The fallout from the results As a progressive activist, I’m dismayed at the election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. by a...
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Osama and Trump
Two bookends to the downspin of an empire The end of 2021 and the beginning of a new year is a convenient time to take...
Richard Falk’s passage to “positive public notoriety”
The life of a citizen pilgrim Richard Falk is universally regarded as one of the top minds when it comes to...
The Price of Empire
U.S. elites are not victims of China and Germany’s export-oriented policies. They are engaged in the complex balancing...
Trump and the Asia-Pacific: The Persistence of American Unilateralism
There is a widespread perception, especially among East and Southeast Asian elites, that the United States is in a...
‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste’
The Covid-19 pandemic and the opportunity for food sovereignty The Covid-19 pandemic has provoked widespread...
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 face of things to come
The storming of Capitol shows America has entered the Weimar Era By mid-February 2021, American deaths from Covid-19...
The United States Has Entered a Frightening Weimar Era
The violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists underlines the face of crises to come. originally posted...
A scandalous end to a scandal-filled year
'The only silver lining to this scandal is that the vaccine the VIPs received is apparently one made by a state-owned...
The Far Right: Formidable but Not Unbeatable
The level of discontent and alienation with neoliberalism was already very high in the Global North before the...