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...
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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...
Nation-building
The march of an illusion from the Philippines to Afghanistan In one of his interviews before the Taliban walkover,...
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...
Why things will get much worse before they get better for the United States
originally posted on Rappler 'I hate to spell this out, but the current mood in the US approximates that of civil war,...
The Bretton Woods Twins in the Era of COVID-19: Time for an Exit Strategy for the Global South?
As they mark their 76th year, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been presented with a grand...
COVID-19, Distorted Development, and Degrowth
The following paper was presented at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute's Webinar "Sustainable...
The subversion of the Philippines’ Indigenous People’s Rights Act
The following paper was presented under the title The Philippines’ Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act of 1997: Challenges...
Why the Duterte regime could fall victim to COVID-19
People expected a message of hope from his State of the Nation Address, but the Philippine president instead...
The burning question is not if Duterte will go, but how
originally posted on Rappler 'Even Duterte’s usually aggressive DDS true believers and paid trolls are confused and...
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...