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This article reexamines the so-called “Axis of Resistance” in light of recent escalations, ceasefire breakdowns, and renewed regional strikes, arguing that these movements are not Iranian proxies but historically rooted formations shaped by prolonged war and fragmentation, whose emerging multi-front deterrence reveals new forms of armed sovereignty and exposes the limits of US-led imperial power.
“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.”
As host to numerous U.S. military sites and weapons systems, the Philippines could likewise become a target in similar conflicts involving the US.
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.
“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.”
"The defense of Venezuelan sovereignty is inseparable from the defense of Philippine sovereignty.”
Progressive organizations condemn the US-Israel attack on Iran and the continued genocide in Palestine, burning the flag of “the number one terrorist.”
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines International Office said that Duterte’s crimes are beyond his so-called “war on drugs,” pointing out that his government carried out systematic killings of its peace consultants, aerial bombings of civilian communities, and the torture and execution of captured Red fighters (hors de combat). These, they added, are all in blatant disregard of the laws of war.
Friends sometimes turn a blind eye to the shortcomings and excesses of their friends but we have always overlooked what the US has done to our country over the past century. The myth of friendship persists which allowed the US to expand its bases and military presence while claiming that all this is for our own good. To punish us for the sins of the few ungrateful ones, they even asked a former bully to play their war games in our backyard.
The "shutdown APEC" protests in San Francisco, California gathered more than a thousand people who shared testimonies about how APEC impoverished a generation, displaced Indigenous peoples, and undermined the rights of workers.
"Filipinos must not allow our country to be used as staging ground for any US military intervention in the region. The US is engaged in provocations with China using the issue of Taiwan. Allowing US use of our facilities will drag us into this conflict which is not aligned with our national interests" -- Bayan
The US aggressive military postures toward China entails a maximized implementation of the VFA and EDCA as well as a more extensive presence of US military troops and facilities through US military largesse swapped with local oligarchic fealty to US military and economic interests.
It seems that from being a direct colony of the world’s top superpower, Afghanistan will now be subject to competition for influence by other global powers.
The immediate effect was to facilitate a conversation, if not an outright stand on imperialist wars waged by the U.S.
One half-century later, the Progressive International (PI) is once again calling on the conscience of mankind against the crimes of US imperialism.
Under the guise of ‘freedom of navigation’ and ‘commitment to support regional stability’, China and the US have been taking turns in militarizing our territorial waters and plundering our natural resources.
Without undergoing a revolutionary process, governments in neo-colonies like the Philippines cannot plan. This government will always have to wait for imperialist dictates through neoliberal structural adjustment of the economy and culture. This government has no sense of nation because to think of nation and national sovereignty is to be up against imperialism, which has been the source of political and economic power by rich and corrupt Filipino politicians.
Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the U.S. government is brokering a $2 billion arms sale to Duterte’s repressive regime, fueling a human rights catastrophe.
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