PH: America, Marcos and AFP can get us nuked

IF advocates of the United States’ access to bases of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and US deployment of intermediate-range missiles prove the above headline unduly alarmist, this writer would be most thankful.

America, Marcos and AFP can get us nuked (archived)

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How is the US Convincing the Philippines to Destroy Itself?

As China rises, Asia rises with it. The Southeast Asian state of the Philippines stood to rise alongside the rest of the region until relatively recently as the United States successfully convinces the Philippines to do otherwise. 

How is the US Convincing the Philippines to Destroy Itself? (archived)

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PH’s PressONE is funded by several US front organizations:

The Philippine Fact-Checker Incubator was established with the financial backing of Facebook, in collaboration with VERA Files and Rappler. The incubated organizations include ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs, Manila Broadcasting Company, MindaNews, Philstar.com, PressONE.ph, and Probe Productions. They are accredited by the International Fact-Checking Network. – PFCIPoytner.

Poynter Institute has been funded by the Gates Foundation, the Koch Network, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Omidyar Network, and Open Society Foundations.  Other sponsors are CNN, the Scripps Howard Foundations, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, TEGNA Foundation, etc..

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Western Intervention in the U.S.S.R.

Since the early 1980s the USA has waged and intense political and economic war against the Soviet Union. A former UN military and political analyst puts the pieces together.

Western Intervention in the U.S.S.R. by Sean Gervasi

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Venezuela: Supreme Court Confirms Nicolás Maduro’s Victory (+Far-Right Response)

The Electoral Chamber of Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) validated the results issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the presidential elections held on July 28. The decision is contained in a ruling that was read at the TSJ headquarters in Caracas in the presence of the diplomatic corps and Venezuelan officials.

Venezuela: Supreme Court Confirms Nicolás Maduro’s Victory (+Far-Right Response)

Previously:

María Corina Machado is the female Javier Milei (aka US Puppet)

UN team in Dhaka to set up probe of student protest killings + Notes

UN team in Dhaka to set up probe of student protest killings

Rory Mungoven, chief of the Asia Pacific region at the OHCHR, is leading the three-member team, which met Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen after arrival in Dhaka.

“We want to believe that we will have a proper investigation,” Umama Fatema, coordinator of Students Against Discrimination, the main protest organizing group, told Arab News.

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Mexico: Presidential Letter to Biden Criticises US for Internal Affairs Meddling! (20.8.2024)

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) — Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in a letter to his American counterpart Joe Biden, denounced the “interference” of U.S. government agencies in Mexico’s domestic affairs, particularly their financing of an opposition-controlled non-governmental association (NGO).

Mexico: Presidential Letter to Biden Criticises US for Internal Affairs Meddling! (20.8.2024)

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