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Philippines: VP Duterte Says She’s Hired an Assassin to the Kill President If She Turns Up Dead
•�November 25, 2024
•�800 Words •�29 Comments • Reply
So, the story here is: Rody Duterte won the 2016 Philippine election and then was forced out in the next cycle. He still had overwhelming popular support, so he forced Marcos, the then incoming and now sitting president, to make his lesbian daughter vice-president. The core debate is over the relationships with China and America.... Read More
Philippines: Duterte Testifies on His Use of Death Squads as Mayor of Davao
•�October 30, 2024
•�800 Words •�48 Comments • Reply
This is hardly news. I actually lived in Davao while Duterte was mayor, and it was widely known he ran death squads. They called them “DDS” (Davao Death Squads). Not only did Duterte admit to doing this while mayor, he also ran for president on a platform of nationalizing the death squad program. So the... Read More
If Duterte Wants Us Out, Let's Go
•�February 18, 2020
•�800 Words •�4 Comments • Reply
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has just given us notice he will be terminating the Visiting Forces Agreement that governs U.S. military personnel in the islands. His notification starts the clock running on a six-month deadline. If no new agreement is negotiated, the VFA is dissolved. What triggered the decision? Duterte was offended that one of... Read More
The Philippines Are Choosing New Allies - Asia Is Watching
•�February 13, 2020
•�2,900 Words •�33 Comments • Reply
Now what? President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines is outraged. He wants an end to the U.S. military presence in his country. He wants to curb all cooperation with the U.S. armed forces. He hits hard, talks big. And his people seem to be behind him, no matter what – his popularity rating is high... Read More
Forty-Five Blows Against Democracy
How U.S. Military Bases Back Dictators, Autocrats, and Military Regimes
•�May 16, 2017
•�2,300 Words •�Leave a Comment
Much outrage has been expressed in recent weeks over President Donald Trump’s invitation for a White House visit to Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, whose “war on drugs” has led to thousands of extrajudicial killings. Criticism of Trump was especially intense given his similarly warm public support for other authoritarian rulers like Egypt’s Abdel... Read More
Alfred McCoy: Would-be Strongmen Worldwide
•�April 2, 2017
•�600 Words •�8 Comments • Reply
Whatever the relations may or may not have been between Donald Trump and his crew and Vladimir Putin and his crew, here’s one thing that the two presidents do not have in common: popularity. According to polls, Putin’s approval rating was at 82% late last year. In his 17-year reign, he’s never fallen below the... Read More
The Bloodstained Rise of Global Populism
A Political Movement’s Violent Pursuit of “Enemies”
•�April 2, 2017
•�3,100 Words •�2 Comments • Reply
In 2016, something extraordinary happened in the politics of diverse countries around the world. With surprising speed and simultaneity, a new generation of populist leaders emerged from the margins of nominally democratic nations to win power. In doing so, they gave voice, often in virulent fashion, to public concerns about the social costs of globalization.... Read More
When Duterte Met Abe
Is Japan the America’s Pit Bull or Lap Dog… …or Dog in the Manger?
•�November 3, 2016
•�1,200 Words •�56 Comments • Reply
As I discuss in my most recent piece for Asia Times, Duterte v. United States: The Empire Slaps Back, I find the US tunnel vision concerning Asian attitudes toward engagement with China puzzling. The big story in Asia IMO is the smaller powers trying to integrate with the PRC economically while keeping it at arms’... Read More
It’s ON! Between Duterte and America
•�October 27, 2016
•�700 Words •�7 Comments • Reply
I’ve written a couple pieces of the smoking hot issue in Pivotland, Philippine president Duterte’s swerve toward a pro-PRC foreign policy, and what the U.S. and pro-American sector of the Manila elite are going to do about it. The first piece, Reports of death of US-Philippine alliance may be exaggerated, addresses the fact that Duterte’s... Read More
«America Has Lost» in the Philippines
•�October 25, 2016
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«Your honors, in this venue I announce my separation from the United States… both in military and economics also». Thus Philippines President Rodrigo «The Punisher» Duterte unleashed a geopolitical earthquake encompassing Eurasia and reverberating all across the Pacific Ocean. And talk about choosing his venue with aplomb; right in the heart of the Rising Dragon,... Read More
Dump Duterte -- for Starters
•�October 25, 2016
•�900 Words •�44 Comments • Reply
Alliances are transmission belts of war. So our Founding Fathers taught and the 20th century proved. When Britain, allied to France, declared war on Germany in 1914, America sat out, until our own ships were being sunk in 1917. When Britain, allied to France, declared war on Germany, Sept. 3, 1939, we stayed out until... Read More
Obama’s Pivot to Asia Hits a Roadblock in the Philippines
•�October 24, 2016
•�500 Words •�7 Comments • Reply
While the mainstream media continues its obsessive reporting on the mud-slinging campaign for the White House, a dramatic development in China last week brought President Obama’s “pivot to Asia” to a sudden halt. Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, while in Beijing, announced his country’s “separation” from the United States. He told his Chinese audience, “Your honors,... Read More
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Washington’s ‘Pivot to Asia’: A Debacle Unfolding
•�October 24, 2016
•�2,000 Words •�89 Comments • Reply
Introduction: In 2012 President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter launched a new chapter in their quest for global dominance: a realignment of policies designed to shift priorities from the Middle East to Asia. Dubbed the ‘Pivot to Asia’, it suggested that the US would concentrate its economic, military and... Read More
Regime Change In the Philippines
•�October 12, 2016
•�500 Words •�4 Comments
When will the neoconservative chant begin: “Duterte must go”? Or will the CIA assassinate him? President Rodrigo Duterte has indicated that he intends a more independent foreign policy. He has announced upcoming visits to China and Russia, and his foreign minister has declared that it is time for the Philippines to end its subservience to... Read More
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How Do You Handle a Problem Like Rodrigo Duterte?
•�September 13, 2016
•�2,000 Words •�74 Comments • Reply
Awkwardly, apparently. Awkward facts surrounding Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's awkward estrangement from the United States seem to produce some awkward reporting. I have a piece up at Asia Times about “Sonofawhore-gate” i.e. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s alleged insult delivered to President Obama that got the Duterte-Obama confab in Laos canceled, and was breathlessly reported in... Read More
Mindanao, Duterte, and the Real History of the Philippines
•�May 23, 2016
•�4,100 Words •�34 Comments • Reply
The U.S. government and the Manila elite are pretty interested in hyping the naval confrontation with the PRC, while going all "bygones" on the bloody, corrupting, ongoing, and (for some elite Filipinos empowering and enriching) U.S. deep penetration of the Philippines' political and security regimes. Duterte upsets this script, because his political career has been... Read More
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Duterte Victory Reminds U.S. That the Philippines Is Not Just a China-Containment SCS Naval Play
•�May 19, 2016
•�2,900 Words •�12 Comments • Reply
I have a piece up exclusively at Asia Times, Duterte’s Beef with America. Go read it! It unpacks the story of Duterte’s coolness to the United States dating back to the Michael Meiring incident in 2002. Duterte’s spokesman recently cited the Meiring case in explaining his attitude toward the U.S., leading to a New York... Read More
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