Food wars
Walden Bello and Mara Bavieraoriginally posted on Monthly ReviewIn 2006–08, food shortages became a global reality, with the prices of commodities spiraling beyond the reach of vast numbers of people. International...
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Watch live : Conference regional integration and crisis!
International Conference of Governments and Social Movements “Regional Integration: an opportunity to face the crises” DATES: 21 and 22 July 2009 VENUE: PRODEPA, Sala 1, Consejo Nacional del Deporte, Asunción del Paraguay TIME:...
Read MoreRobert McNamara’s second Vietnam
by Walden Bello* The stylized view of Robert McNamara, who passed away a few days ago, is that after serving as the chief engineer of the disastrous US war in Vietnam, he went on, in 1968, to serve as president of the World...
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A man for this season? Keynes
by Walden Bello*
originally posted on the Business Mirror
THE collapse of neoliberal economics, with its worship of the “self-regulating market,” has had among its most significant consequences the revival of the great English economist John Maynard Keynes.It is not only his writings that make Keynes very contemporary.There is also the mood that permeates them, one that evokes the loss of faith in the old and the yearning for something that is yet to be born.
Aside from their prescience, his reflections on the condition of Europe after the First World War resonate with our current mix of disillusion and hope: In our present confusion of aims, is there enough clear-sighted public spirit left to preserve the balanced and complicated organization by which we live? Communism is discredited by events; socialism, in its old-fashioned interpretation, no longer interests the world; capitalism has lost its self-confidence. Unless men are united by a common aim or moved by objective principles, each one’s hand will be against the rest and the unregulated pursuit of individual advantage may soon destroy the whole.
Read MoreThe global food price crisis
by Walden Bello Originally posted by Women in Action and Pambazuka News Perhaps the most influential orthodox view on the causes, dynamics, and solution to the food price crisis was provided by Oxford University economist Paul...
Read MoreRegional integration : a new opportunity to face the crises
International Conference of Governments and Social Movements Introduction The core partners in the Regionalisms Programme organised a well-attended Regionalisms Workshop in Belem, which was framed in the context of the Global...
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Politics failed our constitution
by Jenina Joy Chavez, Julie delos Reyes, Herbert Docena, Aya Fabros, Mary Lou Malig, Mary Ann Manahan, Cathy Ordona, Qiqo Punzalan Simbol, Joseph Purugganan, Lourdes Torres and Walden Bello/ Focus on the Global South Philippines...
Read MoreAfterthoughts : CARPER : latest chapter in agri reform battle
By Walden Bello originally posted on Inquirer.net When I joined the House of Representatives a few weeks ago, I did not expect to be immediately thrust into heated debates on what have probably been the two most controversial...
Read MoreOUTRAGED OVER CON-ASS
For Immediate Release STOP Cha Cha Secretariat: Leah Navarro +63-917-898-1957 We are outraged! We protest and decry the brazen move by the majority faction of the House of Representatives, notwithstanding some...
Read MoreCountry Level Thematic Reports
The EU-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Campaign initiated in 2007 a research project that would examine the nature and scope of the EU-ASEAN Relations including the impact of the proposed EU-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA)....
Read MoreWill China Save the World from Depression?
By Walden Bello* This article appeared originally in Foreign Policy in Focus, May 19, 2009 Will China be the “growth pole” that will snatch the world from the jaws of depression?...
Read MoreOn quarantining the speaker and other members of the Las Vegas expedition –
On Quarantining the Speaker and other Members of the Las Vegas Expedition and other Measures to Deal with Swine Flu by Representative Walden Bello Privileged Speech, May 5, 2009 Philippine House of Representative I rise on a...
Read MoreTemple sparks border tensions
May 06. 2009 Jared Ferrie, Foreign Correspondent The National (United Arab Emirates) REAH VIHEAR, CAMBODIA — About 120,000 tourists used to walk over each year from Thailand to explore the ruins of this 11th-century Hindu...
Read MoreA manifesto of the new party-list representatives supporting CARPER
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 For over a year now, we have witnessed the struggle of the farmers and agrarian reform advocates in pushing for the enactment of the CARP Extension with Reforms (CARPER) in Congress. We have shared their joy...
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