Category: Power and Democracy
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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Student protestors occupy Sanam Luang, beside Bangkok's Grand Palace, on 19 September 2020. Photo: Jacob Goldberg
The political education of Thailand’s dissident youth
Thailand’s anti-government, anti-monarchy protests may have been triggered by recent abuses, but...
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Lao national and 2005 Magsaysay Award recipient Sombath Somphone stands beside a poster of fellow awardee V. Shanta during a press conference in Manila, Philippines on Monday 29 August 2005. Photo: EPA/ROLEX DELA PENA
Civil society demand Laos government reveal Sombath’s fate
Laos: After eight years, civil society worldwide demands the government establish and reveal...
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Thai police use water cannons to disperse pro-democracy demonstrations in Bangkok on 16 October 2020. Photo: Sirikan Charoensiri
Thai government must end crackdowns on pro-democracy activists
Focus on the Global South calls on the Thai government to release all detained activists and lift...
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Thousands protested against Martial Law in Pepe Diokno Freedom Park, Quezon City, on September 21, 2020. Photo: PhilRights
Collective struggle, collective strength
By Galileo de Guzman Castillo, Joseph Purugganan, and Bianca Martinez As we commemorate today the...
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EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan. CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2019 – Source: EP
Open Letter to EU Trade Commissioner on Philippines GSP+ Withdrawal
Note: This open letter was addressed to then-EU Trade Commissioner Paul Hogan on 1 September 2020....
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Protesters demand democratic reforms at Bangkok's Democracy Monument on August 16, 2020.
To dream the impossible dream: Youth-led uprisings in Thailand
By Supatsak Pobsuk “Down with dictatorship, long live democracy.” – Protest chant On August 16,...
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President Donald J. Trump makes a stop at a pizza shop in Old Forge, PA, on August 20, 2020. Photo: White House
Is the United States a failing state?
By Richard Falk To ask whether the United States, the world’s dominant military power, is ‘a...
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