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Znet Article Bello: The day after...

Znet Article, December, 24 2007 Walden Bello
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The single-minded focus on getting Washington on board at the UN climate conference in Bali resulted in the lack of firm targets for reducing emissions.

Znet Article Bello: The Environmental Movement in the Global South:

Znet Article, October, 13 2007 Walden Bello
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The Environmental Movement in the Global South:

Znet Article Bello: The post-Washington dissensus

Znet Article, September, 28 2007 Walden Bello
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"[World] Bank researchers have...done extremely visible work on globalization, on aid effectiveness, and on growth and poverty. In many ways, they have been the leaders in these issues. But the panel had substantial criticisms of the way that the ...

Znet Article Bello: All Fall Down: Ten Years After The Asian Financial Crisis

Znet Article, August, 13 2007 Walden Bello
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All Fall Down: Ten Years After The Asian Financial Crisis

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: Climate Change Flap At The G8

Znet Article, June, 07 2007 Walden Bello
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The headlines in the lead-up to the Group of Eigh...

Znet Article Bello: The World Social Forum at the Crossroads

Znet Article, May, 08 2007 Walden Bello
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A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was reached with the inauguration of...

Znet Article Bello: Free Trade vs. Small Farmers

Znet Article, May, 02 2007 Walden Bello
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Free Trade vs. Small Farmers

Znet Article Bello: Americans want a new direction, but will Democrats lead?

Znet Article, December, 03 2006 Walden Bello
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The recent US election was a redemptive election. At a time that many throughout the world had written off the American electorate as lifeless putty in the hands of Karl Rove, it woke up to deliver the Republican Party its worse blow in the la...

Znet Article Bello: Eye of the Hurricane: Milton Friedman and the Global South

Znet Article, November, 27 2006 Walden Bello
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While economists laud the recently deceased Milton Friedman for being “a champion of freedom whose work transformed economics and changed the world,” as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times put it, people in the South wi...

Znet Article Bello: Chain-Gang Economics

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Walden Bello
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“The world is investing too little,” according to one prominent economist. “The current situation has its roots in a series of crises over the last decade that were caused by excessive investment, such as the Japanese asset...

Znet Article Bello: Microcredit, Macro Issues

Znet Article, October, 21 2006 Walden Bello
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The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, regarded as the father of microcredit, comes at a time when microcredit has become something like a religion to many of the powerful, rich and famous. Hillary Clinton regularly speaks about ...

Znet Article Bello: A Siamese Tragedy

Znet Article, October, 03 2006 Walden Bello
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A Siamese Tragedy

Znet Article Bello: A Bittersweet Day

Znet Article, August, 20 2006 Walden Bello
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Beirut - The bittersweet mood in Beirut on this day when the ceasefire took effect was perhaps best expressed by Rahul, a taxi driver, who tells me, "We won, but at what cost? So many people displaced, so many dead, so many buildings destroyed." ...

Znet Article Bello: Critics Plan Offensive as IMF-World Bank Crisis Deepens

Znet Article, May, 05 2006 Walden Bello
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Washington, DC, April 24. The spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund took place this weekend with police barricades ringing the two institutions at the heart of Washington, DC. There were almost no protesters in sight. ...

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: The Perfect Storm

Znet Article, July, 02 2005 Walden Bello
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It was on the second day that I got the sense that things were coming together in a way akin to that whereby several climatic disturbances fuse to create what meteorologists have called the “perfect storm.”   It was probably the co...

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...

Znet Article Bello: Desperate Martians Now Wooing Venusians

Znet Article, March, 05 2005 Walden Bello
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Desperate Martians Now Wooing Venusians

Znet Article Bello: Under a Death Sentence

Znet Article, December, 09 2004 Walden Bello
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With the death of Yasser Arafat, the leadership of the Palestinian movement has been thrown wide open. While the central question is who will replace Arafat as the president of the Palestinian Authority, a related question is whether the Palestine...

Znet Article Bello: Liberals and Progressives

Znet Article, December, 09 2004 Walden Bello
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For some people o­n the left in the US, the Bush reelection was a speed bump, something that slows you down but doesn’t stop you. Shortly before President George W. Bush’s trip to Santiago, Chile, to attend the APEC Summit, some 20...

Znet Article Bello: Liberals and Progressives

Znet Article, December, 09 2004 Walden Bello
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For some people o­n the left in the US, the Bush reelection was a speed bump, something that slows you down but doesn’t stop you. Shortly before President George W. Bush’s trip to Santiago, Chile, to attend the APEC Summit, some 20...

Znet Article Bello: The Republican Right's Challenge to the Global Peace Movement

Znet Article, November, 16 2004 Walden Bello
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There continue to be credible allegations of fraud, particularly in the vote count in the state of Ohio, but most of the United States, including the Democratic Party, has recognized that George W. Bush has been reelected to the presidency with a ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

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