Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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The Prague Castle Debate
I would like, first of all, to thank President Havel for staging this debate today, and President Robinson for chairing it....
The Global Crisis of Legitimacy of Liberal Democracy
The first is the crisis of overextension, or the growing gap between imperial reach and imperial grasp, the most striking...
Iraq, the U.S., and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement
These year's massive protests are in the tradition of the global protests against the war of Feb. 15, 2003 and March...
Academics, Power, and the Crisis of the University
More recently, the influence of academia on politicians and policymakers has been most evident in the massive impact of...
Desperate Martians Now Wooing Venusians
The reality is that the old game of domination and occupation continues, and the US is not winning. The triumphalism that...
Big Pharma: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution
Many people, however, increasingly have questions about one key group: the pharmaceutical companies or, as it is...