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Odyssey of a Revolution

24.09.2026 20

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Walden Bello

The Long Shadow of Osama bin Laden

Social scientists often see the individual as a product of society. But never, never underestimate the impact of personality on society. Or at least,...

11.09.2026 10

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Walden Bello

America at 250: From a Contested Past to a Fascist Future?

When 56 representatives from the 13 colonies signed the Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1776, it was over nearly 300 years since...

10.07.2026 40

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Walden Bello

Desperately Missing Susan

Susan George passed away in February of this year. It is good to have waited this long for the movement to give her a proper send-off, for we have...

07.07.2026 30

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Walden Bello

Capitalism’s Organic Intellectuals

When we were fighting the IMF and World Bank-imposed structural adjustment or austerity programs in the 1980s and 1990s, many of us thought that we...

12.06.2026 50

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The Existential Crisis of Mainstream Economics

In the United States today, life expectancy is falling as suicides, drug addiction, alcoholism, and heart disease are inexorably on the rise, contrary...

30.03.2026 30

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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

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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 60

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Walden Bello

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

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15.03.2026 30

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 50

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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 30

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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 30

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 40

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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 30

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 40

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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 40

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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 30

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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 30

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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 50

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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 40

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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 50

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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 20

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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 30

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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 30

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Walden Bello