COVID-19 Impacts on Women’s Economy, Women’s Rights and Livelihood in Thailand
In 2020, Thailand was the first country in the world to detect COVID-19 transmission outside...
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Category: Opinion/Analysis
India’s Child-care Workers Fight for Recognition and Just Wages
Thousands of anganwadi (child-care) workers and helpers are on strike across multiple states in...
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Grey Economy and Sickly Recovery: Informal Women Workers in Pandemic-Ravaged Philippines
Last month, on January 27, the Duterte administration’s economic managers released a joint...
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No Recovery Without Justice
As the Philippines entered the second year of the pandemic, the Duterte administration geared up...
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Rebuilding a Democratic Public Economy is a Feminist Issue
The COVID-19 pandemic manifested in a world racked with accelerating climate change, recurring...
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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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Duterte-Dominguez Duo Accelerates Neoliberal Transformation of The Philippine Economy
by Walden Bello* The Duterte administration has the distinction of having passed the most...
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#Duterte and the Damage Done: Human Rights Crisis
#Duterte and the Damage Done Focus on the Global South has been examining the yearly State of the...
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The Rice Trade Liberalization Law signed by Duterte in February 2019 was strongly opposed by farmers. Photo by Joseph Purugganan. March 2019
Philippine Agriculture is Dying—What Will It Take to Save it?
By Walden Bello* There are various adjectives that people use to describe Philippine agriculture...
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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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