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From Links: The International Journal of Socialist Renewal (May 30): Philippine Left facing a Duterte-CPP Coalition Government?, plus Duterte, a socio-political outcome On coming to power, newly elected Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte (left) originally...

By Dan Steinbock As President Duterte is rebalancing the Philippines’ economic and strategic policies, Washington is preparing plans for regime change. What the country needs is economic development, says Dan Steinbock – not Cold War. After the election...

Rodrigo Duterte, a right-wing populist whose politics have been compared in the media to Donald Trump won the presidential election held earlier this month in the Philippines, decisively beating Manuel "Mar" Roxas II, the anointed successor of outgoing...

While the U.S. set up the electoral system in the Philippines, the feudal/comprador classes manipulate it so that personalities, not ideology, and bribery determine the outcome. Democracy in the Philippines is actually the rule of the privileged minority...

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA, MERRIANE GRACE EREÑETA and PRINCE GOLEZ, Manila Reporter ILOILO City – In a show of force, the Liberal Party turned the Freedom Grandstand and the streets around it into a sea of supporters donning yellow shirts, waving yellow...