On August 8, 1635, a slave named Maria was killed by her master in the Philippines and he is later executed for it. This is a window into issues of sex slavery and colonialism, a topic which deserves more attention in our larger consideration of...
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We continue our tour of colonization through film footage by looking at this 9 minute 1930s travel piece on Cebu, Philippines, which pretty much consists of lionizing Magellan (who died.
On Monday, The Philippines will hold (are holding, we're well into Monday there) a rare thing in the world: an American-style midterm election. All 317 seats in the House of.
Can you imagine this happening in a failed state like the United States? I mean, a murderous dictator getting arrested on an International Criminal Court warrant? Some were shot by vigilantes on motorbikes. Others had bullets in the head, execution style. In killing after killing,...
On November 13, 1986, the Filipino labor leader Rolando Olalia was assassinated by military officers infuriated by the loss of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and their belief that the labor movement.
Source: The Kremlin I've got a newish, short piece up at the website for Exit from Hegemony. As is my wont, I'm cross-posting it here. In The National Interest, Richard Javad Heydarian writes that: For.
There is so little interest in the American media--or even among the American left--about the actual conditions of American corporation exploitation of the global poor, that it's rare to even hear about it. Thus, I was glad to talk to Kalena Thomhave for her piece...
Since Trump is obsequious to every tin pot strongman around the world, I can't wait to see how he kisses the ring of Rodrigo Duterte. After all, Duterte's murderous regime.
The thing about Rodrigo Duterte is that for an authoritarian like Trump, he says things that Trump would like to say himself but can't yet. And you know President Pussy.
There's too much foreign policy winning going on here. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus defended President Donald Trump's decision to invite Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte to the White House, saying the visit is necessary to work together against North Korea. "This is a...
On March 24, 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Tydings-McDuffie Act. Better known as the Philippine Independence Act, Tydings-McDuffie initially sounds like a victory for anti-colonialist forces. However, a.
On July 6, 1924, members of the Philippine Scouts, a division of Filipino troops in the U.S. Army occupying the Philippines, refused to drill to protest their poor pay and.