A Memoir Of Murder In The Philippines – Book Review
Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country is not an easy read. An account of genocide is
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Author: Walden Bello
FPIF commentator Walden Bello is Co-Chair of the Board of Focus on the Global South and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is a prominent voice pushing for the demilitarization and denuclearization of the South China Sea.
Articles by Walden Bello :
Unjust War And A Just Peace – OpEd
The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and
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Gorbachev Rode The Tiger And Ended Up Inside It – OpEd
So what are we to say about Mikhail Gorbachev, who passed away on August 30? For one, the late Soviet
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Richard Falk’s ‘Public Intellectual: The Life Of A Citizen Pilgrim’ – Book Review
Richard Falk is universally regarded as one of the top minds when it comes to international law. Yet his views
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Why Biden Might Not Be Able To Extricate US From Middle East Quagmire – OpEd
Next September, when the last C-130 cargo aircraft and Chinook transport helicopters take off from the infamous Bagram Air Force
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Osama’s Ghost: The Economics Of Overextension – OpEd
The first part of our assessment of Washington’s 20 years of continuous war in the Middle East focused on its military and
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America Has Entered The Weimar Era – OpEd
By mid-February 2021, American deaths from COVID-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By
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Biden Presidency: A New Era, Or A Fragile Interregnum? – OpEd
Donald Trump embarked on an unorthodox course in economic policy that combined tax cuts for the rich with a protectionist
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Duterte Does The Right Thing For A Change – OpEd
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s termination of a key military pact with the United States, the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), which
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How Obama’s Legacy Lost The Elections For Hillary – Analysis
If there’s one certainty that emerged in the 2016 elections, it was that Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat stemmed from her
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