On the 10th of February, popular American conservative talk show host, Michael Savage did a program about the drug problem and specifically about the vexed issue of drug legalization. Although often described as a typical arch-conservative, in reality, Savage is a genuinely independent thinker who frequently presents unique solutions to pressing problems.
In the early years of Erdogan’s rule, when many still fancifully thought that Turkey would join the EU, there was a versatile refrain from European apologists for Erdogan’s dictatorial ways that went like this:
–He may be a strong man, but the economy is growing.
–I don’t personally agree with his cracking down on press freedoms but real wages have risen under Erdogan.
–He is a danger to constitutionality but he has a broad base of support.
–Yes, he is a kind of political Islamist but he speaks for his supporters.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has taken censorship to an x-rated level.
As western neo-liberal “democracies” are foaming at the mouth to censor news outlets that do not agree with the liberal religious ideology, Duterte is taking action against sites that are, in his view, being used by “pedophiles.”
According to Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar…
–“these porn sites should really be banned because they are being used by pedophiles and other people who subscribe to child pornography sites.”
The current visit is part of a week long goodwill trip, during which the navies of both countries are expected to discuss and share tactics to help combat terrorism and piracy in the region as well as discuss plans regarding joint military exercises in the future.
This is only the third time a contingent of the Russian Navy has visited the Philippines, and the first since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office last June.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, a man the West tends to mock or underestimate, has just delivered on yet another of his promises: further cooperation and extended relations with Russia.
Two Russian ships, the anti-submarine destroyer Admiral Tributs and the sea tanker Boris Butoma, have sailed into Manila harbour on a goodwill visit.
The move is a sign of extended friendship between the two countries and could well be the beginning of ever closer relations.
As Obama accuses Russia of tampering in US elections, the US is accused of the same.
Exclusive: Filipino President Duterte oversaw a brutal anti-drug campaign but is now seeking peace with leftist revolutionaries and rejecting U.S. pressure for more counterinsurgency warfare, writes Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn In April 2016, Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidential…Read more →
Wall Street and the Pentagon greeted the onset of 2016 as a ‘banner year’, a glorious turning point in the quest for malleable regimes willing to sell-off the most lucrative economic resources, to sign off on onerous new debt to Wall Street and to grant use of their strategic military bases to the Pentagon.
Brazil and Argentina, the most powerful and richest countries in South America and the Philippines, Washington’s most strategic military platform in Southeast Asia, were the objects of intense US political operations in the run-up to 2016.
