Category: Power and Democracy
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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Meet the Filipino Socialists Challenging Rodrigo Duterte’s Right-Wing Rule
by Walden Bello Six years ago, I made the only recorded resignation on a question of...
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Trade Justice Pilipinas to PH Government: Act on Human Rights Concerns, Don’t Attack the Messengers
Last February 17, 2022, the 705-member European Parliament adopted with a vote of 627 votes in...
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EU: Time to Act on Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
Asia-Europe Peoples Forum (AEPF) Statement on the European Parliament’s Urgent Resolution on the...
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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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Book Launch: “Silencing of a Laotian Son – the Life, Work and Enforced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone”
On Tuesday, 14 December 2021, a book launch and discussion of “Silencing of a Laotian...
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Laos: Nine years on, civil society worldwide still demands answers on Sombath’s enforced disappearance
(15 December 2021) On the ninth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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Mula sa Guho, Saan Tayo Patungo? : Challenges and Ways Forward to Recover from Dutertismo
In our interview with Walden Bello, we assessed the damage inflicted by the Duterte administration on the Philippines over the past 5 years, and discussed opportunities to move forward and recover from ‘Dutertismo’.
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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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