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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 stopped political polarization.  In the US, there has been a welcome push-back from the left as millions of people throughout the country went to the...
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The Racial and Genocidal Underpinnings of the American Way of War

The US military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to use the military against people demanding racial justice has received a lot of good press.  But let’s not overdo the praise.  For most of their existence, the Armed Forces were racially...
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How Thailand Contained Covid-19: Why a Public Health System with Popular Support Matters

It was not authoritarian decrees from above but a strategy of persuasion built on a tradition of cooperation between public health authorities and civil society that made the difference. When the novel coronavirus began its swift spread from China in mid-January,...
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How to Improve Myanmar’s Covid-19 Emergency Relief Program

By Walden Bello, Doi Ra Lahkyen, Jenny Franco, Pietje Vervest and Tom Kramer* The Covid-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) that the government rolled out in the last week of April is a welcome initiative for a country that is suffering from both the assault of the novel...
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The Price of Empire

Jan 25, 2021 |

U.S. elites are not victims of China and Germany’s export-oriented policies. They are engaged in the complex balancing...