[Analysis] Deconstructing a dismaying outcome
by Walden Bello ‘One would not be surprised if, after a year, the Marcoses and...
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Author: Walden Bello
KHARKIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 18: A man surveys damage after a Russian artillery strike struck a residential building on April 18, 2022 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. After Russian forces retreated from areas around Kyiv, recent reports point to a new offensive as Russian forces are regrouping in the eastern part of the country bringing fears of an escalation of violence. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
An Interview with Walden Bello: China Could Be the Big Winner of the War in Ukraine
Interview by Ben Wray The Ukraine war is a geopolitical crisis with truly global...
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Nation-building: The march of an illusion from the Philippines to Afghanistan
originally posted on wsimag.com In one of his interviews before the Taliban walkover, John Bolton,...
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How to Lose a War: Focus on the Global South and the American Misadventure in Afghanistan, 2001-2021
by Walden Bello From the very beginning, in 2001, we in Focus on the Global South opposed the...
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The three revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party
The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation.
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Osama Bin Laden’s ghost and the multi-trilion-dollar cost of endless war
Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation.
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Why Biden might not be able to extricate the US from its Middle East quagmire
Biden has promised an end to the endless wars. But such promises are not easy to keep. by Walden...
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China, US must both stop destabilization
by Walden Bello originally posted on the Inquirer China’s seizure of maritime formations that are...
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The West Has Been Hoarding More Than Vaccines
by Walden Bello MANILA — I’ve had my first Covid-19 vaccine jab, drawn from the limited supply of...
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A pile of grain in Karnataka, India. Photo: Pixy / Creative Commons
Corporate-Controlled Global Food Supply Chains Must Go
The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of...
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COVID-19, Distorted Development, and Degrowth
The following paper was presented at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research...
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Indigenous and spiritual leaders of Timuay Justice and Governance offer a ritual in Maguindanao on the occasion of their Indigenous Political Structure's founding anniversary on October 3, 2017. Photo: Galileo de Guzman Castillo
The subversion of the Philippines’ Indigenous People’s Rights Act
The following paper was presented under the title The Philippines’ Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act...
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Why the Duterte regime could fall victim to COVID-19
By Walden Bello People expected a message of hope from his State of the Nation Address, but the...
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The burning question is not if Duterte will go, but how
by Walden Bello originally posted on Rappler ‘Even Duterte’s usually aggressive DDS true...
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The Racial and Genocidal Underpinnings of the American Way of War
by Walden Bello* The US military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to...
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