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As governments converge on Washington for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Spring Meeting (April 10-16), they are confronted with the daunting…
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).
“What went through my mind was this was my last hour on earth,” Leila de Lima told me as she recounted her…
Is the radical right pure hate and all emotion? Well, they may start from that, but humans that they are, some of…
Recent days have been very memorable when it comes to geopolitics. The Biden administration issued a National Security Strategy Memorandum that some…
Having tangled with fascists in the streets and studied them, progressive journalist Paul Mason, author of How to Stop Fascism, thinks he has…
September 21 is the day that dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines. For 49 years, it had been a…
On August 8, 2022, officers of the Philippine National Police (PNP) arrived at my residence at 62 Moncado Street, BF Homes, Quezon…
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War…
The failures of liberalism made illiberalism popular. But the inevitable crises of the Marcos-Duterte regime offer opportunities for progressive organizing
The Marcos-Duterte camp is currently gloating behind the façade of calls for “burying the hatchet”