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This chapter describes the ruses conditioning US intervention in 1898 including the psychological manipulation of revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo, allowing Commodore George Dewey to offer plausible deniability before Congress regarding any promise of assistance and paving the way for the prearranged mock Battle of Manila Bay. Notes from San Juan describe the leaders of the Philippine Revolution, e.g., Jose Rizal and Andres Bonifacio, as being organic to their sociopolitical conditions, inspired by humane and liberal ideas of the Enlightenment, challenging the European colonial powers’ exploitative interpretation of the same. San Juan further retrieves the Filipinos from the image of indolence used to justify continued colonial rule by Spain, then rendered moribund by the emergent global political economy boosted by the opening of the Suez Canal that signified a triumph of the “cash-nexus” warranted by the expansion of trade and commerce and the circulation of capital.
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Bauzon, K.E. (2019). Denials and Betrayals, Conquest and Capitulation. In: Capitalism, The American Empire, and Neoliberal Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9080-8_4
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