Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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Obama’s victory: How it happened and what it means
Washington, DC, Nov 7, 2012–The polls had pointed to a very close election, and those of us who gathered around a...
Stuck with Obama
As many pundits have noted, if the rest of the world were voting in the US elections, the third presidential debate would...
Economic crisis shakes old paradigms
The world will soon enter the 6th Year of the Great Recession, and there is no end in sight. In the United States,...
Healing Syria’s Gushing Wound
(This article was co-authored with Richard Javad Heydarian.*) Almost 18 months after the onset of popular-democratic...
An island of growth in a stagnant sea
The economic news on the Philippines the last few weeks has been good. The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth...
We don’t need $100,000, Mr. Thomas; we need action on greenhouse gas emissions
This July was the hottest July in the United States ever since they started keeping records. In India, the monsoon rains...