Duterte
In the Philippines, president Duterte threatens activists with police firing
The government of Rodrigo Duterte has been widely criticized for its high-handed and brutal crackdown against social movements under the pretext of dealing with...
Philippines officially notifies US to end Visiting Forces Agreement
February 11, 2020
The Philippines has officially notified the United States about the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between Manila and Washington, Philippines's...
Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe’s neo-fascists
14 December 2018
The two-day visit of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to Israel this week is only the latest episode in the increasingly open...
Philippine communist leader Jose Maria Sison ‘ready’ for talks
Netherlands-based leader's overture comes as Duterte labels rebels 'terrorists' following December's deadly clashes.
by Ted Regencia
3 Apr. 2018
The exiled leader of the communist party of...
US finds unlikely ally in Vietnam as a former partner tilts...
By Jamie Tarabay,
November 10, 2017
CNN)US President Donald Trump may have left China for the final leg of his Asia tour, but the specter of...
‘We cannot destroy mosques’: Duterte makes a U-turn on his controversial...
Fearing backlash from the local Muslim community in Marawi, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte revoked his earlier permission for the military to bomb mosques on...
President Duterte of the Philippines for Dummies
When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ascended to power in 1999, almost no one in the West, in Asia and even in most of the Latin American countries knew much about his new militant revolutionary anti-imperialism. From the mass media outlets like CNN and the BBC, to local televisions and newspapers (influenced or directly sponsored by Western sources), the ‘information’ that was flowing was clearly biased, extremely critical, and even derogatory.