Revisiting U.S.-Philippine Relations: President-elect Biden confronts Duterte's bloody rampage
An Interview with Bill Fletcher by E. San Juan, Jr. Amid the horrendous pandemic ravaging of the globalized political-economy of Europe and North America, particularly the imperial U.S. heartland with close to half-a-million deaths, peripheral nations remain negligible. The neoliberal consensus has collapsed, inaugurating a new era of trade wars and ecological disasters. Such “shithole” countries like the Philippines, to use President Trump’s rubric, rarely enter public attention. For over half a century, the Philippines was the only U.S. colony in Asia—now a neocolony—trumpeted as...
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