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Trump, the Dying Multinational Order and the Global South

In the second year of Donald Trump’s second term, beginning with the kidnaping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 2, 2026, followed...

16.03.2026 6

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Trump, the Dying Multinational Order and the Global South

In the second year of Donald Trump’s second term, beginning with the kidnaping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 2, 2026, followed...

16.03.2026 20

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Trump Has Replaced International Law With the Rule That Might Makes Right

Trump Has Replaced International Law With the Rule That Might Makes Right

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15.03.2026 5

Common Dreams

Walden Bello

Zhou En Lai: Mao’s Man or His Own?

An epic life deserves an epic biography, and Chen Jian provides this for Zhou, who was probably the consummate diplomat of the twentieth century. Chen...

03.02.2026 30

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Imagining the End of Capitalism

Ever since the 1990s, when to the longstanding cooptation of the Western working class by social democracy was added the collapse of the Soviet Union...

27.01.2026 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Imagining The End Of Capitalism – OpEd

Ever since the 1990s, when to the longstanding cooptation of the Western working class by social democracy was added the

24.01.2026 8

Eurasia Review

Walden Bello

Outscooped By Trump: The Strike on Nigeria’s Real Target Was Venezuela

Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro has taught me a lesson: that if you think you have a scoop, you file it immediately, not only to get the story out...

08.01.2026 20

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Out-Scooped By Trump – OpEd

Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro has taught me a lesson: that if you think you have a scoop, you file it

06.01.2026 6

Eurasia Review

Walden Bello

The Dark Side of Trump’s Moon

People are familiar with the Molotov-cocktail throwers of Trump’s MAGA, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laura Loomer, and Steve Bannon. They see on...

23.12.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

China Teaches Japan’s New Leader a Lesson

Two weeks after she asserted that a military threat to Taiwan would spur military intervention by Japan, commentators continue to ask themselves what...

12.12.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Have We Entered a New Feudal Era?

As in capitalism, it is not the cloudalists or the terrestrial capitalists that produce value. The real sources of value are what Varoufakis calls the...

13.11.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Trump and His Asian Vassals

Last week may well go down as the week of humiliation for us in the Asia Pacific. At the beginning of the week, Trump landed in Kuala Lumpur to attend...

06.11.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

France in Crisis: an Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise

In the nine years since its founding in 2016, La France Insoumise (LFI) has become the leading left formation in France, with its current...

29.10.2025 20

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

De-Globalization: Towards the Left or the Right?

In the 1990s, we were told that we were entering an era, known as globalization, that, owing to free trade and unobstructed capital flows in a...

02.10.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Germany’s Die Linke: “We Rose Like a Phoenix From the Ashes”

Janis Ehling is general secretary of Germany’s Die Linke (The Left Party). He oversaw the come-from-behind victory of the party in the elections to...

11.09.2025 20

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Is Another Europe Possible?

"The official rhetoric in Europe is that Russia is the enemy, and that in five years’ time, the Russians will be ready to march on Europe. Now this...

03.09.2025 8

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

The German Question and Europe’s Future

Wolfgang Streeck, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, is in the front ranks of Europe’s social...

25.08.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

The End of Multilaterlism

The recent unilateral strikes by the United States on Iran’s nuclear development sites underline the fact that multilateralism is dead, and has been...

04.07.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Tokugawa Amerika

War movies are not a favored genre in the United States these days. But there are exceptions that make it big in the box office. One is Blackhawk...

25.06.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Tokugawa Amerika – OpEd

War movies are not a favored genre in the United States these days. But there are exceptions that make it

22.06.2025 8

Eurasia Review

Walden Bello

How Can the Global South Fulfill the Promise of Bandung in the 21st Century?

08.05.2025 8

Common Dreams

Walden Bello

Rodrigo Duterte Is at the Hague. What’s Next for the Philippines?

18.03.2025 8

The Nation

Walden Bello

The IMF and World Bank Await Elon Musk

The World Bank’s economists and top administrators are among the highest paid financial functionaries in the world, which explains the reason why...

26.02.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

If DOGE Wants a Worthy Target, It Should Look at the World Bank and IMF

25.02.2025 5

Common Dreams

Walden Bello

The World Bank And IMF Await Elon Musk – OpEd

I think that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been misinformed. I don’t disagree with their

25.02.2025 9

Eurasia Review

Walden Bello

Required Reading: Hillbilly Elegy

I doubt that many progressives in the United States have read J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Being based in the Philippines, a country located on the...

21.01.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Required Reading: Hillbilly Elegy – OpEd

I doubt that many progressives in the United States have read J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Being based in the Philippines, a

18.01.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Walden Bello

How Will Mexico’s New President Deal With Trump, Migration and Drug Cartels?

In June 2024, Mexicans elected a female president, Claudia Sheinbaum to replace Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Arguably, Mexico is Washington’s most...

06.01.2025 10

CounterPunch

Walden Bello

Jimmy Carter’s Life Is Not Ending in Failure – OpEd

By Jonathan Power The lives of all politicians end in failure”. So said Enoch Powell, a maverick former cabinet minister in the British government....

03.01.2025 9

Eurasia Review

Walden Bello

How Will Mexico’s New President Deal With Trump, Migration, And Drug Cartels? – Interview

In June 2024, Mexicans elected a female president, Claudia Sheinbaum to replace Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Arguably, Mexico is Washington’s most...

03.01.2025 7

Eurasia Review

Walden Bello