Author (Category): Walden Bello

The Far Right: Formidable but not Unbeatable

Posted by Walden Bello | Jul 6, 2020 | COVID-19 Updates, Deglobalisation, Power and Democracy

By Walden Bello* The Covid-19 pandemic has frozen much social and economic life throughout the...

Why Al-Qaeda Won

Posted by admin | Sep 22, 2011 | Deglobalisation, Power and Democracy

By Walden Bello (originally published in Foreign Policy in Focus)With the tenth anniversary of the crime that was 9/11, the question inevitably crops up: who won, the United States or al-Qaeda? According to the politically...

Sexual Prey in the Saudi Jungle

Posted by admin | Jan 26, 2011 | Deglobalisation, Philippines, Power and Democracy

By Walden Bello*He was an officer in the Saudi Royal Navy assigned to the strategic Saudi base of Jubail in the Persian Gulf. She was a single mom from Mindanao, in the Philippines, who saw, like so many...