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Dr. E San Juan, Jr., PhD

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Dr. E. San Juan, Jr, PhD, is an emeritus professor of Ethnic Studies and Comparative Literature University of Connecticut, was a fellow of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, Fulbright lecturer of American Studies at Leuven University, Belgium, is currently professorial lecturer, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila. His most recent books are: U.S. Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines and Between Empire and Insurgency: The Philippines in the New Millennium. Contact Dr. San Juan and BC. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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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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