The Covid-19 pandemic and the opportunity for food sovereignty The Covid-19 pandemic has provoked widespread...
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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 WSF as ?Moment?
Is the WSF still the most appropriate vehicle for the new stage in the struggle of the global justice and peace...
Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood
An apocalyptic mood has seized the highest levels of global capital as the global financial system continues to...
Elites vs Greens in the Global South
The developing world’s stance toward the question of the environment has often been equated with the pugnacious...
‘Resign or go on leave’ — Akbayan nominee to Gonzalez
"This is just the latest of a series of shameless actions and pronouncements from an official who supposedly...
Nuts
He dismisses the violent reaction to his latest antic, saying, "There are many nuts in this country; more than...
Requiem for the EDSA State? (Part 2): Regime Change and the Political Economy of Development
Economic and social development is the crying need of the Philippines today, but it cannot take place without...
A Requiem for the EDSA System?
The history of the last 18 years has been a dreary one for most Filipinos. The promise of political liberation...
The Penitent?s Progress
The passage of the Anti-Terror Bill-now incongruously rebaptized the "Human Security Act of 2007"--...
Our Very Own Dirty War
In Argentina, during the “Dirty War” in the mid-seventies, the military used to load tortured university...