Isiniwalat ni Bobi Tigalo ng Manila Times ang pagkakasangkot ng 3 media outfit sa destabilisasyon laban sa gobyerno.
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The Manila Times in a recent article titled, “CIA conduit funding anti-Duterte media outfits,” would elucidate US government money being channelled into the Philippines for the explicit purpose of manipulating public perception, particularly regarding politics.
The article cites the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and its grantees, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), and the Vera Files.
However, the articles stated outlines for fundings:
NED documents show that for 2015—the earliest year for which data is available—2016 and 2017, it gave the PCIJ $106,900; Vera Files $70,000, and CMFR, $278,000. (Another funder of Vera Files is Reporters without Borders, which is also recipient of NED funds.)
Even if NED wasn’t a CIA conduit, it is an institution funded by the US government, and therefore advances US interests. Shouldn’t we be outraged that the US government is funding anti-Duterte media outfits here?
It also points out that this US interference in Filipino politics fits into a much larger, the global pattern of political interference engaged by the US government. The article cites US interference in Ukraine in particular, noting that it was US backing that eventually led to the overthrow of the elected government there between 2013 and 2014.
The article’s author, Bobi Tiglao, attempted to contact several of the Filipino US NED grantees, only to be confronted or evaded, a response typical of US NED grantees worldwide when questioned about their foreign fundings, the dangerous conflicts of interests they are indulging the contradictions of posing as independent media organisations entirely dependent on foreign government fundings.
Pressure on the Philippines through US-funded media is only one of several fronts the US is using to transform, direct and determine the future of the Philippines as a nation. It has placed direct political pressure on Manila to cooperate in confronting Beijing over the South China Sea. It has also attempted to use Saudi-funded terrorism in the Philippines’ south as a vector to reintroduce a significant and expanding US military presence across the archipelago nation. The use of terrorism as both a pressure point against Southeast Asian states and as a pretext for a US military presence is a tactic of the US is attempting to reuse everywhere from Indonesia and Malaysia, to southern Thailand and neighbouring Myanmar. So, is the use of US NED-funded organisations operating under the guise of independent journalism or rights advocacy.
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