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...
Economic crisis shakes old paradigms
The world will soon enter the 6th Year of the Great Recession, and there is no end in sight. In the United States,...
Healing Syria’s Gushing Wound
(This article was co-authored with Richard Javad Heydarian.*) Almost 18 months after the onset of popular-democratic...
An island of growth in a stagnant sea
The economic news on the Philippines the last few weeks has been good. The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...
We don’t need $100,000, Mr. Thomas; we need action on greenhouse gas emissions
This July was the hottest July in the United States ever since they started keeping records. In India, the monsoon...
Philippine-style democracy on trial
In the coming week, two critical bills will move to center stage at the House of Representatives: the Freedom of...
Will the Burma Road End in Democracy?
Most visitors to Myanmar these days, when the country is opening up, limit their trips to Yangon, better known in...
Another bright idea we cannot afford
(This article was co-written by Sabrina Gacad) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Washington-based Clean...
Why are Philippine funds being used to bail out irresponsible European banks?
The Philippine government’s decision to extend a $1 billion loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to...
Now Comes the Hard Part…
Successful revolutions are rare; successful reform is even rarer, claims Samuel Huntington in his classic “Political...