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Znet Article Bello: Primer on Wall Street Meltdown

Znet Article, October, 09 2008 Walden Bello
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The Wall Street meltdown is not only due to greed and to the lack of government regulation of a hyperactive sector. It stems from the crisis of overproduction that has plagued global capitalism since the mid-seventies, argues Walden Bello.

Znet Article Bello: Toward a new American isolationism

Znet Article, September, 14 2008 Walden Bello
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The Bush administration's imperial and corporate misadventures over the last decade have proven that the world would be much better off without the US interference. China, as the new rising power, should be wary not to replicate the West's old pat...

Znet Article Bello: Derail Doha, Save the Climate

Znet Article, July, 29 2008 Walden Bello
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There’s something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva, which aim at coming up with a new agreement to bring down tariffs in order to expand world trade and resuscitate global growth. In the face of the looming specte...

Znet Article Bello: Destroying African Agriculture

Znet Article, June, 07 2008 Walden Bello
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Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, the more primordial problem has been the conversion...

Znet Article Bello: How to manufacture a global food crisis: lessons from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO

Znet Article, May, 17 2008 Walden Bello
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When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit. Because of US government subsidies, American farmers were devot...

Znet Article Bello: Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?

Znet Article, April, 07 2008 Walden Bello
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There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st century exceeds 2.4 degrees Celsius, changes in the planet's climate will be large-scale, irreversible and disastrous.

Znet Article Bello: Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood

Znet Article, February, 22 2008 Walden Bello
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Skyrocketing oil prices, a falling dollar, and collapsing financial markets are the key ingredients in an economic brew that could end up in more than just an ordinary recession.

Znet Article Bello: Elites vs. Greens in the Global South

Znet Article, January, 22 2008 Walden Bello
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Last month's conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia, brought the North-South fault line in climate politics into sharp relief. While U.S. intransigence on the question of mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions took center stage, not f...

Znet Article Bello: The Asian Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism and Economic Miracles

Znet Article, August, 03 2007 Walden Bello
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Ten years after the Asian financial cataclysm of 1997, the economies of the Western Pacific Rim are growing, though not at the rates they enjoyed before the crisis. The region has been indelibly scarred by the crisis. There is greater poverty, ine...

Znet Article Bello: Military Radicalism in Venezuela: How Relevant for Other Developing Countries?

Znet Article, March, 15 2006 Walden Bello
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“An Army of the People” That something interesting and unusual is taking place in Venezuela first really struck me when, in response to a sarcastic comment about an anti-war meeting of the 2006 World Social Forum taking place in a...

Znet Article Bello: Humanitarian Intervention

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Walden Bello
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(Revised version of a speech delivered at the Conference on Globalization, War, and Intervention sponsored by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, German Chapter, Frankfurt, Germany, January 14-15, 2006.) As war clouds ...

Znet Article Bello: Iraq, the U.S., and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement

Znet Article, March, 20 2005 Walden Bello
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Speech delivered in Vancouver, Canada, at an event sponsored by StopWar.ca, March 18, 2005, held on the occasion of the March 19-20 Global Protest against the War in Iraq. Over the next few days, millions of people throughout the world, from V...

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