United States
Jobs and Pax Silica: The song remains the same
June 27, 2026
Pax Silica taunts the calamity that will come: how many Filipinos will remain barely afloat on rotting wooden pieces of part-time manufacturing work while foreign billionaires spectate on glimmering yachts?
Will Pax Silica industrialize the Philippines?
May 14, 2026
As the political drama unfolds, the Marcos administration allows continuing bigtime foreign plunder of the country’s resources. We’re dazzled with talk about billions of dollars in semiconductor and AI investments and exports. But is the Pax Silica hype the same as industrialization?
US overseas military footprint [UPDATED]
March 3, 2026
The US’s 742 military bases worldwide aren’t about defense — they’re a global launchpad for war. They ring the world as the US’s infrastructure for intervention, coercion, and control to maintain US hegemony. The latest unprovoked attacks on Iran show exactly how those bases are used.
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.
America First, Philippines Last: The art of the bad deal
April 29, 2025
COMMENTARY
It is baffling how the Philippine government can so badly misread the US’s unambiguous “America First” statements and actions as signaling an interest in Philippine development.
The G7 summit: Will Hiroshima deliver the economic interests behind militarism?
May 19, 2023
FEATURES
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.
China a growing but still minor ODA partner of the Philippines
November 28, 2018
