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Donald Trump’s rallying cry is now “Fight!” — just like that of the Yellowtards

July 16, 2024 benign0 7 Comments

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…

History, Politics

Rape of the Philippines AGAIN!!! Politicians Using Makapili Whitewash Japan’s Abuses

November 10, 2023November 10, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 28 Comments

Sen. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito has labeled Filipinos who are pushing for a diplomatic solution to the South China Sea disputes as Makapili, the term coined for Filipinos who collaborated with the Japanese, when it occupied the country in World War II. Did Senator JV forget that it was the Japanese and Americans that massacred…

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Repivot of Philippine foreign policy back to the US under BBM steals thunder from traditional anti-China Opposition rhetoric

July 23, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The tone Inquirer columnist Randy David himself takes in his piece “Foreign policy in [Marcos’s SONA]” likely mirrors the conundrum he and members of his camp find themselves in today. President Bongbong Marcos is the archenemy of the Opposition and yet he has co-opted their agenda of bringing the Philippines back into America’s arms. This…

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The rise and fall of Afghan president Ashraf Ghani mirrors US puppetry in Philippine politics

September 4, 2021September 4, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

Why does the rise of Ashraf Ghani to President of US-occupied Afghanistan in 2014, sound so familiar? This is because it has been the mold by which the US has implemented its hegemony. A report published that December by European Union electoral observers concluded that there had indeed been rampant fraud in the June [2014]…

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US unilateral pullout from Afghanistan a warning to its “allies”: Americans are NOT the good guys

August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

In his Inquirer piece today “Afghanistan: Biden’s ‘Fall of Saigon’ moment”, columnist Richard Javad Heydarian quotes former US ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker who “points out” that “the rot ‘began under President Trump when he authorized negotiations between the US and the Taliban without the Afghan government in the room,’ which was ‘a huge demoralizing…

History, Society

The United States’ humiliating retreat from Afghanistan is a colossal but UNSURPRISING disaster

August 16, 2021 benign0 6 Comments

A meme that accompanied a tweet issued by The Conversation accompanying a link to their article “As the Taliban returns, 20 years of progress for women looks set to disappear overnight” goes like this: “The world must not look away as the Taliban sexually enslaves women and girls.” Sad as the prospect of what the…

History, Religion, Society

Philippine Opposition “thought leaders” look to Joe Biden’s victory with envy

November 8, 2020 benign0 6 Comments

Philippine Opposition partisans and “activists” are salivating over the victory of Democratic candidate Joe Biden over Donald Trump. Seeing no less than a former colonial master “triumph” over “tyranny” is an inspiration for these folks as they scrounge around for “parallels” with their own plight. With the 2022 national elections in the Philippines just around…

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Joe Biden wins US #Election2020 on an “I am not Donald Trump” platform

November 5, 2020November 5, 2020 benign0 10 Comments

This is what happens when a nation votes against someone rather than for someone. In the case of the United States following this year’s election, the president will be a lame duck with a Senate dominated by Republicans. That’s a statement of relativity although there already is some evidence that Joe Biden may turn out…

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