PH-US relations
On Trump tariff hikes: PH subservience is not strategy
July 10, 2025
Subservience isn’t strategy—sovereignty is. A government that charts an independent economic path for the Philippines is long overdue.
Beyond EDCA
May 8, 2025
The Marcos Jr government is allowing the US military to access facilities beyond the agreed nine EDCA sites – like Subic Bay, a former US military base. This has effectively turned the Philippines into one big US military base, placing the country and Filipinos on the frontlines of a conflict they won’t benefit from.
More weapons, more problems
May 8, 2025
Trump 2.0 and Marcos Jr administration’s acceleration efforts to deter China include the Philippines procuring more military equipment, especially weapons. But this makes the country and Filipinos even more of a target as US-China tensions escalate.
Trump 2.0: The Emperor’s New Clothes
April 14, 2025
The US is undergoing a radical transition from decades of accustomed grand strategies – one that requires a political figure disruptive enough to force that change.
Global victims of US military aggression
July 6, 2024
US’ military interventions globally range from direct military actions to covert operations to military support for client states. Lasting from days or weeks to over many years, these result in significant loss of life.
Independent? How the Philippines still serves US economic interests
June 13, 2024
All the celebratory hullabaloo and hype of “hard-won independence” and being a “free country” distorts how Philippine independence is nominal without true self-determination.
Hindipendence Day: The Matrix is Real
June 13, 2024
The US imperial machine’s grip on the Philippine neocolonial mind is far more subtle and sophisticated than simple puppetry though, and hence so much more powerful.
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.
US drawing in more countries for its militarist agenda in Southeast Asia
May 26, 2024
The US’ military encirclement is one of its most heavy-handed ways to contain China’s expanding influence and to maintain its imperialist hegemony. The US is involving more and more countries to control more foreign armed forces, legitimize its military presence, and promote US arms sales. The militarism is portrayed as promoting stability and security but […]
