By Walden Bello* BEIRUT, August 13, 2006: The wounds of war were evident shortly after we crossed the Syria-Lebanon border at 1130 in the morning on August 12. At Haissa, about three kilometers from the Dabboussiyeh border...
Read MoreResponding to calls by Lebanese civil society organizations to come to their war-ravaged country, another batch of parliamentarians and civil society representatives from various countries are going on an international peace and...
Read MoreTime to Abandon Doha and Move towards peoples' alternatives The Doha negotiations have been suspended indefinitely. But while Member countries took note of and accepted the suspension as an inevitable course given the...
Read MoreActivists calls on the Philippine Government to reflect on alternatives to the WTO JULY 28,2006 GENEVA – A day after the formal announcement of the suspension of the Doha Negotiations was made at the General...
Read MoreGreen Left Weekly, August 9, 2006. Steve O’Brien, Durban Organisers are expecting 100,000 people to attend the Nairobi World Social Forum next January in Kenya. While some smaller regional meetings have been held, this...
Read MoreThe international civil society and social movements are raising their voice and mobilizing throughout the world not only to express their indefectible solidarity with the Lebanese people, but also to build a huge international...
Read MoreEl Fondo Monetario Internacional se encuentra quizá en su estado más vulnerable en muchos años. Está atravesando una triple crisis -una crisis de legitimidad, una crisis presupuestaria y una crisis...
Read MorePeasants and Fishers lead the calls for alternatives to the WTO July 29, 2006 GENEVA – Activists from social movements and NGOs responded to the news of the suspension of the Doha with jubilant protests and actions...
Read MoreGustavo Capdevila GENEVA, Aug 2 (IPS) – Civil society activists, who early on foretold the inevitable collapse of the Doha Round, are now predicting the beginning of the end for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) itself,...
Read MoreWalden Bello | July 28, 2006 Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Several guilty parties were responsible for the recent collapse of the Doha round of trade negotiations, but none guiltier than the United States. U.S....
Read MoreMarwaan Macan-Markar, BANGKOK, Jul 31 (IPS) BANGKOK, Jul 31 (IPS) – It was inevitable: Singapore had to bare the police state soul that lurks behind its modern steel-and-glass buildings and elegant shopping emporia. And...
Read MoreVUE Weekly – Edmonton,Alberta,Canada Scott Harris / [email protected] “The collapse of the Doha Round is good for the poor,” said Walden Bello, executive director of the Thailand-based organization Focus on...
Read MoreWorld Socialist Web Site – Oak Park,MI,USA By Peter Symonds,28 July 2006 In an article entitled “Taming the ‘Banana Republic: The United States in East Timor”, Ben Moxham, a research associate with Focus...
Read MoreIndian Catholic – New Delhi,India, July 28,2006 Vasha Berry from the India chapter of "Focus of the Global South" said the "call to wear white is in memory of the people who lost their lives in last...
Read MoreNewzimbabwe.com 07/29/2006 By Kuthula Matshazi Walden Bello, the executive director of Focus on the Global South and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines said that developed countries want maximum entry...
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