Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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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...
Richard Falk’s passage to “positive public notoriety”
The life of a citizen pilgrim Richard Falk is universally regarded as one of the top minds when it comes to international...
Nation-building
The march of an illusion from the Philippines to Afghanistan In one of his interviews before the Taliban walkover, John...
Leila de Lima
Filipino political prisoner refuses to surrender to despotic Duterte Philippine Senator Leila de Lima is one of the world’s...
Why Biden might not be able to extricate the US from its Middle East quagmire
Biden has promised an end to the endless wars. But such promises are not easy to keep. Read the article here
Osama Bin Laden’s Ghost and the Multi-Trilion-Dollar Cost of Endless War
Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has...