Last September 16, hundreds of Filipino activists braved the heat and police lines in marching to the US Embassy in downtown Manila. The date is special: it marks the 25th anniversary of the Philippine Senate’s junking of an agreement that would have extended the 44-year stay of US military bases in Philippine soil.
Tag Archives: US foreign policy
| Leaked Clinton Email Admits Saudi, Qatari Government Funding of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria
By Bill Van Auken
An email exchange between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta, posted Monday by WikiLeaks, frankly acknowledges that the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is funded and supported by Washington’s chief allies in the Arab world.
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| The United States as Destroyer of Nations
In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 – an invasion which many Iraqis believe left their country in the worst condition it has been since the Mongol invasion of 1258 — there was much discussion in the media about the Bush Administration’s goal for “nation-building” in that country. Of course, if there ever were such a goal, it was quickly abandoned, and one hardly ever hears the term “nation-building” discussed as a U.S. foreign policy objective anymore.
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| Kerry: US Will Not Take FARC off Terror List or Release Guerrilla Leader
The top U.S. diplomat said a prisoner exchange involving Palmera is not being considered.
The fate of Ricardo Palmera, an imprisoned leader of Colombia’s FARC rebels known as Simon Trinidad, is not on the table as part of a peace agreement between the group and the Colombian government, U.S. Secretary of State JohnKerry said on Monday.
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| U.S. House of Representatives passes law on support for Ukraine, anti-Russian sanctions
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed unanimously the law entitled “Stability and Democracy for Ukraine Act,” which was earlier supported by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Ukrainian embassy in the United States has said.
“The document, sponsored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel and introduced by him together with Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, states that it is the policy of the United States to ensure that any relevant sanctions relief for the Russian Federation is contingent on timely, complete, and verifiable implementation of Minsk agreements,” a report posted on the embassy’s account on Facebook on Thursday morning said.
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| Pushing for an Independent Foreign Policy in the Philippines
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