Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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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...
October 1965: The shadow on Indonesia’s new democracy
There are parts of Jakarta that look almost lovely in the evening. As we drive along glitzy Thamrin Boulevard to my hotel,...
The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention
Events in Libya and Syria have again brought to the forefront the question of armed humanitarian intervention or the...
The Food Wars
Violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices from 2006 to 2008, highlighted an intrinsic...