The American Hijacking Of The Philippines' "People-Power" Struggle http://www.swans.com/library/art17/barker79.html 

In previous articles, I have examined conflicting narratives regarding the role fulfilled by US-based "democracy-promoting" elites during the 1980s in hijacking the powerful peoples movement in the Philippines. Within the course of this work, I demonstrated how several scholars, who unfortunately are quite influential in progressive circles, have glossed over the central function that the US government's "democracy-promoting" apparatus -- most notably the antidemocratic activities of the terribly misnamed National Endowment for Democracy -- have played in undermining radical activism in the Philippines.