Tag: Philippine sovereignty
US military presence in the Philippines, 2022-June 2026
Hulyo 10, 2026
The US military is spreading its forces, equipment, and logistics across multiple sites nationwide instead of concentrating them in a few large bases, to make them harder to locate, target, and disable simultaneously. In effect, this makes the whole Philippines a target for foreign military strikes.
Lumang Moda, Bagong Pagpapalala
Isang pag-uusap kay Rizal tungkol sa moda ng produksyon ng Pilipinas*
Hulyo 3, 2026
Mabigatan kaya si Rizal sa mga terminong ginagamit ko? Sasabihin kaya niya na masyado akong mateorya, puro slogan at jargon, at aktibistang parang polyeto magsalita? O susubukan niyang unawain ang mga sinabi ko para higit pang mapopularisa at maihatid sa mas malawak na masa?
Jobs and Pax Silica: The song remains the same
Hunyo 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?
On Trump tariff hikes: PH subservience is not strategy
Hulyo 10, 2025
Subservience isn’t strategy—sovereignty is. A government that charts an independent economic path for the Philippines is long overdue.
America First, Philippines Last: The art of the bad deal
Abril 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.
Global victims of US military aggression
Hulyo 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.
Hindipendence Day: The Matrix is Real
Hunyo 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.
