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Bello: Labor Trafficking: Modern-day Slave Trade
Znet Article, May, 15 2012
Walden Bello
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The dynamics of global capitalism have reproduced a system of repressive labor globally that is serviced and maintained by legal and illegal labor trafficking
Bello: Syria: Descending Into Civil War
Znet Article, March, 30 2012
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
There is consensus on one thing: for the Syrian people, things will get worse before they get better
Bello: Urgently Needed: Transparency in US-Philippine Relations
Znet Article, February, 17 2012
Walden Bello
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Washington’s two-point agenda in the Philippines is no secret: to contain China’s ascent to power and refocus its war on terror to South East Asia
Bello: Outsourcing and Stagnation in the Real Economy
Znet Article, February, 09 2012
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Apple’s prowess at turning out products that capture the popular imagination has kept it from being tainted with the image of being a labor exporter
Bello: Germany’s Social Democrats and the European Crisis – Analysis
Znet Article, December, 23 2011
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Not only is Germany the strongest economy in Europe; it is also now writing the rules of economic governance
Bello: Seven Billion ... And Rising
Znet Article, November, 10 2011
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The world’s population surpassed 7 billion
Bello: Why Al-Qaeda Won
Znet Article, September, 26 2011
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Ten years after 9/11, the United States is definitely still the premier global power, but it is a much diminished one
Bello: The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention
Znet Article, August, 14 2011
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Is it ever legitimate to supersede the principle of national sovereignty with a military intervention aimed at protecting citizens from their government?
Bello: Second Thoughts on the Chinese Model?
Znet Article, July, 04 2011
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Recently, a growing number of corporate leaders are getting second thoughts about the "Chinese Model"
Bello: Osama's No Martyr, But the Man Prevailed
Znet Article, May, 04 2011
Walden Bello
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In the duel between Washington and Osama, the latter was, at the time of his death, far ahead on points
Bello: The Arab Revolutions And The Democratic Imagination
Znet Article, March, 17 2011
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The Arab democratic uprisings have brought a rush of nostalgia to many people who staged their own democratic revolutions years earlier.
Bello: Sexual Prey in the Saudi Jungle
Znet Article, February, 02 2011
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
He was an officer in the Saudi Royal Navy assigned to the strategic Saudi base of Jubail in the Persian Gulf, and he wanted to hire a maid.
Bello: The Celtic Tiger Follows The Asian Tigers To Extinction
Znet Article, December, 25 2010
Walden Bello
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The financial collapse of Ireland, coming as the latest in a string of disasters, hardly shocks global public opinion. For people engaged in the development debate, however, it is resonant with meaning.
Bello: Lessons of the Obama Debacle
Znet Article, October, 14 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The key problem is the failure of progressives to translate their vision and values into a program that is convincing and connects with the people trapped in the terrible existential conditions created by the global financial crisis.
Bello: Class and Conflict
Znet Article, September, 26 2010
Walden Bello
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Due to the nature of capitalism, we know that there will be increasing class tensions and social conflicts which will grow within Asia even as certain states start to dispute hegemony in West.
Bello: Greece - Same Tragedy, Different Scripts
Znet Article, September, 17 2010
Walden Bello
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Cafes are full in Athens, and droves of tourists still visit the Parthenon and go island-hopping in the fabled Aegean. But beneath the summery surface, there is confusion, anger, and despair as this country is plunged into its worst economic crisi...
Bello: The Political Consequences of Stagnation
Znet Article, September, 11 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Before 9/11/2001, there was 9/11/1973, when Gen. Pinochet toppled the Allende government in Chile and ushered in a 17-year reign of terror. More recently, on 9/15/2008, Lehman Brothers went bust and torpedoed the global economy, turning what had b...
Bello: New economics for a new administration
Znet Article, August, 13 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
A new government in the Philippines offers the country a rare window to fundamentally shift away from failed economic policies, subordinate to neoliberal ideology and the pre-eminance of illegitimate foreign debtors.
Bello: The Problem with Old, Familiar Faces
Znet Article, July, 14 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
With more poor people in the Philippines now than at any other time in history, its time for the new government to break with the old policy of putting foreign debtors and IMF doctrine first.
Bello: The Battle for Thailand
Znet Article, May, 26 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Nearly a week after the event, Thailand is still stunned by the military assault on the Red Shirt encampment in the tourist center of the capital city of Bangkok on May 19. The Thai government is treating captured Red Shirt leaders and militants l...
Bello: The Poverty of Philippine Foreign Policy
Znet Article, May, 22 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
In the past the Philippines foreign policy has been overly submissive to US interests and often failed to promote the country's own interests. As the world increasingly becomes a multipolar environment the country will need to invest more in bring...
Bello: Is Corruption the Cause? The Poverty Trap
Znet Article, May, 20 2010
Walden Bello
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The “corruption-causes-poverty” narrative has become a standard tool in the hegemonic discourse kit for leaders in some developing countries - where in fact, Waldon Bello argues, it is neoliberal economic policies that are really to blame for pove...
Bello: China’s Neo-Colonialism
Znet Article, April, 21 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The new trade pact between China and ASEAN is touted as bringing benefits to both sides, but it is China that stands to gain most from the deal.
Bello: Why fighting corruption is not enough
Znet Article, April, 03 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Corruption is blamed by most Filipinos for its economic quagmire, but it has been neoliberal policies and clean-cut technocrats who have been most responsible for causing poverty.
Bello: China Lassoes its Neighbors
Znet Article, March, 20 2010
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), went into effect on 1st of January this year. For China, the benefits are clear, but Southeast Asia will be paying a big price for a bad deal.
Bello: How hyper-capitalism may hobble the Copenhagen summit
Znet Article, December, 10 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Unless we re-think the export-oriented capitalism that's causing all of our climate problems, the Copenhagen conference will be nothing more than a Band-Aid.
Bello: The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action
Znet Article, November, 28 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action.
Bello: Neoliberalism as Hegemonic Ideology in the Philippines
Znet Article, November, 05 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Paper delivered at the plenary session of the 2009 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society held at the PSSC Building on 16 October 2009
Bello: The Virtues of Deglobalization
Znet Article, October, 23 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even as most poor countri...
Bello: Keynes
Znet Article, July, 29 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Although Keynes’s model of managed capitalism is being widely pursued as a response to the current crisis, it postpones rather than provides a solution to one of capitalism’s central contradictions, which is the underlying cause of the current...
