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Continue reading →: SONA 2017: What’s in it for China in Duterte’s ‘Build, Build, Build’?Big infrastructure lenders like China and Japan profit not only from the interests accruing from their loans to build rails and roads. The larger gains they make are from the conditionalities they tie to these loans.
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Continue reading →: SONA 2017: Business interests with ties to Duterte to benefit from Martial Law extensionPresident Rodrigo Duterte with his Martial Law administrator Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and implementor Armed Forces Chief General Eduardo Año (Photo from Al Jazeera) As expected, the so-called supermajority in Congress granted the extension of Martial Law that President Rodrigo Duterte asked for. Martial Law would be in effect in…
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Continue reading →: Martial Law: Lorenzana and Año’s “innovative” approach not just vs. Maute?Defense Sec. Delfin Lorenzana and AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Eduardo Año (Photo from Frances Mangosing/inquirer.net) Is Martial Law Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and armed forces chief (and now Martial Law administrator) Gen. Eduardo Año’s “innovative” approach to end the armed conflict in Mindanao and to achieve the military establishment’s…
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Continue reading →: ‘Dutertenomics’: golden age of oligarchic and foreign interests in infrastructure?“Build, build, build” is said to be the foundation of the Duterte administration’s development plan, which his economic managers are packaging as “Dutertenomics”. The plan is supposed to usher in a “golden age of infrastructure”. But despite the attempt at branding, Dutertenomics is neither new nor unique. Its cornerstone of…
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Continue reading →: Trump builds ‘legitimacy’ thru bombs and war-making
When Donald Trump surprisingly clinched the US presidency, the legitimacy of his regime has been challenged from the onset. Rival Democratic Party, with the apparent help of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), immediately launched a campaign to delegitimize Trump. Even within his Republican Party, there seems to be mistrust on…
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