TWIPH | Bay of Pigs Invasion
Balikan natin kung bakit tinawag na 'perfect failure' ang pag-atake ng United States sa Bay of Pigs sa Cuba.
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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.
COP30 is now in its second week, and climate activists are sounding the alarm over the growing number of fossil fuel lobbyists attending the negotiations.
Garcellano’s “The Philippines As Yugoslavia Revisited” wields academic freedom as a tool to crystallize the best aspects of so-called competing paradigms. But this is less an affirmation of the “marketplace of ideas,” a faux heterodoxy that has no other function but to fragment and marginalize in the name of pluralism than Garcellano’s thoughtful engagement with dialectical thought and totality.
The real underlying cause of deaths in epidemics is the dysfunctional health care system brought about by chronic socio-economic underdevelopment characteristic of a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society victimized by imperialism, not the loss of vaccine confidence due to the “Dengvaxia scare”.
Sa panahon ni Recto hanggang ngayon, makabuluhan pa ring tingnan kung paano natin igigiit ang ating kalayaan, at kung paano natin makakamit ang tamang paggalang at pantay na pagtingin sa atin ng ibang bayan.
Despite the people's success in bringing home the Balangiga bells, much need to be done to cure ourselves of historical amnesia. --- ACT Teachers Partylist
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