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Obama’s move to close down the prisons at Guantanamo Bay is promising. For a while, the United States’ assertion on China’s record on human rights, especially during episodes when trade issues arise between the two countries, has been a complete joke. Nevertheless, there indeed is a quandary as to what to do with those remained […]

Republican vs. Democrat

Is a Democrat regime better, than a Republican one, for the Philippines?
Before the United States 2008 election, specifically on 2 November 2008, Philippine Star columnist William Esposo wrote an article entitled “Why Filipino-Americans should vote for Obama.” The article appeared to imply that the imperialist stance of the United States emanated from a Republican regime.
I […]

July 4, Philippine-American Friendship Day

Historical premise
At the conclusion of the Spanish-American war, “[t]he city of Manila was surrendered to the United States on 13 August 1898, and the military commander was directed to hold the city, bay, and harbor, pending the conclusion of a peace which should determine the control, disposition, and government of the Islands.”1 Subsequently, and similarly […]

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