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Tag: VFA

Information drive

"The PCOO should just do its job."   In my past columns, I have urged the Duterte administration to embark on a massive education and information...

Impulsive diplomacy

"Will rational thinking get us out of this diplomatic mess, or will irrational, impulsive, personal whims prevail and seriously damage our national security interests?" The cancelling...

Threat or bluff?

When his ever-loyal friend, defender and enforcer Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa lost his right to enter the United States with the cancellation of...

Trapped in their own con game

"It never crossed the minds of the US negotiators that we would elect a much smarter president"   It seems the US has finally been trapped...

Travel ban sign of protest vs. US meddling – Duterte

President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States and to ban his Cabinet members from going there were...

Senate committee to review VFA, other pacts

The Senate foreign relations committee, chaired by Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel, will start Thursday next week its review of the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement...

Ignore Cuisia’s warning

"The President is well within his powers to seek the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement."   As expected, former Philippine Ambassador to Washington Jose “Joey”...

Who’s trivializing what?

"These people are consistently inconsistent."     Look who’s criticizing President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement now? No other than the most righteous of...

Philippines-China joint military drills eyed

The Philippine government is considering the possibility of conducting joint military drills with China. In a briefing in Malacañang, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon said,...

Scaffolding US imperial interest

The Visiting Forces Agreement is the only agreement of its kind where the host country is more concerned in wanting to please a visiting...

Rody won’t scrap VFA, other pacts

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Militants seek review of court’s Edca ruling

The Supreme Court has been asked to re-examine its decision last month upholding the legality of Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement forged by the government...

Deliberately misinterpreting the Constitution 

When the Supreme Court voted to affirm the constitutionality of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, the justices decided the case from a political rather...
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