even among his supporters, saw it coming. Everybody was caught by surprise when Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte steamrolled his opponents, who promptly threw in the towel after the votes for Duterte from the quick count of the PPCRV (Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting) started barreling in like the second coming of… Read More »