Publications Articles

How Did I “Predict” that Trump, Despite His Repulsive Persona and Politics, Would Prevail?

Democratic Party leadership has been discredited and there's room for new progressive leaders to take the helm. By Walden Bello | November 7, 2024 Nearly a month before the November 5 elections, I anticipated that Donald Trump would win and wrote about it in a couple...
Read More

Unjust wars and a just peace

Unraveling the complex threads of war, peace, and global civil society Wars can have many and diverse causes, but it is when local conflicts are intertwined with geopolitics and geoeconomics that they become especially dangerous and destabilizing. Volatile...
Read More

Global civil society amid S. Africa’s Israel genocide claim

The International Court of Justice’s verdict Israel is its own worst enemy. The more it kills, the more it destroys whatever is left of its legitimacy as a state, the further away peace and security are from its grasp. The genocide that is happening in Gaza is not...
Read More

America’s repossession of the Philippines

As the US dramatically expands its military presence, colonialist history is repeating itself When the news broke in early February that Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had struck a deal to allow the United States to dramatically expand its military presence...
Read More

Leila de Lima

Aug 12, 2021 |

Filipino political prisoner refuses to surrender to despotic Duterte Philippine Senator Leila de Lima is one of the...

read more