UNPACKING RCEP: What Governments are Not Saying about the Mega FTA*
By Joseph Purugganan INTRODUCTION Let me also begin by thanking Radhika Desai, and the...
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Category: Opinion/Analysis
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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Representatives of farmer unions leave Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi after a meeting with Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on 5 December 2020. Photo: Kamal Singh/PTI
Long march to peasant unity
The unprecedented unity among peasant organisations is not a sudden development. It has been built...
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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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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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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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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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Thousands of individuals from various groups join #SONAgkaisa while ensuring physical distancing to express dismay over the Duterte administration at University Avenue, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City on 5th State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte.Photo by: Arrem Alcaraz, Kodao — with Wacphilippines Cavite.
THE MORIBUND DUTERTE PRESIDENCY
Focus on the Global South’s Post-SONA 2020 Assessment 2020 August 7 In the middle of the COVID-19...
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Armoured Dove of Peace. Graffiti art by Banksy; photo by Pawel Ryszawa. Retrieved from English Wikipedia (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banksy_-_Peace_Dove_-_2008-03_-_close-up.jpg), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
Kalinaw sa Mindanao: Just and Lasting Peace in the Land of Promise
By Galileo de Guzman Castillo Halina’t ating pag-usapan ang kapayapaan (Come,...
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