Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology is a wide-ranging exploration of the origins, maintenance, and persistence of...
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Central front of the new Cold War
How US and China stack up on the strategic front in the Asia-Pacific region During the Trump administration, there...
Interview with Oksana Boyko on Russia Today (RT)
Interview with Oksana Boyko on Russia Today (RT)Revenge of revanche? Walden Bello, international adjunct professor at...
Capitalism’s Last Stand?: Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity
In this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's...
Global poverty down, Philippine poverty remains high
That the poverty situation in the Philippines has not improved has been the cause of much concern lately. According...
The Hashimoto Controversy and Japan’s Failure to Come to Terms with its Past
The words were so brazen that they have created a firestorm globally. This was the comment of Mayor Toru Hashimoto of...
Wrong Choice, Again?
The conclave to elect the new Pope was an opportunity for the Catholic Church’s all-male college of cardinals to...
I’ll miss Hugo
I’ll miss Hugo. When I first was introduced to him in Porto Alegre in 2003, he greeted me, “Mi padre,” and said he...
Agrarian reform and the urban illusion
There can be no doubt that the administration of President Benigno Aquino III has made significant strides in terms of...
Women’s rights: Turning point in India, triumph in Manila
Women’s rights have been in the forefront of international concern over the last few weeks. Up in arms against rape...
Why the Philippines cannot afford to be “Like-Minded” in Doha
(This article was co-authored by Richard Javad Heydarian.) Seldom has a global conference been so devoid of positive...
Confronting the Continuing Power Crisis
Power rates in the Philippines are the highest in Asia and rank fifth in the world. Brownouts lasting several hours a...