Category: Peace and Security
Bin Laden and Trump: Two Bookends to America’s Imperial Decline
What we can learn from the 20 years between the 9/11 attacks and the January 6 coup attempt. By...
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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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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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Asian Generation Z’s Voice for Peace and Justice
Galileo de Guzman Castillo’s concluding remarks at the International Peace Bureau’s...
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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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KASAMAS FOR LOVE, FOR PEACE. Heiwa koshin desu! (We are the Peace March!). Kiyosu Castle, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. 2019 June 10. Photo by Hideki “Run” Yokoe.
Peace and Courage in the Time of COVID-19
Solidarity Message from the Global South to the 2020 Japan Peace March[i] By Galileo de Guzman...
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Message from a Filipino Peace Activist from the Global South during the 2019 Japan Peace March International Youth Relay
We publish this final blog post by our colleague Galileo De Guzman Castillo on his participation...
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NOTES FROM THE FIELD #10: Of No Goodbyes But See You Soons
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 11 and 12, 2019 Fuso and Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture and Kakamigahara,...
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WELL, LET’S TRY IT. Sate, sate, sate! (さて / Now… / So… / Well…) Ajima Midori-san, a cultural worker and artist for peace, in one of her theatrical performances.
NOTES FROM THE FIELD #9: Of Rainbows and New Days
Sunday and Monday, June 9 and 10, 2019. Nagoya, Kiyosu, and Kitanagoya, Aichi Prefecture Text and...
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An airplane takes off at the Nagoya Airfield. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) shares the runway as a part of Japan Air Self-Defense Force Komaki Base (航空自衛隊小牧基地 Kōkū Jiei-tai Komaki Kichi).
NOTES FROM THE FIELD #8: Of Strange and Icky Feelings
Friday and Saturday, June 7 and 8, 2019.Tsushima, Aisai, Inazawa, Komaki, and Kasugai, Aichi...
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OUR LESSON FOR TODAY IS… Written on the blackboard: We want kapayapaan! / heiwa / ピース [peace written in katakana]
NOTES FROM THE FIELD #7: Of Language and Singing Lessons
Wednesday and Thursday, June 5 and 6, 2019/Seto, Moriyama, Ichinomiya, and Konan, Aichi Prefecture...
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