Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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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 to...
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...
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...