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Bello: Beirut 2004
Znet Article, September, 23 2004
Walden Bello
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We are assembled here in Beirut at a critical moment. It is a moment marked by crosscurrents: In Iraq, the US gets deeper and deeper into a Vietnam-style quagmire, with the number of American soldiers killed since the March 20, 2003 invasion passi...
Bello: Empire and Resistance Today
Znet Article, June, 25 2004
Walden Bello
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Over the last year, I have been preoccupied, as so many of us have, with one thing, Iraq. Iraq, as Bob Woodward puts it in his book Plan of Attack, has "sucked all the oxygen out of the system." It is the central event of our time, our Spanis...
Bello: The Economics of Empire
Znet Article, January, 04 2004
Walden Bello
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In 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) was born. The nearly 20 trade agreements that underpinned the WTO were presented as a set of multilateral rules that would subject both the powerful and the weak to a common set of rules backed by an ef...
Bello: People Pour into Miami
Znet Article, November, 23 2003
Walden Bello
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MIAMI -- The United States will try to paint the Miami meeting of the Free Trade of the Americas (FTAA) as a success, but the reality is that the opponents have pulled off a victory. This was the assessment of movement leaders as thousands of prot...
Bello: Implications of Cancun
Znet Article, September, 23 2003
Walden Bello
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The collapse of the Fifth Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Cancun, Mexico, last Sunday, Sept. 14, was an event of historic proportions. Cancun has several massive implications. First, the collapse represented a victory for ...
Bello: Crisis of the Globalist Project
Znet Article, July, 15 2003
Walden Bello
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(Prepared for the McPlanet Conference, Berlin, June 27, 2002. The original version of this piece will appear in the Fall issue of New Labor Forum.) "Capitalism constantly erodes man and woman's being-in-nature (creature) and being-in-society (cit...
Bello: Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy
Book, October, 15 2002
In this short and trenchant history of those bodies which have promoted this economic globalization, Walden Bello argues for a much more fundamental shift towards a decentralized, pluralistic system of global economic governance.
Bello: Capitalist Crisis And Corporate Crime
Znet Article, August, 07 2002
Walden Bello
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The unraveling of the reputations of firms that were once the toast of Wall Street continues and the end is not in sight. But one thing is certain: already fragile prior to Enron, the legitimacy of global capitalism as the dominant system of produ...
Bello: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Venezuela
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Walden Bello
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The political reality of Venezuela hits me as soon as I arrive, like a blast of Caribbean air at midday. A friendly question triggers a torrent of anti-Chavez denunciations from the young professional serving as my driver from the airport that onl...
Bello: US Military Operations in the Philippines
Znet Article, March, 27 2002
Walden Bello
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I think that the best way to begin is to repeat what Fr. Cirilo Nacorda said two days ago in Lamitan, Basilan, when he thanked the members of the International Peace Mission for "risking their lives" in going to Basilan to look for the truth. My c...
Bello: Porto Alegre Social Summit Sets Stage for Counteroffensive against Globalization
Commentary, February, 02 2002
Walden Bello
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Porto Alegre is not exactly a Third World city. Located in one of BrazilÕs more prosperous states, Rio Grande do Sul, and populated by people mainly of European stock, this city of 1.2 million people is First World when it comes to infrastructure ...
Bello: When Davos Meets Porto Alegre: A Memoir
Commentary, February, 01 2001
Walden Bello
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Porto Alegre, Brazil "Hemingway said that the rich are different from you and me. How can anyone expect the people in Davos to understand the crisis that globalization has visited on the lives of people like those of us here in Porto Alegre?" Tha...
Bello: 2000: The Year of Global Protest against Globalization
Commentary, January, 10 2001
Walden Bello
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The last year will probably go down as one of those defining Êmoments in the history of the world economy, like 1929. Of course, the Êstructures of global capitalism appear to be solid, with many in the global Êelite in Washington, Europe, and Asi...
Bello: MELTZER REPORT ON BRETTON WOODS TWINS BUILDS CASE FOR ABOLITION BUT HESITATESBy
Commentary, April, 16 2000
Walden Bello
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During the heated debate on whether or not to raise the US quota in the IMF in 1998, the US Congress voted for the quota increase but attached several conditions, including the creation of an independent body to look at the missions and performanc...
