Mariana Mazzucato's The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy Mariana Mazzucato is a very...
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The Global South in the WTO
Time to move from the defensive to the offensive The Global South should take advantage of the severe crisis of the...
Why the son of a hated dictator won the Philippine elections
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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Revisiting and Reclaiming Deglobalization
Nearly 20 years after “deglobalization” was introduced as an alternative paradigm by Focus on the Global South, one of...
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...