Issue: 678

December 08, 2016

Guest Commentary

Guerilla Incursions from the Boondocks: President Duterte’s Logomachia and Subaltern Counter-Hegemony in the Philippines

By Dr. E San Juan, Jr., PhD Guest Commentator

What the next US president would surely do to restore its ascendancy in that region is undermine Duterte’s popular base, fund a strategy of destabilization via divide-and-rule (as in Chile, Yugoslavia, Ukraine), and incite its volatile pro-American constituency to beat pots and kettles in the streets of MetroManila.

“A howling wilderness” was what General Jacob Smith ordered his troops to make of Samar, Philippines. He was taking revenge for the ambush of fifty-four soldiers…

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Commentary

The Haitian Revolution

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Far too many African people are unfamiliar with the significance of Haiti, the Haitian Revolution, and its impact on the world. Far too much misinformation is being spread about Haiti and its history.

Much has been said about Haiti and its historical context. In order to understand the history of Haiti and the importance of the Haitian Revolution when…

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