“As an executive agreement, it is now within the power of President Duterte to terminate the agreement.”
Progressives turn to Duterte to revoke Edca
Tags: EDCA
Youth groups urge Duterte to junk Edca
“President Duterte, you have been a staunch advocate of freedom from foreign intervention. You have been a vocal critic of US meddling in our affairs. We ask you to stand by your statements. Edca is the ultimate agreement that gives them political power inside our country thus, it must be scrapped at all cost.”
Happening now in their ‘agreed locations’
By RENAN ORTIZ
Reds to target US military bases in PH
“The US aims to firm up its military foothold in the country, which serves as a base for forward deployment of military forces in line with its hegemonic ‘Asia pivot’ to secure for itself the trade routes, sources of cheap labor and areas for investments in the Asia-Pacific countries.”
Youth groups remember historic Mindanao battles in call to junk Edca
One of the agreed US military base locations is near the site of the historic battle where Filipino revolutionaries defeated American troops in the Philippine-American War.
‘Aquino goes down in history as prexy who brought back US bases’
“Up until the last moments of his term, Aquino continues to allow the wanton surrender of our sovereignty and territorial integrity to a foreign oppressor.”
Salungguhit | Dragged into the war
Edca protesters invoke ‘Heneral Luna’
“After 114 years since the war ended, the US continues to violate our sovereignty and human rights with impunity.”
Chilling effect
Maybe
Positioning the Philippines for eventual war?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Two months ago, as the Supreme Court deliberated on the two petitions urging it to declare the Phl-US Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement unconstitutional, I wrote about former US Senator Mike Gravel’s warning, via his petition-in-intervention filed through Filipino lawyers, that the EDCA could lead…