Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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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...
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...
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 Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism
The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them? The...
The “New Cold War” between the United States and China
As the "New Cold War" between the United States and China threatens to escalate to an unpredictable outcome, two recent...
Why the Covid 19 Crisis Tells Us that Food Sovereignty is an Idea Whose Time has Come
The global food system has been very much front and center in the Covid 19 story. Every one, of course, is aware that...