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DEFINITELY not, especially in terms of the most important field that determines whether we are independent or not: our foreign relations.
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DEFINITELY not, especially in terms of the most important field that determines whether we are independent or not: our foreign relations.
DEFINITELY not, especially in terms of the most important field that determines whether we are independent or not: our foreign relations. Except for the six-year (or even five) hiatus after President Rodrigo Duterte declared his policy of "separating" from the US, and when President Gloria Arroyo in 2004 refused to participate anymore in the American illegal invasion of Iraq, we have always been the American toady in our relations with the...
In the past two decades, a new, more radical form of progressivism has taken over American social and political life, even finding its way into the White House. Fresh instances of this new progressivism appear every day. For example:
And so the culture war rages.
June 1 marked the advent of Pride Month – the most important sacrament of the American secular religious calendar. During Pride Month, public schools across the nation teach small children the joys of alternative sexual practices and orientations; corporations plaster their stores in rainbow accoutrements of all sorts; and the federal government of the United…