Category: DIREK HIT
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Labanan Ang Pakana Ng Amerika Na Gawing Ukraine Ang Pilipinas
Ni Mauro Gia Samonte Taliwas sa popular na pagkaalam, ang giyera sa Ukraine ay di nagsimula noong Pebrero 24, 2023 kundi noon pang 2014 nang muling ipaloob ang Crimea sa dati nitong kalagayan sa Pederasyon ng Russia. Ibinunyag ito ni Lt. Gen. James Bierman, commanding general US armed forces’ Third Marine Expeditionary Force (IIIMEF),…
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Hindi Maaaring Ipirma ng Presidente Ang Kapahamakan ng Buong Sambayanan
Ni Mauro Gia Samonte Sigaw ni Bongbong, “Hey, ya, sabi ng mamamayan mo, ‘fucking faggot,’ wag mong ipagyabang yang pagwasak mo sa Ukraine. Minsan nang ginawa ‘yan ni MacArthur sa Pilipinas noong 1945, kaya kong gawin uli ngayon ‘yan. Di mo ba nakikita? Inaprubahan ko na ang dagdag na base militar ng…
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What the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council achieved
By Mauro Gia Samonte WHILE the alleged violations of the human rights of the Uyghur Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, China happened more than a year ago, it came to the fore once more when the United States raised it in the recently concluded 51st UN Human Rights Council session which took place from September 12 to…
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Bongbong beyond rhetoric
By Mauro Gia Samonte For a time, I’ve confined myself to writing just one column a week, on Saturdays, in conformity with changes in editorial direction by The Manila Times. This time however, I begged to be allowed this one more piece this week (on top of the one that appeared yesterday, Saturday: “The Joker in…
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The US Pacific Pivot That Just Went PFFT!
By Mauro Gia Samonte Part 3 Conclusion It is obvious that the American Pacific Century strategy as elaborated by former United States State Secretary Hillary Clinton is a concept on the plane of peace. By this is meant outside of any consideration of war as contraposed to what the United States was…
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The US Pacific Pivot That Just Went PFFT!
By Mauro Gia Samonte Part 2 To be sure, it was typically American that the side-lining of the Middle East as a fulcrum for its world hegemony was accomplished. They do it every time. In World War II, they abandoned the Philippines to the mercy of the Japanese invaders in order to win…
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The US Pacific Pivot That Just Went PFFT!
By Mauro Gia Samonte Part 1 “The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action.” Thus did in October 2011 then United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton kick off cocksure her classic article, America’s Pacific…
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The Challenge to Bongbong on PH-China Relations: Call A Spade A Spade
By Mauro Gia Samonte “Critical engagement with China would be the way to go. And President Marcos already knows that this response is being enhanced at all levels… Dalawa lang naman ang alternatibo mo, eh. You continue to talk or you go to war. I’m sure the other alternative, hindi natin option yun. You continue…