Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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Mikhail Gorbachev: the final leader of the Soviet Union
Naïve idealist, epic bungler, or tragic hero Mikhail Gorbachev once shared the global spotlight with Ronald Reagan. His...
Where does value come from?
Mariana Mazzucato's The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy Mariana Mazzucato is a very gifted...
Review of Underground Asia by Tim Harper
The tinderbox that was colonial Asia flared up in the period 1905 to 1927, with fires being ignited in different places,...
The Global South in the WTO
Time to move from the defensive to the offensive The Global South should take advantage of the severe crisis of the...
Why the son of a hated dictator won the Philippine elections
The fallout from the results As a progressive activist, I’m dismayed at the election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. by a...
Osama and Trump
Two bookends to the downspin of an empire The end of 2021 and the beginning of a new year is a convenient time to take...