Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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Interview with Dale Wen: “China Needs an Ecologized Social Democratic System”
Dale Wen's short book China Copes with Globalization: a Mixed Review [PDF], published by the International Forum on...
The World Social Forum at the Crossroads
A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was reached with the inauguration of the World Social Forum...
Eye of the Hurricane: Milton Friedman and the Global South
While economists laud the recently deceased Milton Friedman for being “a champion of freedom whose work transformed...
Americans Want a New Direction, but will Democrats Lead?
The recent US election was a redemptive election. At a time that many throughout the world had written off the American...
Microcredit, Macro Problems
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, regarded as the father of microcredit, comes at a time when...
A Siamese Tragedy
The military coup in Thailand is the second high-profile collapse of a democracy in the developing world in the last seven...