Philippine Politics

Manila - The name John McCain is no stranger to the Philippines, It was here where as a young man the senator's father served as commander at the former US Naval base at Subic Bay. McCain first tasted freedom from years as prisoner of war touching down at Clark Field on the Island of Luzon. With few exceptions; the American senator and his companions have probably one of the longest and strongest personal ties to the country. When McCain as well as Joe Liberman, as well as Sheldon Whitehouse...Read Full Story

Purported secret US Embassy files released by the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks showed that Washington had a direct hand in the ill-fated deal to create a Bangsamoro Juridical Entity in 2008 that critics warned could lead to a dismemberment of the Philippines. Former Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo said that this “disturbing pattern” of American intervention in the Philippines was apparently triggered by a letter sent by then Moro rebel chief Hashim Salamat to the US President George W...Read Full Story

The Philippine foreign minister on Wednesday slammed a former US ambassador as a "dismal failure" in an angry reaction to a secret cable published by anti-secrecy website Wikileaks. Albert del Rosario assailed Kristie Kenney , who stepped down as US ambassador to Manila last year, after she allegedly criticised the Philippines ' revered democracy heroine, the late president Corazon Aquino . "She (Kenney) was a dismal failure in helping the Filipinos defend our democracy. It would seem that...Read Full Story

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President Aquino Monday (July 4) said the territorial dispute over the Spratly Islands at West Philippines’ Sea (South China Sea) became complicated because the Arroyo administration included other countries in the exploration of the Philippines’ 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone. Aquino, during the 113th foundation day of the Department of Foreign Affairs, said the problem would not have been aggravated if the Declaration of the Code of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea was...Read Full Story