Duterte’s announcement that the Philippines will not participate in US naval exercises in the disputed waters comes amid a dramatic escalation of Washington’s preparations for war with China.
The Duterte administration has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with authoritarianism and anti-scientific nonsense.
The new law authorizes surveillance and arrests without warrant of anyone the administration terms ‘a terrorist’
The Duterte administration has responded to the pandemic not with the deployment of masks, testing and treatment, but heavily-armed military checkpoints, armored personnel carriers and police state repression.
Muhyiddin, who was instrumental in the collapse of the government motion, now stands at the head of an ethnic Malay alliance that brings the widely detested UMNO back to power.
The move is the most serious rupture in relations between Manila and its former colonial master since the granting of formal independence on July 4, 1946.
The ruling class opponents to Duterte have suffered a historic defeat, securing not a single seat in the Senate.
Hours after angry teachers denounced the sellout agreement during a mass meeting, the Oakland Education Association claimed the deal had been ratified.
The deal leaves $30 million of district budget cuts and school closures intact, while allowing school closures, giving teachers raises below inflation, and addressing none of their other pressing demands.
The rank-and-file strike committee, at a meeting Thursday night, exposed the anti-democratic measures of the OEA leadership.
As teachers in Oakland California begin their sixth day on strike, the wave of teachers struggles, begun in West Virginia a year ago, continues to expand across the United States.
The district’s financial oversight trustee has threatened to veto any deal that provides wage increases above the rate of inflation.
The Oakland Education Association is collaborating with the Democratic Party, which controls California, to end the strike on the basis of an agreement that will facilitate the continued assault on public education.
The unanimity of Duterte’s coalition is based on its endorsement and expansion of state violence.
Xi Jinping visited Manila in the midst of Washington’s escalation of economic warfare against Beijing and advanced preparations for direct military conflict.
The ruling handed down against Marcos after three decades of delays is an expression of the sharp crisis of political rule under President Duterte.
The battlelines between President Duterte and Senator Trillanes express the twin pressures upon the Filipino ruling class of geopolitical tensions and mounting social unrest.
Manila is seeking funding from Beijing for the most ambitious infrastructure campaign in Philippine history.
The Pentagon, which has been systematically escalating military tensions with Russia, has not taken kindly to Washington’s former colony improving relations with Moscow.
The new policy requiring clubs to submit their plans to the police and to pay for police presence at their meetings is an attack on free speech on campus.
