Ang Pilipinas / Ang Palestina

A Comparative Situationer
By Vegan XjoshX &
Cracka Jack
 Basic Conditions of Palestine
• Palestine is an OCCUPIED nation
• Israel is the occupier and client state of U.S.
• U.S. has vested interest in maintaining
military presence in region of middle east
• Foreign corporate entities take advantage of
U.S.-Israeli occupation
– Canadian and American corporations building
settlements in the West Bank
 Basic Conditions of the
Philippines
• The Philippines is governed by a puppet state
influenced by the United States
• Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo descedant of long line of
U.S. puppet regimes
• U.S. vested interest in maintaining presence in
Southeast Asia
• U.S. maintains military bases and conducts frequent
military exercises
• Corporate entities steal natural resources
 U.S. IMPERIALISM
• Military Bases
• Military Exercises
• Military / Economic Aid
 The “War on Terror”
• Counter-terrorism operations
– Oplan Bantay Laya
– Exaggerating threat of Abu Sayyaf
– Including legal movement and legitimate
struggles for national liberation under
banner of “terrorism”
– Harming civilians and non-combatants
 Semi-Feudal Exploitation
• “LAND IS LIFE”
• Peasantry often do not own land that
they till
• Usury and land grabbing wide spread
• Foreign corporations extract resources
for foreign capitalist benefit
– i.e. crops export, gold, oil etc.
 Cultural Hegemony
• White skin is the right skin
• Colgate = toothpaste
• “Ano ang ______ sa Ingles?”
• U.S. Movies, TV shows, Christmas
trees, snow, apples, George
Washington… WTF?!