An interview with Walden Bello by the Transnational InstituteThis interview is part of a series in the run-up to the Asia-Europe Peoples’ Forum [1] examining the economic and social state of Europe and Asia and the...
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By Walden Bello* Speech delivered at the Conference for a Just Peace for Palestine, New Delhi,...
Read MoreFocus on Trade usually relies on the written word for analysis, but one of our readers, Professor Bill Carroll (University of Victoria, Canada) this week released his second political music video, titled, “So Said Tony Hayward”....
Read MoreIsrael’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May 2010, in light of its deadly siege on Gaza, was an urgent call to the international community to force Israel to comply with her obligations under international law. Israel’s...
Read MoreBy Raj Patel*It has been a summer of record temperatures – Japan had its hottest summer on record.[1] Same with South Florida and New York.[2] Meanwhile, Pakistan and Niger are flooded, and the Eastern US is mopping up after...
Read MoreThe causes of peripheral country indebtedness: EMU membership and private sector deficits1. The turmoil in the Eurozone is due to the global crisis of financialisation that broke out in 2007. But it is also due to the biased...
Read MoreNew Delhi: After the contentious passing of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 by the Rajya Sabha on 30 August, a coalition of organizations and concerned individuals have issued a statement provoking fundamental...
Read More31 August 2010The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 has been passed by both Houses of the Parliament and now only awaits assent by the President of India. This will operationalise the India-USA civilian nuclear...
Read Moreby Walden Bello My apologies to T. S. Eliot, but September, not April, is the cruelest month. Before 9/11/2001, there was 9/11/1973, when Gen. Pinochet toppled the Allende government in Chile and ushered in a 17-year reign of...
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Focus on the Global South together with the Foundation for Ecological Recovery/TERRA, World...
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We, the undersigned international organisations and civil society networks, would like to express...
Read Moreby Walden Bello*The dominant feature of the Arroyo administration was pervasive corruption, but its most destructive legacy in the long term will probably be its policy failures. The ascent to power of a new president,...
Read MoreJuly 19, 2010The quest for justice involving wrongdoings of leaders of this country has oftentimes been frowned upon as attempt to seek revenge—to be ‘after one’s blood’ as the misguided phrase goes. Filipinos would rather...
Read MoreIt is in response to the growing clamor for alternatives to the current system of global governance that Focus has elaborated the strategy of deglobalisation as the guiding paradigm for its programmatic work in the next...
Read Moreby Walden BelloAthens. Cafes are full in Athens, and droves of tourists still visit the Parthenon and go island-hopping in the fabled Aegean. But beneath the summery surface, there is confusion, anger, and despair as this...
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