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The United States, along with 14 other high-tech countries, established Pax Silica in December 2025 as a āstrategic initiativeā to counter Chinaās…
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has strongly criticized the Marcos Jr. administration and the US on plans to construct…
The initiator and mastermind behind this inspiring success is Mayor Rommel C. Arnado. The successful businessman proved to be a great visionary…
Rasti Delizo is a global affairs analyst, veteran Filipino socialist activist and former vice-president of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP, Solidarity…
Despite seven decades of climate denialism, funded primarily by the worldās largest energy giants in the United States and, to a lesser…
As typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi, internationally) left over 200 Filipinos dead while affecting nearly 2 million people, President Marcos Jr declared āa state…
(This is the first in a series of articles on the DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration) Framework and how it is being…
Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global SouthBy: Walden BelloClarity Press, 2025 Walden Bello has long been one…
FFPS PRESS RELEASE: August 18, 2025 Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle (FFPS) hosted a global webinar to expose to an…
Alex de Jong reviews the Filipino activist-scholar Walden Belloās new memoir, Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love.…
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