US Aid

PH largest recipient of US foreign aid in Southeast Asia
June 14, 2025

Philippines largest recipient of US aid in Southeast Asia
April 27, 2025
Philippines largest recipient of socioeconomic, mlitary and security aid in Southeast Asia

The development myth of USAID
February 27, 2025
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USAID has operated not without dubious intentions.

PH biggest recipient of US aid in Southeast Asia
April 18, 2024
The Philippines is the biggest recipient of US aid in Southeast Asia. This isn’t really help for Filipinos but the US ensuring the Philippines plays its critical role in upholding US superpower military and economic dominance in the region.

US Military Aid for PH Grows
December 17, 2020

US Aid Increasing Under Duterte
July 3, 2019

Philippines in a Happy and Healthy Relationship with China?
November 28, 2018
by Sonny Africa IBON Features – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recently concluded state visit was hyped as historic and relationship-altering in a good way towards “comprehensive, strategic cooperation”. The joint statement released at the end spoke of a couple with a healthy relationship: reminiscing the past, establishing trust, open communication, arguing in a healthy way […]

Rejecting US ‘aid’ even better–IBON
May 18, 2017
Research group IBON said that the spirit of the Duterte administration’s rejection of official development aid (ODA) from the European Union (EU) for being used to intervene in the Philippines’ internal affairs is welcome. There is however a much clearer and stronger basis to reject ‘aid’ from the United States (US), which has used its […]

Then and now: US economic intervention in the Philippines
November 14, 2016
During the swearing-in of the new United States (US) ambassador to the Philippines in early November, US Secretary of State John Kerry stressed that the “logic” of the “indelible” US-Philippine alliance is “as compelling today as [it has] ever been”. Newly sworn-in US ambassador Sung Kim in turn highlighted the “ironclad” Mutual Defense Treaty, the […]