Tag: enemy

‘Enemy within’: Trump rhetoric rings alarm bells

By Aurélia END WASHINGTON, June 4, 2024 (AFP) – The language sounds like something from an authoritarian state or the US anti-communist purges of the 1950s, but Donald Trump is increasingly focused on one target: “the enemy within.” The 77-year-old Republican has stepped up his rhetoric against a host of domestic opponents in recent months, and looks set to go even further after his historic conviction in a criminal trial that he claims — without […]

N. Korea to cut communication lines to ‘enemy’ South: KCNA

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea will cut military and political communication lines to “enemy” South Korea on Tuesday, state media said, after threats over activists sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the border. Pyongyang “will completely cut off and shut down the liaison line between the authorities of the North and the South, which has been maintained through the North-South joint liaison office,” as well as other communication links “from 12:00 on June 9, 2020,” […]

Sison: Duterte “number one enemy of his own state”

(Eagle News)–Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison on Monday, Aug. 28, alleged President Rodrigo Duterte was the “number one enemy of his own state,” accusing him of “deceptive and murderous methods of Oplan Tokhang in Oplan Kapayapaan,” among others. According to Sison, Duterte has “turned the police and military into his private criminal instruments” as they act “like death squads” who are “emboldened to fulfill their kill quotas because of presidential guarantees of impunity […]

President Duterte warns soldiers against leaving military camps without guns

“Ayaw kong ibrutalize ka,” he says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday warned soldiers against leaving their military camps without any weapons, noting they should not allow themselves to be “brutalized” by the enemy. “I will overrule that kind of regulation (regulation prohibiting government security forces from bringing guns outside their camps) because it is stupid,” he said in a speech during the turnover of around 3000 guns to the Armed Forces of the […]