By Walden Bello* While economists laud the recently deceased Milton Friedman for being “a champion of freedom whose work transformed economics and changed the world,” as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times put it,...
Read Morepor Walden Bello* (Este artículo fue escrito para el Proyecto sobre China del Instituto Nautilus) Según un destacado economista “El mundo está invirtiendo muy poco”. “La situación actual tiene sus raíces...
Read MoreWilliam I. Robinson es profesor en el Departamento de Sociología de la Universidad de California, en Santa Bárbara, donde enseña y escribe sobre el capitalismo global, América Latina, el cambio social...
Read Morepor Alejandro Bendaña* ¿La izquierda perdió? No realmente. ¿En primer lugar uno se puede preguntar qué es la izquierda, qué significa ser izquierda en 2006,...
Read MoreAn Account of the Civil Society Launch of the “IMF – Shrink It or Sink It” campaign at the IMF/World Bank meetings – Singapore – September 17, 2006 By Soren Ambrose – Solidarity Africa Network...
Read MoreMarwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Nov 22 (IPS) – If the commentaries in East Asian newspapers on the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on the weekend are a reflection of the region's mood, then United States...
Read Morepor Walden Bello* La reciente elección en EE.UU. fue una elección redentora. En un momento en que numerosas personas en todo el mundo consideraban perdido al electorado estadounidense, como arcilla sin vida en las manos de...
Read MoreGlobal Labour Strategies* EXECUTIVE SUMMARY US-based corporations are opposing legislation to give Chinese workers new labor rights. US-based global corporations like Wal-Mart, Google, UPS, Microsoft, Nike, AT&T, and Intel,...
Read MoreWilliam I. Robinson is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches and writes on global capitalism, Latin America, social change, and democracy. His recent...
Read MoreAlejandro Bendaña* Did the left lose? Not quite. One might first ask what is the left, what does it mean to be left in 2006, what does it mean to be left in 2006 in Nicaragua, and is the victorious Sandinista National Liberation...
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by Walden Bello* The recent US election was a redemptive election. At a time that many...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* This article was written for the Nautilus Institute’s China Project. “The world [is] investing too little,” according to one prominent economist. “The current situation has its roots in a...
Read More5-9 MARCH 2007 IN ECUADOR [Para texto en español] On behalf of the International and Ecuadoran Organizing Committees for the Inaugural Conference of the Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, we...
Read MoreSeminar of the Social Movements Brussels 28 September – 1 October 2006 This summary is not meant to be a list of the opinions expressed nor a benchmark draught text. We have simply tried to give some order to the ideas put...
Read More[Español ] Walden Bello* [Published on Sunday, October 15, 2006, by The Nation. ] The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, regarded as the father of microcredit, comes at a time when microcredit has become...
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