Bayan-Negros: America is the most powerful terrorist state

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga

Members of various militant groups in Negros Occidental staged a protest yesterday afternoon against US President Donald Trump, who was recently in the country attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Metro Manila.

Michael Dela Concepcion of the Negros chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) said Trump’s visit was intended to enhance America’s war on terror, claiming the president will build more US military bases in the Philippines.

Concepcion accused the US president of being the “number one interventionist and imperialist in the world today.”

He went on to say, “Imperialism has exported individualistic, consumerist culture that commodifies women, insults minorities, and extols the profane and decadent.”

The demonstrators also said Americans have plundered nations, exported war on a daily basis, and killed millions in the name of “democracy and free trade.”

“America is the biggest and most powerful terrorist state in the world,” Concepcion said.

He also criticized the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the US and Philippine government, saying they did not prove beneficial to the country.

Concepcion called on others to join them in pressuring the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte to pursue an independent foreign policy away from the US./DGB, WDJ