There is a widespread perception, especially among East and Southeast Asian elites, that the United States is in a...
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‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste’
The Covid-19 pandemic and the opportunity for food sovereignty The Covid-19 pandemic has provoked widespread...
Reading Piketty I: A Concise and Comprehensive Summary of Capital and Ideology
In this summary, Walden Bello distills the key ideas and data contained in Thomas Piketty’s monumental work Capital...
The AFP as thought police
'A reign of terror is about to be imposed on the university by idiots whose main criterion for red-tagging you is that...
The United States Has Entered a Frightening Weimar Era
The violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists underlines the face of crises to come. originally posted...
A scandalous end to a scandal-filled year
'The only silver lining to this scandal is that the vaccine the VIPs received is apparently one made by a state-owned...
Why things will get much worse before they get better for the United States
originally posted on Rappler 'I hate to spell this out, but the current mood in the US approximates that of civil war,...
COVID-19, Distorted Development, and Degrowth
The following paper was presented at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute's Webinar "Sustainable...
The subversion of the Philippines’ Indigenous People’s Rights Act
The following paper was presented under the title The Philippines’ Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act of 1997: Challenges...
Why the Duterte regime could fall victim to COVID-19
People expected a message of hope from his State of the Nation Address, but the Philippine president instead...
The burning question is not if Duterte will go, but how
originally posted on Rappler 'Even Duterte’s usually aggressive DDS true believers and paid trolls are confused and...
The Far Right: Formidable but not Unbeatable
By Walden Bello* The Covid-19 pandemic has frozen much social and economic life throughout the world, but it has not...