Statement from Focus on the Global South, May 17, 2010 The steps taken by the Thai Government in the past week, especially after the failure of the five-steps reconciliation proposal to gain acceptance by the United Front for...
Read MoreSuppression of dissent and resultant violence cannot resolve conflicts : the Thai Government and UDD must urgently return to the negotiating table Statement from Focus on the Global South, May 17, 2010 The steps taken by...
Read Moreby Walden Bello* from INQUIRER.netThe 2010 campaign has drawn to a close, and it’s time to distill my experiences after registering hundreds of miles by land, sea, and air crisscrossing the country as a party-list candidate.On...
Read MoreThe blossoming of Sino-Iranian partnership: how an emboldened South is beginning to expose the limits of American power by Javad HeydarianIt is undeniable that the year 2009 was a momentous year for People’s Republic of China,...
Read MoreBy Akbayan! Representative Walden Bello from Inquirer.net Is Congress worth running for? As someone that comes from civil society, I am often asked this question. I do not blame people for being so cynical. After a year in the...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* From Common Dreams, April 23, 2010 The issue of corruption is a very resonant one in developing countries. In the Philippines, for instance, the slogan of the coalition that is likely to win the 2010...
Read MoreSay NO to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank
DECLARATION of the III International Water Fair toward the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (held April 15-18, 2010 in Cochabamba) Climate change is the result of an extractive,...
Read MoreDear friends and comrades, After more than 3 years, the inhabitants of Gaza, 1.5 million people, are living under a criminal siege implemented by Israel and supported by the international community at large. More than a...
Read MoreThe violent clashes between the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (Red Shirts) protesters and the Thai government’s law enforcement forces on Saturday, April 10, 2010, that resulted in the deaths of 5 soldiers and...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello in New Internationalist, March 2010, Issue 430Over the last two years the international financial crisis has deepened into a crisis of the real economy. With the collapse of demand in the US and other markets in...
Read MoreKathmandu, 27 March 2010
Around 50 representatives belonging to the Solidarity for Asian Peoples’ Advocacies (SAPA) call on greater interaction and solidarity among regional groups to address common concerns. In a public forum on “The Asian Challenge: Forging Solidarity, Building Alternatives” on March 26 in the Everest Hotel, SAPA members discussed the multiple crises experienced in Asia – in the economy; in the environment and the climate; and in peace, democracy, human rights and self-determination.
Read Moreby Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello From Philippine Daily Inquirer INQUIRER.net After nine years of witnessing increasing poverty among the masses and spiraling corruption in high places, it is understandable that Filipinos see a...
Read MoreOn the evening of March 10, just two days after a successful celebration of the international women's day in the streets of Cotabato City in Mindanao, the office of the Mindanao Tri-People Women Resource Center (MTWRC) was...
Read Moreby Jacques-chai Chomthongdi* The key weapons used by Thaksin’s opponents to destroy him are corruption and disloyalty; other issues seem irrelevant in comparison to these. The disloyalty charge lost steam because of the...
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