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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, and it may just be a matter of time before one side, the Trump forces, translates that mood into something more threatening, more ugly' I’m one of...

COVID-19, Distorted Development, and Degrowth

The following paper was presented at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute's Webinar "Sustainable Social and Economic Recovery after COVID-19" on September 17, 2020. What I’d like to do is focus on some economic vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19 and...

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 to Realizing the Full Potential of a Progressive Law at a discussion on the crafting of a law to advance the rights of indigenous people in Thailand,...

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 self-destructed against the background of a public health disaster, a collapsing economy, and a generational rebellion. In his fifth State of the Nation (SONA)...

A Siamese Tragedy

The military coup in Thailand is the second high-profile collapse of a democracy in the developing world in the last...

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