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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 collapse of the Fifth Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Cancun, Mexico, last Sunday, Sept. 14, was an event…
(Prepared for the McPlanet Conference, Berlin, June 27, 2002. The original version of this piece will appear in the Fall issue of…
The unraveling of the reputations of firms that were once the toast of Wall Street continues and the end is not in…
The political reality of Venezuela hits me as soon as I arrive, like a blast of Caribbean air at midday. A friendly…
I think that the best way to begin is to repeat what Fr. Cirilo Nacorda said two days ago in Lamitan, Basilan,…
Porto Alegre is not exactly a Third World city. Located in one of Brazil’s more prosperous states, Rio Grande do Sul, and…
Walden Bello* Porto Alegre, Brazil "Hemingway said that the rich are different from you and me. How can anyone expect the people…
Walden Bello* The last year will probably go down as one of those defining moments in the history of the world economy,…
Walden Bello During the heated debate on whether or not to raise the US quota in the IMF in 1998, the US…