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The 20th century was a terrible blight on small farmers everywhere. In both wealthy capitalist economies and in socialist countries, farmers paid…
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).
The recent US election was a redemptive election. At a time that many throughout the world had written off the American electorate…
While economists laud the recently deceased Milton Friedman for being “a champion of freedom whose work transformed economics and changed the world, 
“The world is investing too little,†according to one prominent economist. “The current situation has its roots in a series of crises…
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, regarded as the father of microcredit, comes at a time when microcredit…
The military coup in Thailand is the second high-profile collapse of a democracy in the developing world in the last seven years.…
Beirut – The bittersweet mood in Beirut on this day when the ceasefire took effect was perhaps best expressed by Rahul, a…
Washington, DC, April 24. The spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund took place this weekend with police barricades…
“An Army of the People†That something interesting and unusual is taking place in Venezuela first really struck me when, in response…