By Cathy Cruz Filipinos are being conditioned to accept that war is imminent and that we have to take a side. From EDCA to the security deal with Australia, Japan and the US, war drums are being beaten in fever pitch. We are being told that we cannot stay out of a possible US-China superpower […]

On Tuesday, March 14, 2023 I received a TikTok post of an SMNI video clip of the network’s latest Harry Roque interview where the former Duterte spokesperson said that the U.S. EDCA Bases in the Philippines will serve as magnets for China’s retaliation or pre-emptive strikes at any moment that the U.S. makes a move […]

​Former President Rodrigo R. Duterte finally uttered his first words on the burning U.S. EDCA military bases in the Philippines issue on his TV show with Apollo Quiboloy on the SMNI channel. The country had been waiting for the former president to break his polite silence on the issues that had already divided the Marcos […]

The NPR (National Public Radio) is a quasi-autonomous, government-funded nonprofit media outlet created by the U.S. federal government. On February 16, 2023 its headline blared “’Biden says the 3 aerial objects shot down were not Chinese spy balloons’… President Biden will soon speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the surveillance balloon the U.S. military […]

Reuters Fact Check on February 4, 2023 headlined on its news side the very important and clarificatory news, “Fact Check – HBAL617 balloon tracker online is from U.S. company Aerostar, not China” which shoots down the sensationalized false story of U.S. mainstream media that it was a Chinese “spy balloon”. Despite this Reuters fact check […]