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A fertilizer crisis unfolds
April 27, 2026
Are we headed to the inevitability of food insecurity or famine from a war that is not of our own making but brings the heaviest toll on us? More expensive fuel and fertilizer should not be a threat if only the Philippine government protects the domestic economy, local food production, and the direct food producers—the farmers and fisherfolk.
US imperial decline and escalation
October 24, 2025
The second Trump presidency deepens rather than resolves the crises of US imperialism, sharpening contradictions both at home and abroad.
Extensive US overseas military bases for domination not defense – IBON
May 27, 2024
The US harps about China and Russia military aggression but its vast network of overseas military bases worldwide which the US has used to launch the most offensive military operations of any country since World War II shows that its aggression is much worse.
Growing global economic distress as G7 meet ends
May 22, 2023
The global economy is being dragged down by fundamental forces that even the mighty US is still captive to. It may be the world’s dominant imperialist power but it is still merely monopoly capitalist and as such subject to the deeply-ingrained contradictions of capitalism.
The G7 summit: Will Hiroshima deliver the economic interests behind militarism?
May 19, 2023
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What the G7 wants and the manner it exacts these are untenable and are only bound to hurt the majority of the world’s populations.
US military spending largest in the world
May 10, 2023
US military spending is larger than of the next ten countries combined — China, Russia, India, Saudia Arabia, United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, and Ukraine. The military spending of just these 11 countries in turn is more than by the remaining 180 or so other countries in the rest of the world combined.
BBM’s US trip: It’s all about US
May 9, 2023
The current Marcos Jr administration will have US support despite its deeply corrupt, dynastic and rights-violating character. Or at least as long as the US keeps getting what it wants, and the Philippines doesn’t ask for anything that the US doesn’t want to give — like real freedom and development, or sovereignty and independence.
“Independent foreign policy”? Not in WPS
June 15, 2021
