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Recent developments in US-Philippine relations should evoke concern among citizens of the Philippines and their representatives in Congress. Washington’s two-point agenda…
Walden Bello
Walden Bello is currently the International Adjunct Professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Co-Chairperson of the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South. He is the author or co-author of 25 books, including Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (Nova Scotia: Fernwood, 2019), Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (London: Bloomsbury/Zed, 2019), Food Wars (London: Verso, 2009) and Capitalism’s Last Stand? (London: Zed, 2013).
Ever since the beginning of the current global economic crisis, the focus of both critical analysis and public odium has been speculative…
Germany towers over Europe like a colossus. Its economy is the biggest in the European Union, accounting for 20 percent of the…
The world’s population surpassed 7 billion on October 31. But except for perhaps the anti-family planning lobby, this was a milestone that…
With the tenth anniversary of the crime that was 9/11, the question inevitably crops up: who won, the United States or al-Qaeda?…
Events in Libya and Syria have again brought to the forefront the question of armed humanitarian intervention or the “responsibility to protect.”…
"China is today the ideal capitalist state: freedom for capital, with the state doing the 'dirty job' of controlling the workers," writes…
Osama bin Laden is no martyr. He is certainly no Che Guevara, whose fate at the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency…
The Arab democratic uprisings have brought a rush of nostalgia to many people who staged their own democratic revolutions years earlier. As…
Walden Bello is the author of "Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy" and "Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American…