Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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Valedictory Speech
Mr. Speaker, dear colleagues: I stand before you today to give some parting words on the occasion of my resigning from this...
Capitalism’s Last Stand?: Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity
In this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's...
Global poverty down, Philippine poverty remains high
That the poverty situation in the Philippines has not improved has been the cause of much concern lately. According to the...
The Hashimoto Controversy and Japan’s Failure to Come to Terms with its Past
The words were so brazen that they have created a firestorm globally. This was the comment of Mayor Toru Hashimoto of...
Wrong Choice, Again?
The conclave to elect the new Pope was an opportunity for the Catholic Church’s all-male college of cardinals to choose...
I’ll miss Hugo
I’ll miss Hugo. When I first was introduced to him in Porto Alegre in 2003, he greeted me, “Mi padre,” and said he learned...