(Militarism, Sexism, WTO, Arroyo, RETREAT) Today, March 8, the International Day of Women, we march, together with our sisters across the globe, to celebrate the lessons, the triumphs as well as the challenges of our...
Read MoreAl Jazeera Special on Carbon Trading 101 EAST: Cash for Carbon Imagine a way to save tropical rainforests without having to reduce greenhouse gases. Imagine a way to make environmental conservation profitable. Some claim carbon...
Read MoreWalden Bello* at Inquirer.net REPRESENTATIVE Edcel Lagman of Albay has a term for legislative measures that gain approval in a congressional committee yet never make it to a full floor debate owing to one reason or other. He...
Read Moreby Akbayan! Representative Walden Bello Like Hamlet, Shakespeare’s conflicted Prince of Denmark, China was caught between conflicting currents in Copenhagen. Its failure to manage these led to its biggest diplomatic...
Read Moreby Akbayan! Representative Walden Bello ON JAN. 1, 2010, the China-Asean Free Trade Area (Cafta) went into effect. Touted as the world’s biggest Free Trade Area, CAFTA is billed as having 1.7 million consumers, with a combined...
Read MoreIndia International Centre, New Delhi 10th – 12th January, 2010 The discussions in the India-Pakistan Conference: A Road map towards Peace over the last three days have shown how far the public sentiment in both India and...
Read More10th – 12th January, 2010 Dear Friends, Greetings! A number of organizations and eminent people in India have got together to organise an ‘India-Pakistan Conference: A Road Map towards Peace’ at the India...
Read MoreBy Ma. Ceres P. Doyo posted on inquirer.net “All our fears have come true,” said Akbayan party-list Rep. Walden Bello, reacting to the launch of the world’s biggest free trade area comprising China and the Association of...
Read MoreBy Javad Heydarian* The Mirage of Stability Political Stability is a scarce commodity in the troubled region of Middle East; henceforth, the ultimate priority of Mubarak’s government has essentially remained the same over the...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* At 8 am, on Wednesday, Dec 29, I took my seat in a bus in downtown Cairo that was about to head for Gaza. The evening before, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, the central organization in the Gaza Freedom...
Read MoreDecember 26, 2009 Dear President Mubarak, We, representing 1,362 individuals from 43 countries arriving in Cairo to participate in the Gaza Freedom March, are pleading to the Egyptians and your reputation for hospitality....
Read MorePaul de Clerck from the NGO Friends of the Earth International, Dorothy Guerrero from NGO Focus on the Global South and Canadian author Naomi Klein annouce the winner of the Angry Mermaid award, given to the company which has...
Read Moreby Shalmali Guttal 11 Dec 2009 The 7th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ended as it started: on a subdued and uncertain note. Statements about the importance of a speedy conclusion to the Doha...
Read MoreThe head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat has said a leaked text which appears to undermine the existing Kyoto Protocol and on-going UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen is out of date and is unlikely to...
Read More(From International Socialist Review, November-December 2009 (No. 68)) Walden Bello is a longtime global justice activist, professor of sociology, president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, and senior analyst at Focus on the...
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