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The Marcos-Duterte alliance, or what is now the circle of multiple political dynasties around the Marcos-Duterte axis, is a connivance of convenience among powerful families. Like most alliances of this type, which are built purely on the sharing of spoils, it will prove to be very unstable. More 1

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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org 4 and was authored by Walden Bello.

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