Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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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...
Philippine-style democracy on trial
In the coming week, two critical bills will move to center stage at the House of Representatives: the Freedom of...
Will the Burma Road End in Democracy?
Most visitors to Myanmar these days, when the country is opening up, limit their trips to Yangon, better known in better...
Another bright idea we cannot afford
(This article was co-written by Sabrina Gacad) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Washington-based Clean Technology...
Why are Philippine funds being used to bail out irresponsible European banks?
The Philippine government’s decision to extend a $1 billion loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to supplement the...
Now Comes the Hard Part…
Successful revolutions are rare; successful reform is even rarer, claims Samuel Huntington in his classic “Political Order...