Duterte Harry
Duterte Harry

Author: Jonathan Miller

Publisher: Scribe Publications

Published: 2018-05-28

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1925548775

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The first biography of Rodrigo Duterte, the murderous, unpredictable president of the Philippines, whose war on drugs has seen thousands of people killed in cold blood. Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens — all with his encouragement. Duterte is a serial womaniser and a self-confessed killer, who has called both Barack Obama and Pope Francis ‘sons of whores’. He is on record as saying he does not ‘give a shit’ about human rights. Yet he is beloved of the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him, seen as vulgar but honest, a breath of fresh air, and an iconoclastic, anti-imperialist rebel. In this revelatory biography, Channel 4 News’ Asia Correspondent Jonathan Miller charts Duterte’s rise, and shows how this fascinating, fearsome man can be seen as the embodiment of populism in our time.

A Duterte Reader
A Duterte Reader

Author: Nicole Curato

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1501724746

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A critical analysis of one of the most media-savvy authoritarian rulers of our time, this collection of essays offers an overview of Duterte’s rise to power and actions of his early presidency. With contributions from leading experts on the society and history of the Phillipines, The Duterte Reader is necessary reading for anyone needing to contextualize and understand the history and social forces that have shaped contemporary Philippine politics.

The Rise of Duterte
The Rise of Duterte

Author: Richard Javad Heydarian

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9811059187

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This book draws on the extensive literature on populism, democracy, and emerging markets as well as interviews with senior government officials, experts, and journalists in the Philippines and beyond, This book is the first to analyze the significance and implications of the rise of Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte within a rapidly-changing Asia Pacific region. As China's power in the Pacific grows rapidly, nations that have traditionally been US allies, such as the Phillipines, are experiencing political convulsions; Duterte's open willingness to realign towards China (at the expense of America) in exchange for infrastructure investment is one of the clearest indicators of what China's rise might look like for nations around the world. Timely, precise, accessible and fast-paced, this book will be of value to scholars, journalists, policy-makers, and China watchers.

President Rodrigo Duterte and the War on Drugs
President Rodrigo Duterte and the War on Drugs

Author: William N. Holden

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781793604408

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Since his election in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has directed a brutal anti-drug campaign. William N. Holden examines the motives and organizational methods of the campaign by analyzing it through conceptual frameworks of penal populism, noble cause corruption, revanchism, and state terrorism.

The Realm of the Punisher
The Realm of the Punisher

Author: Tom Sykes

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Published: 2019-07-18

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1909930822

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In June 2016, Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidential election by a landslide. Infamous for his bombastic temper and un-PC wisecracks, he is waging a brutal drug war that has killed more than 12,000 people so far. Over the last nine years, British writer Tom Sykes has travelled extensively in the Philippines in order to understand the Duterte phenomenon, interviewing friends and enemies of 'The Punisher' - as he is known - in politics, the media, the arts and civil society. Sykes witnesses anti-government demonstrations in the capital Manila and visits the provincial city of Davao, where Duterte began his crusade against crime using police and vigilante death squads. By delving into Duterte's troubled childhood of violent rebellion, Sykes discovers what motivates the man today in his pursuit of a merciless 'war on the poor' - as Amnesty has described it - that has no end in sight. The Realm of the Punisher also examines oppressed and marginalized groups in the modern Philippines through encounters with a transgender rights campaigner, an 86-year-old former sex slave to the Japanese in the Second World War, a public artist who must work while under attack from Maoist rebels, and slum-dwellers resisting violent eviction by a real estate company. The past is never far away from these present-day problems and Sykes' travels to festivals, cemeteries, war memorials and a tomb housing an embalmed corpse reveal the ways in which key figures in Philippine history - from José Rizal to Ferdinand Marcos - have influenced current affairs. Funny, tragic, enlightening and uncompromising - and infused with the author's strong sense of social justice - The Realm of the Punisher is the first major travel book by a Westerner to explore Duterte's Philippines.

The Filipino State and Other Essays
The Filipino State and Other Essays

Author: Guillermo Gomez Rivera

Publisher:

Published: 2018-12

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781732781511

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The Filipino State and Other Essays is a compendium of historical facts about the Filipino nation and people as never told before. Guillermo Gómez Rivera reveals for the first time the truth about the birth of the Philippines which is being deliberately omitted by history books taught in Philippine schools. Find out why there is an ongoing cultural genocide with regard to the Filipino language.

