Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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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...
The Crisis of Multilateralism
Already buffeted by institutional crisis and policy conflicts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are...
The WSF as ?Moment?
Is the WSF still the most appropriate vehicle for the new stage in the struggle of the global justice and peace movement?...
Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood
An apocalyptic mood has seized the highest levels of global capital as the global financial system continues to implode....