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Book Review of The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons by Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel, Helen Toribio. T’Boli Publishing and Distribution.
An astounding collection of political cartoons at the turn of the 20th century that will open one’s eyes to U.S. imperialist ambition as told through the colonization of the [...]

A Long Way to go for a Date, by Henry Makow
A Book review:
Makow is a divorced, middle-aged American man who finds and weds an impoverished, filipina teenage girl and takes her back to the States. Don’t let the author’s age and success of creating a board game in the U.S. fool you into thinking that [...]

Book Review on 
Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole by Eileen Tabios
Excerpt from the poem Asthma 
“She feels what he sees: the lack of a mountain’s jade face. Traversed by a river flowing like my tears silvered by moonshine. Whose salt etched my cheeks when I watched an ocean seduce him. We share a fate perpetually revolving around water. [...]

no one realizes that they are breathing stale air until they open the windows and let the fresh breeze in. 
colonial mentality is like that. we don’t know what drives our thinking and actions. that’s just how we are. we are unconscious, asleep. little by little we began to revive and wake up. and wonder how [...]