The Sovereign Trickster
The Sovereign Trickster

Author: Vicente L. Rafael

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1478022418

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In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extrajudicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism. He is less concerned with defining Duterte as a fascist, populist, warlord, and traditional politician than he is with examining what Duterte does: how he rules, the rhetoric of his humor, his use of obscenity to stoke fear, and his projection of masculinity and misogyny. Locating Duterte's rise within the context of counterinsurgency, neoliberalism, and the history of electoral violence, while drawing on Foucault’s biopower and Mbembe’s necropolitics, Rafael outlines how Duterte weaponizes death to control life. By diagnosing the symptoms of the authoritarian imaginary as it circulates in the Philippines, Rafael provides a complex account of Duterte’s regime and the social conditions that allow him to enjoy continued support.

The Legacy of President Rodrigo Duterte and the Philippine Government - A Study of Human Rights Abuses, Poverty, Gender Inequality and Violation of Child Rights in the Republic of the Philippines
The Legacy of President Rodrigo Duterte and the Philippine Government - A Study of Human Rights Abuses, Poverty, Gender Inequality and Violation of Child Rights in the Republic of the Philippines

Author: Dr. Mark O'Doherty

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 0359502296

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Dear All, Even to this day, humanity has not advanced beyond petty and primitive national conflicts; succumbing to despotic leaders who use xenophobia, nationalism, propaganda and power politics to manipulate and indoctrinate the people of their respective countries. This not only applies to countries such as Russia and Iran; but also to the UK, EU and US - who deprive honest and decent folks of basic necessities, such as a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG), if they do not fall in line with the economic and political establishment. However, my colleagues in the International Community are certainly right about one thing: That the war between Russia and Ukraine must end - to stop further loss of innocent life, and restore Basic Human Rights in the International Community. Putin's illegal war on Ukraine has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides - which is unacceptable and must end. The UN General Assembly passed a justified resolution condemning the invasion and demanding a full withdrawal of Russian forces. Pope Francis has also denounced the wake of death and destruction caused by Putin's illegal war on Ukraine, describing the war as a crime against God and humanity. He said attacks on civilian infrastructure were causing deaths not only from gunfire and acts of violence but also from hunger and freezing cold. "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and humanity which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation." Furthermore, the International Criminal Court has issued an ICC arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin; which the Kremlin should comply with, by arresting Mr Putin. It should also be noted that the borders of both Ukraine and Russia have been internationally recognized and defined in 1991 - with Russia's President Boris Yeltsin recognizing Ukraine's independence. Hence Russia should honour this agreement. We encourage all Russian troops to return home to their loved ones in Russia - so that Peace can be manifested, and we can all live happy and fulfilling lives. Love and Light / благослови господь россию / God Bless President of Российская Федерация, the UK, the US, China and European Union Президент Российской Федерации / POTUS / The Crown / EU-China Mark, BTB-Global Peacebuilding PS: The News Reporter Evan Gershkovich has been arrested by the FSB on false and bogus charges of espionage. Hence he should be released immediately.

Divining Duterte
Divining Duterte

Author: Edilberto C. de Jesus

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9789814954747

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First published as opinion pieces, the essays in Divining Duterte provide contemporaneous commentaries on the context, course and consequences of the policies Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte pursued after his 2016 election. Duterte became the first president in seventy years to come from Mindanao and the first to vault from a city mayor's office to Malacañang Palace. Exploiting the potential of social media, Duterte was an Asian example of the elected "populist strongman," like Brazil's Bolsonaro, Hungary's Orbal, and Russia's Putin. His policies challenged the commitment to established political values assumed unassailable: human rights and the rule of law; separation of powers; and the preference to ally with the United States and other nations that shared its democratic liberal values rather than with authoritarian regimes. Despite these policies and problems coping with the pandemic, public opinion polls rewarded him with high approval ratings. Restricted to a single presidential term, he will inevitably exert an influence on the 2022 elections. Duterte's 2016 underdog victory rewrote the rules for presidential politics.

Moral Politics in the Philippines
Moral Politics in the Philippines

Author: Wataru Kusaka

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9814722383

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“The people” famously ousted Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines in 1986. After democratization, though, a fault line appeared that split the people into citizens and the masses. The former were members of the middle class who engaged in civic action against the restored elite-dominated democracy, and viewed themselves as moral citizens in contrast with the masses, who were poor, engaged in illicit activities and backed flawed leaders. The masses supported emerging populist counter-elites who promised to combat inequality, and saw themselves as morally upright in contrast to the arrogant and oppressive actions of the wealthy in arrogating resources to themselves. In 2001, the middle class toppled the populist president Joseph Estrada through an extra-constitutional movement that the masses denounced as illegitimate. Fearing a populist uprising, the middle class supported action against informal settlements and street vendors, and violent clashes erupted between state forces and the poor. Although solidarity of the people re-emerged in opposition to the corrupt presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and propelled Benigno Aquino III to victory in 2010, inequality and elite rule continue to bedevil Philippine society. Each group considers the other as a threat to democracy, and the prevailing moral antagonism makes it difficult to overcome structural causes of inequality.