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Duterte, Recipient of Trump Praise, Threatens to Shoot Human Rights Activists

Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte gestures during a campaign rally on April 23, 2016 in Manila, Philippines.

Trump Embraces Duterte as Endless US War Expands in Philippines

Jake Johnson, staff writer

The report came as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Manila meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who bragged to a state news agency that the U.S. and Australia have "considerably toned down" their criticism of his human rights record.

News that the Trump administration is gearing up to expand the global war on terror into its eighth country, the Philippines, arrived on Monday shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was pictured smiling and glad-handing with President Rodrigo Duterte, the nation's controversial leader who has been condemned as a serial human rights...

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Trump Praised Duterte's Drug War, Told Him of Nuclear Subs, in Phone Call

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

President Donald Trump told Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte that he was "...

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Warnings Abound as Trump Wheels and Deals with Despots

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

First daughter and assistant to the president Ivanka Trump on an advertisement for a new $150 million, 57-story Trump luxury residential tower in Manila, Philippines. (Photo: Getty)

Human rights experts are up in arms over President Donald Trump's embrace of...

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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte

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Amid Climate-Fueled Food Crisis, Filipino Forces Open Fire on Starving Farmers

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'Reckless, Dangerous, Irresponsible': US Warship Provokes in South China Sea

US and Philippines Face People's Tribunal for Torture, Disappearances, Murder

Threat of 'Inevitable' War Looms Between US and China Over Pacific Island Row

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Greenpeace

Philippines Prepares to Summon 47 Companies to Account for Climate Change

Communications Workers of America

CWA Uncovers Massive VZ Offshoring Operation in Philippines

BAYAN USA Northeast

Rice Not Bullets! Filipino Community and Allies Protest Massacre of Drought-Stricken Mindanao Farmers at the Philippine Consulate

350.org

Hunger Pangs of Starving Farmers Met by a Barrage of Bullets

Forest Peoples Programme

Human Rights Groups Call for Palm Oil Moratorium in Palawan, Philippines: End Land Grabs and Forest Destruction Now!

International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines

Amidst US-China Dispute in South China Sea, DC Tribunal Tackles US Drone Ops, Violations to Philippine Sovereignty

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