US threats vs ICC spell impunity for Filipinos — int’l rights group
"An assertion that US personnel must enjoy impunity no what their alleged crimes."
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"An assertion that US personnel must enjoy impunity no what their alleged crimes."
U.S. imperialism in the Philippines today represents not merely a continuation of traditional neocolonial domination but a substantial deepening of imperialist control shaped by the intensifying U.S-China competition
From the Himalayas to the Pacific Islands, we are fighting the same beast. We see the convergence of everything—the climate crisis, the mining companies, the war machines, the geopolitics.
The state must fulfill its legal requirement to repatriate citizens because this statutory right to mandatory repatriation exists as an enforceable obligation.
The monopoly bourgeoisie in the major capitalist powers has failed to resolve the crisis of overproduction despite decades of neoliberal restructuring, financialization, and militarization.
Balikan natin kung bakit tinawag na 'perfect failure' ang pag-atake ng United States sa Bay of Pigs sa Cuba.
“Our hands are on the trigger, and the moment the slightest error is committed by the enemy, it will be responded to with full power.”
Even without a war and an oil shock, and even in times when oil prices are relatively low or declining, the Filipino people are still being oppressed and exploited by local pump price profiteering, and global monopoly and speculative pricing due to oil deregulation.
Without sovereignty, there is no terrain on which struggles for democracy, workers' rights, or women's liberation can occur.
The military aggression of US and Israel across Iran has triggered widespread instability across West Asia and a threat to the international human rights law.
By accommodating multiple US military facilities and weapons platforms, the Philippines exposes itself to becoming a potential target in conflicts involving the US.
“This board is outside the framework of the United Nations and has not included the Palestinian authority, the future of Gaza nor the future of the West Bank.”
History has shown us that when sovereignty is compromised in the name of “stability” or “democracy,” it is always the people who pay the price.
Two days after United States President Donald Trump confirmed that they carried out large scale strike against Venezuela, progressive organizations, along with Philippine-Bolivarian Venezuela Friendship Association, march to U.S. embassy to their condemn military...
Protesters explain why they are denouncing the military aggression of United States against Venezuela, and why Filipinos should stand in solidarity against US imperialism. | via Aizel Mae Tugalon/Bulatlat...
“The real objective of US aggression against Venezuela is not the fictitious ‘war on narcotics’. What US imperialism seeks is control over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves and strategic resources, control over its political orientation, and control over the direction of [Latin America and the Caribbean] as a whole.”
Progressive organizations led by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) along with the Philippines-Bolivarian Venezuela Friendship Association (PBVFA) marched to the US embassy, denouncing the United States' (US) aggressive military attacks on Venezuela.
“The imperialist US targets Venezuela because it nationalizes its oil industry, driving away the American corporations."
The Venezuelan government said that they have been defending their sovereignty and right to self-determination for more than 200 years of independence.
The island chain is not a novel concept but a recalibration of a Cold War strategy aimed at containing Soviet expansionism in the past, and undermining China's rise as a superpower today and in the near future.
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