Jul 6, 2020 | Articles
By Walden Bello* The Covid-19 pandemic has frozen much social and economic life throughout the world, but it has not stopped political polarization. In the US, there has been a welcome push-back from the left as millions of people throughout the country went to the...
Jul 6, 2020 | Articles
The US military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to use the military against people demanding racial justice has received a lot of good press. But let’s not overdo the praise. For most of their existence, the Armed Forces were racially...
Jun 7, 2020 | Articles
It was not authoritarian decrees from above but a strategy of persuasion built on a tradition of cooperation between public health authorities and civil society that made the difference. When the novel coronavirus began its swift spread from China in mid-January,...
Jun 7, 2020 | Articles
By Walden Bello, Doi Ra Lahkyen, Jenny Franco, Pietje Vervest and Tom Kramer* The Covid-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) that the government rolled out in the last week of April is a welcome initiative for a country that is suffering from both the assault of the novel...
Jun 7, 2020 | Articles
The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them? The morning will come When the world is mine. Tomorrow belongs to me! From Cabaret In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three...
