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Philippines’ Duterte's Vicious Attack on Critics

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Jan 18, 2018
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In his second State of the Nation address on July 24, 2017, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte departed from his prepared text to denounce a phenomenally successful – and critical – news website called Rappler, accusing it of being owned by American interests.

Denunciations by Duterte are ominous because they have a way of ending in action. Leila de Li…

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