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As expected, following the attack over the weekend mounted by a joint United States and Israel force on Iran resulting in the deaths of senior leaders of their Islamic regime including its “supreme leader” the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left-of-centre elements are crying over the breakdown of “international law”. Writing for The Conversation, Shannon Brincat and…
Equally baffling and not surprising is the support expressed by a known front of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (Solidarity of Drivers and Operators’ Organizations Nationwide) or PISTON. In a published statement, the group called the U.S. to keep their “hands off” Venezuela. This…
Had to believe that a veteran political operative such as Lito Banayo dislikes US president-elect Donald Trump. What’s not hard to believe is he has a child who is a US citizen. Most of the children of the elite of our country are dual citizens or have migrated to other countries for obvious reasons. Banayo…
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Donald Trump is the 47th President of the United States. He won on the back of a no-nonsense campaign that addressed issues that hit Americans right at their very backyards. This proved effective against rival and Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris’s play of the gender and race cards backed by a who’s who of A-list…
In an ironic twist of fate, former United States president Donald Trump is now basking in the limelight following his survival of an assassination attempt over the weekend. The Colonial Master’s politics now mirrors the necropolitics of its Mini-Me in southeast Asia — except that the beneficiary of the violence lived to fight on. CNN…
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Quite confronting that an assassination attempt on a former American president and the Republican candidate in the coming presidential election in the United States could still happen in this day and age. Following shots fired during former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania resulted in the deaths of a member of the audience and…
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Filipino neoliberals seem to be obsessed with the victim mindset. In his recent Inquirer column, Randy David describes Americans voting for former President Donald Trump as flirting with one-man rule because of the possibility that Trump might win again in 2024. “This,” David writes to punctuate his point, “is how dictatorships are born—often on the…
People have gained a sudden appreciation of just how little in the way of alternatives there are on the Net following a disturbing collusion amongst the biggest Silicon Valley digital empires to silence US President Donald Trump and his followers. Nowhere has this problematic power been on display more than in the shutting down of…
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